fidzu : django

I once needed the SLA for an endpoint my dashboard leaned on, so I asked the team that owned it. Their lead came back with 200ms ± 500ms. Read that literally and the fastest responses arrive 300ms before the request is even sent. The number wasn't malicious - it came straight out of the standard formulas. The formulas were wrong for the data, and that mistake is everywhere.

30 Jun 2026 10:00am GMT

Maintaining a mature, reasonably-popular Django open-source is boring. Here I explore using a LLM to automate away some of the boring work.

28 Jun 2026 3:00am GMT

I recently attended my first PG Data 2026 conference where keynote speaker Robert Haas delivered a talk that has stayed with me. His keynote focused on the people behind PostgreSQL, the growing challenges of sustaining open-source communities, and the urgent need to cultivate new contributors through mentorship and community engagement. While his remarks centered on PostgreSQL, they sparked broader reflections for me about the future of open source and communities like Django.

26 Jun 2026 7:00pm GMT