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24 Dec 2025

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From Bootcamp to Project Manager - Keanya Phelps

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24 Dec 2025 6:00pm GMT

My 2026 year in review

As I prepared this post I realised I a lot more had happened this year than I thought, so without further a do here are the highlights I remember.

The new year started strong with me achieving my goal of writing a blog post every week day for a year. Since then I have scaled it back to approxmiately weekly, but there have been longer gaps over holidays or when worked was a bit too busy. It was a definite bonus to get 9 of my articles featured in Django News this year! The other content production I have been doing this year is a short podcast called "In Progress" which is a public-ish show about what I am working on week to week, I do plan to make this public at some point!

My big focus this year has been building an initial build for a startup I am co-founding. It's in the financial services space and I have a deadline for the end of January 2026. It's taken much longer than I would have liked, partly due to the table stakes features that were required, partly due to only being able to work part-time on it for most the year. Context switching between this and other client work/projects is a killer for productivity. However a win was moving to working mostly full-time from September and the pace certainly picked up then. The other contributing factor is LLM and agents finally clicking for me in my workflow. I don't think I would be as far in the build if it hadn't worked out for me.

On the topic of AI, I see it as a useful tool that has enabled me to ship some ideas and products much quicker as a solo developer than previously. django-deadcode is an example of this. Additionally plenty of features in the startup and some client projects. My general view is that the human work has shifted left towards the product understanding and those that understand that along with technical knowledge are benefitting right now. That said I'm not sure the current technological approach is sustainable so I am personally ready to switch back to the 'old' way or use a local model to continue using an LLM.

Django continued to be a large focus for my free time this year. I attended DjangoCon Europe for the second time and it was great to meet the community especially after interacting with folks online for so long over the last couple of years, there was a lot of fun to be had and I plucked up the courage to give a lighting talk about my 100 words goal and my startup sponsored the conference which was cool. Django Social's in Cambridge continued but at slightly slower pace mostly down to me forgetting to organise a date each month! In the online world, I now chair the Online Community Working Group and have become an admin on the Discord server. Finally I shipped a couple of packages, the previously mentioned django-deadcode was an AI experiment to see how much Claude could do before I even had to clone the repo locally (turns out a lot!). Second was finally pushing django-prodserver over the start line. I say start line as there is plenty of more work to do for this package and perhaps a merge into core Django?

The final piece of work life is I shipped the latest feature of Comfort Monitor Live, yay! However lost the 2 paying customers I had. I would like to round off the product at some point (1 more feature left), but it's currently on pause as my focus is on the items I have already mentioned in this post.

Finally there was a good amount of personal highlights, we upgrade to an electric cargo bike this year which has been lovely and I got a new single speed after the one I built was declared unsafe to ride after a service. Our holiday to the USA was some well needed rest along with fun on various camping trips (with family and with Cub Scouts). There were a few weddings this year and plenty of socials with friends old and new. On the subject of Cub Scouts it was great awarding several of the Cubs leaving with the highest award they can achieve, the Silver Chief Scout Award, it has taken us a few years to get organised, but it lovely to see them work hard and be rewarded for it.

So with the busy year almost done (just Christmas and 2 year old birthday to celebrate), I will see you all next year. Enjoy your Christmas and the celebration of our Saviour being born! (or however you celebrate!)

24 Dec 2025 6:00am GMT

19 Dec 2025

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Django News - New Django Software Foundation Board and Year-End Fundraiser - Dec 19th 2025

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Hitting the Home Stretch: Help Us Reach the Django Software Foundation's Year-End Goal!

Django Software Foundation requests year-end donations to close a $300,000 fundraising goal, supporting an expanded Fellows program, security work, releases, and community events.

djangoproject.com

Introducing the 2026 DSF Board

Django Software Foundation announced the 2026 board and officers, welcomed the newly elected directors, thanked the outgoing members, and linked the board minutes and contact information.

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DjangoCon US 2026 CFP is open!

DjangoCon US 2026 will take place September 14-18 in Chicago (talks September 14-16, sprints September 17-18), and the Call for Proposals is open now with a submission deadline of March 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM CDT.

pretalx.com

PEP 8107 - 2026 Term Steering Council election

The results of the 2026 Python Steering Council election were published in PEP 8107, and the five winners are Pablo Galindo Salgado, Savannah Ostrowski, Barry Warsaw, Donghee Na, and Thomas Wouters. Congratulations to all of them on being elected to guide Python's development for the coming term.

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Releases

Python 3.15.0 alpha 3

Python 3.15.0 alpha 3 is now available as an early developer preview, highlighting features like a new statistical sampling profiler, UTF-8 as the default encoding, a new PyBytesWriter C API, and improved error messages, with more changes planned before beta in May 2026.

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Djangonaut Space News

Finding opportunities to contribute to Django

Djangonaut Space proposes creating a clear, welcoming "map" of the Django ecosystem to help newcomers discover meaningful ways to contribute, while encouraging projects to improve onboarding and contributor pathways.

djangonaut.space

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors.

News in Django 6.1:

The new UUID4 and UUID7 database functions were added.
GeneratedField now supports stored columns (db_persist set to True) on Oracle 23ai/26ai (23.7+).

A special mention goes to the new contributors from last weeks: congratulations to Dmitry Chestnykh, Rida Zouga, Krishna Chaitanya, Hwayoung Cha 🚀, Νικόλαος-Διγενής Καραγιάννης, and Rim Choi 🚀 for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

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Articles

ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server

ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.

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Dependency groups and uv run

Simon Willison explains a clean uv-based workflow using PEP 735 dependency groups, especially a dev group, to make Python projects instantly runnable and testable with uv run without manual virtual environment setup.

simonwillison.net

Rich text editors: How restrictive can we be?

django-prose-editor evolved from strict schemas to TextClass, NodeClass, and ClassLoom extensions to provide controlled, combinable CSS class styling while preserving safety.

406.ch

My first win building with agents

Facundo Olano shares how he successfully shipped a minimal Django web app almost entirely with agentic coding, outlining a pragmatic, test-driven workflow that treats AI as a junior collaborator rather than a replacement for experienced Django judgment.

olano.dev

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

Simon Willison argues that in an era of AI-assisted development, a developer's real responsibility is not producing large amounts of code but delivering changes that are demonstrably proven to work through clear manual testing and solid automated tests.

simonwillison.net

Will Vincent's Year in Review (2025)

Will Vincent (Django News co-founder) reflects on 2025, covering his move to JetBrains as a Python Developer Advocate, conference talks and travel, major book and LearnDjango updates, a prolific year of blogging, podcasting, and newsletters, and his plans to focus more on video and Django 6.0 updates in 2026.

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Kevin Renskers's 2025 in review

A reflective and productive year marked by personal upheaval, record-setting writing output, meaningful open source work, cautious AI adoption, and a growing emphasis on sustainability, focus, and choosing where limited time and energy truly matter.

loopwerk.io

Tutorials

🚀 How To Deploy Django 6 On Ubuntu VPS

Step-by-step production-ready guide showing how to deploy Django 6 on Ubuntu VPS using Gunicorn, Nginx, optional PostgreSQL, systemd, Certbot, and security hardening.

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Django Job Board

Here are this week's Django job highlights, spanning fully remote UK roles, US based security and platform work, and senior engineering positions, plus a quick reminder that Django News Jobs has rebranded as the Django Job Board at https://djangojobboard.com.

Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue 🆕

Python/Django Senior Application Security Engineer at Energy Solutions

Python / Django Developer at Client of Foxley Talent

Staff Software Engineer at Bluebird Kids Health

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