We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it. —Jean-Claude Juncker

Bit of a travel-heavy week. I flew back from Athens on Monday after DjangoCon Europe, then was off again on Tuesday morning—this time on the train to Brussels for a few days on-site. Spent the rest of the working week there, which was no hardship: the food was excellent, the beer was better, and the weather actually cooperated for once.

Got home Friday evening, and the weekend wasn't exactly quiet either: Saturday and Sunday I was at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, which traditionally piggybacks on beyond tellerrand—usually the weekend right before or right after. This year it was right before. Really nice to see that crowd again.

Open Source

Despite all the travel, I managed to ship a few small things:

• Brought my django-indieweb package back into shape. It was overdue for some attention and IndieWebCamp was the perfect excuse.
• Cut a new release of django-cast.
• Fixed an issue in kptncook and pushed a new release while I was at it.

And because I clearly don't have enough side projects, I also started a small benchmark repo for local LLMs. The main question I'm after: which backend is actually faster (or slower) on which hardware? Primary focus is Apple Silicon, but I'm also curious about smaller GPUs you can pick up cheaply. Very early days—but local models are getting noticeably better and more interesting at the moment, and it feels worth tracking properly.

Articles

• Grid Security at Scale: How TenneT Built a 10× Faster Analysis Platform on PowSyBl (LF Energy) | TenneT got a 10× speedup on grid security analysis by building ReFlow on top of the open-source PowSyBl framework. Always nice to see a big TSO lean into open source for the load-bearing stuff.

Software

• p5.js | Friendly JavaScript library for creative coding—low barrier to entry, surprisingly capable. Tempted to use it for some weekend hacking.