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

• Django: Join the community on Mastodon | Just do it
• If What We Made Were Real | Hmm...
• foam - all about photography | cool magazine

Software

• 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!

Weeknotes

• Week in Review 2024-02-05 | Luis
• Weeklog for Week 5: January 29 to February 04 | Johannes
• Weeknotes: a Datasette release, an LLM release and a bunch of new plugins | Simon Willison

Videos

• Postgres Performance: From Slow to Pro with Elizabeth Christensen | Great talk!

Lectures

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics | Ah, didn't know there was a website!

Podcasts

• New Podcast: Hidden Figures of Python | Welcome!
• UUID vs Bigint Battle!!! (Scaling PostgreSQL) | Except when forced to use client generated IDs, I use bigint.

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