14 Nov 2025
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
Django News - PyCharm 30% Promotion Extended! - Nov 14th 2025
News
Support the Django Software Foundation by buying PyCharm at a 30% Discount
The Django Software Foundation's primary fundraiser has been extended, so you can get 30 percent off PyCharm Pro and support Django until November 19.
Call for Proposals for DjangoCon US 2026 Website!
DjangoCon US 2026 requests proposals to redesign branding, illustrations, and the 11ty and Tailwind website for Chicago, including swag, signage, and starter code.
"Boost Your GitHub DX" out now
Boost Your GitHub DX by Adam Johnson provides practical guidance on GitHub features, gh CLI, and Actions to streamline collaboration and speed software delivery.
Django Software Foundation
Five ways to discover Django packages
New Django ecosystem page plus resources like State of Django survey, Django Packages, Awesome Django, Reddit and newsletters help developers discover third-party Django packages.
Django at PyCon FR 2025
Highlights from PyCon France where 27 contributors joined together in sprints, discussions of Django's direction, htmx presentations, and more.
Python Software Foundation
Trusted Publishing is popular, now for GitLab Self-Managed and Organizations
Django projects can now use PyPI Trusted Publishing to securely publish packages, with GitLab Self Managed beta support and organization pending publishers.
Updates to Django
Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Hal Blackburn, Mehraz Hossain Rumman, and Harsh Jain for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Fixed a bug in Django 5.2 where proxy models having a CompositePrimaryKey incorrectly raised a models.E042 system check error.
Refactored async code to use asyncio.TaskGroup for cleaner, modern concurrency management. Thank you for the hard work on this. 🎉
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Articles
Django Admin Deux: Bringing Django's Admin Back to Django
Django Admin Deux is a proof of concept admin built on Django generic class-based views, plugin-first architecture, and action-based CRUD.
Preserving referential integrity with JSON fields and Django
Adds referential integrity for model references stored in JSONField within Django by registering model links and enforcing on_delete protection using django-json-schema-editor.
Django-Tailwind v4.4: Now with Zero Node.js Setup via Standalone Tailwind CLI
Django-Tailwind 4.4 adds support for Tailwind's Standalone CLI via pytailwindcss, enabling Tailwind CSS workflows without requiring Node.js, and integrates it into manage.py.
django-deadcode: idea to release in under 2 hours
django-deadcode was prototyped and published in about two hours using Agent OS and Claude to analyze Django projects for removable dead code.
Django Fellow Report
Django Fellow Report - Natalia
A very security-heavy week . Most of my energy went into preparing and testing patches for the upcoming security release, including a tough vulnerability that I spent quite some time wrestling with. It was demanding and a bit exhausting, but everything is now on track for next week's release.
Django Fellow Report - Jacob
This week we landed the JSONNull expression I mentioned last week. We also landed a follow-up to the database delete behavior feature to add support in inspectdb.
Events
Behind the Curtain as a Conference Chair
Chairing DjangoCon US 2025 taught that effective leadership means creating and holding welcoming spaces for community, volunteers, and speakers to collaborate and thrive.
Videos
PyBay 2025 - YouTube
PyBay 2025 features talks on Python tooling, robust testing, typing, async performance, LLM integration, and data validation relevant to Django backends.
The future of Python and AI with Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum discusses Python's role in the AI era, TypeAgent and typing tools like Pyright, and AI coding workflows with VS Code and Copilot. There are some nice Django and DjangoCon US shoutouts here.
Podcasts
Django Chat #189: Django 20 Years Later with Adrian Holovaty
Adrian finally agreed to come on the podcast! This episode was so much fun to record. Adrian is one of the original creators of Django and we discussed everything from initial design decisions with twenty years of hindsight, why modern JavaScript is so complicated, coding with LLMs, and much more.
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Django Forum
DEP 15 - Improved startproject interface - Django Internals
DEP 15 standardizes and extends startproject to support multiple modern project layouts while preserving backwards compatibility and encouraging consistent, opinionated project structures.
Projects
stuartmaxwell/djcheckup
DJ Checkup is a security scanner for Django sites. This package provides a command-line interface to run the security checks against your Django site.
wsvincent/djangoforai
Django + local LLM + server side events + HTMX demo. As presented during DjangoCon US 2025 talk.
