fidzu : django

Why syndication feeds are having a moment in 2026.

27 May 2026 9:57pm GMT

Over the last couple of weeks, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has started for 2026, I think along side my mentee, I will blog about it as we progress through the project. So far, there has been a kick-off meeting with all participants and I have started to chat with my mentee (Praful) about the first steps of our project - Experimental Flags. he has posted to the Forum about the project, asking for feedback on what we want from the project.

Before I say anymore, please go and pitch your opinion and any ideas you may have, the more we have to work with the better! We need you!

What set's this project apart from GSoC projects in recent years is that we have yet to have an agreed solution in place that 'just' needs implementing. So my initial guide will be to focus on consensus gathering and documentation. But being a GSoC project with a limited time availabilty, I do feel the need to push the process forward at a pace for consensus that is faster than the normal Django pace. That said, the potential for this project is wide and expansive, currently with a lot of open questions both as to why we need them and what should be implemented and that's before we get to the details of how to implement this.

So for me, the why of experimental feature flags most things can be done or can be experimented with as a third-party package. I think the requirement for an experimental feature flag is perhaps for that last 10% of a new API, or where you need where getting higher usage of a feature is required to flesh out all of the use cases with a wider audience, this audience is beyond that of the community. If we think of the adoption curve we're talking about the early majority, those developers who are more likely to enable a feature inside Django, with it's stablilty guarantees, than a third-party package. Or perhaps this is the project which allows us as a community to get more flexible with what in the release package(s?) of Django and what code is in the source control repository?

One thing is for sure, I do want to ensure Praful isn't completely stuck so we will be experimenting with these ideas in a third-party package while we build consensus and then perhaps dogfood the process with our this package once consensus has been reached!

Again, go to the Forum and make your opinion known!

27 May 2026 5:00am GMT

You can find plenty of articles about design - where and how to use SQL, NoSQL, message queues, Redis, VMs, and so on. Almost nobody writes about tactics: the actual coding. It borders on style, but it isn't just style. This is the first article in a series on tactics I use day to day. Highly opinionated - I don't expect you to follow it. Look, chuckle, think about it, and use what you like.

26 May 2026 8:00pm GMT