Weeknotes 2024-02-12

Feb. 12, 2024

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE I'VE ALREADY BEEN ON THE FEDIVERSE FOR A YEAR. ONLY 999 TO GO UNTIL MY DISTRESS SIGNAL REACHES OMICRON PERSEI 8. --LRRR

Normal work week. Still wasn't able to do anything besides work.

Articles

Python 3.13.0 alpha 3 is now available
Announcing the Deputy Developer in Residence and the Supporting Developer in Residence

PSF paid Python developers += 2
Neapolitan 24.2 release
PGTune

Tune your postgres configuration parameters
Django Issue - Improving contrib.auth

Detailed discussion of the options. Context: Historically (and currently, still) the Django documentation recommends using a custom user model. Lately, opinions on whether this recommendation is correct are starting to shift.
Wagtail 6.0 release notes
FRITTer - Frame-Rate IndependenT TimEr tRee

Really cool project!