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14 Nov 2025 5:00pm GMT
13 Nov 2025
Django community aggregator: Community blog posts
django-deadcode: idea to release in under 2 hours
A few weeks ago I noticed a toot from Jeff Triplett about Anthrophic releasing Claude Code for the Web. This was the final spark that coalesced a few different thoughts that had been lingering in the back of my head, some of I have written a bit about before. The first thought was the speed of prototyping that agentic AI enables. Essentially ideas or tasks can simply be executed rather than being written down and the time allocated to develop these ideas go from weeks to days or even hours. The second thought is related to the first in that tools like Agent OS allows for AI to build out products in a more reliable way for the most part. I have also been pondering how I can use my mobile more as an engineer, the Github app is ok for PR reviews, but to date building anything needs a larger screen.
The final thought goes back to the toot from Jeff and Claude Code on the being possibly the cloest thing so far to my post from day 282 about how our tooling doesn't yet fully leverage what AI can do for us.
Well this led to me creating two things this week. First was a template repo on Github which is only loaded with an install of my Django Agent OS profile. This enables me to quickly start a project in the browser without having to open a terminal or potentially even be at my laptop, I could start a project from my phone. Second was an experiment to see how much I could get Claude to build from the browser. I took my idea from Day 71 about analysing a Django codebase for dead code that could be removed. Over the course of about 2 hours of my time and letting Claude along with Agent OS, I have a package released on PyPI.
The unlock here is that I have yet to clone the repo to my laptop. In fact, the most time consuming part has been getting CI to work nicely to release new versions. Upon reflection this is something to go into the template repository, but then not every project needs to be uploaded to PyPI.
It's been a fun experiment to get a working proof of concept out the door so quickly, but it needs a bit more refinement, testing and review before I recommend anyone else use it! If you want to have a peak, the repo is here and package is here
13 Nov 2025 6:00am GMT
Python Leiden (NL) meetup summaries
My summaries from the sixth Python meetup in Leiden (NL).
Python and MongoDB, a perfect marriage - Mathijs Gaastra
His first experience with Mongodb was when he had to build a patient data warehouse based on literature. He started with postgres, but the fixed table structure was very limiting. Mongodb was much more flexible.
Postgres is a relational database, Mongodb is a document database. Relational: tables, clearly defined relationships and a pre-defined structure. Document/nosql: documents, flexible relationships and a flexible structure.
Nosql/document databases can scale horizontally. Multiple servers, connected. Relational databases have different scaling mechanisms.
Why is mongo such a nice combination with python?
- The PyMongo package is great and has a simple syntax.
- It is easily scalable
- Documents are in BSON format ("binary json") which is simple to use and pretty efficient.
He showed example python code, comparing a mysql example with a Mongodb version. The Mongodb version did indeed look simpler.
The advantage of Mongodb (the freedom) also is its drawback: you need to do your own validation and your own housekeeping, otherwise your data slowly becomes unusable.
Mathijs is now only using Mongodb, mostly because of the speed of development he enjoys with it.
Identifying "blast beats" in music using Python - Lino Mediavilla
He showed a couple of videos of drummers. Some with and some without "blast beats". In metal (if I understood correctly) it means both a lot of base drum, but essentially also a "machine gun" on tne snare drum. He likes this kind of music a lot, so he wanted to analize it programmatically
He used the demucs library for his blast beat counter project. Demucs separates different instruments out of a piece of music.
With fourier transforms, he could analyse the frequencies. Individual drum sounds (snare drum hit, base drum hit) were analysed this way.
With the analysed frequency bits, they could recognise them in a piece of music and count occurrences and pick out the blast beats. He had some nice visualisations, too.
He was asked to analyze "never gonna give you up" from Rick Ashley :-) Downloading it from youtube, separating out the drums, ananlysing it, visualising it: it worked! Nice: live demo. (Of course there were no blast beats in the song.)
Deploying Python apps on your own infra with Github actions - Michiel Beijen
Live demo time again! He build a quick jekyll site (static site generator) and he's got a small hetzner server. Just a bit of apache config and he's got an empty directory that's being hosted on a domainname. He quickly did this by hand.
Next he added his simple code to a git repo and uploaded it to github.
A nice trick for Github actions are self hosted runners. They're easy to install, just follow the instructions on Github.
The runner can then run what's in your github's action, like "generate files with jekyll and store them in the right local folder on the server".
The runner runs on your server, running your code: a much nicer solution than giving your ssh key to Github and having it log into your server. You also can use it on some local computer without an external address: the runner will poll Github instead of it being Github that sends you messages.
The auto-deploy worked. And while he was busy with his demo, two PRs with changes to the static website had already been created by other participants. He merged them and the site was indeed updated right away.
13 Nov 2025 5:00am GMT