🔗 Links

• Foxley Talent
• Foxley Talent YouTube
• People or Code show on YouTube and Spotify

📚 Books

• The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
• The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle [Carlton]
• The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and Jon Mann

📦 Projects

• FarhanAliRaza/prongs — run just the tests you edited
• justinmayer/django-benchmark - Django performance benchmark profiler

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🔗 Links

• Django on the Med
• New technical governance approved (DEP 19)
• Executive director search extended
• DjangoCon Europe 2027 (Innsbruck, Austria)
• django-bgt
• django-benchmark
• Open DEPs pull requests from Django on the Med

📚 Books

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
• The Wall by Marlen Hausofer

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🔗 Links

• 2026 Django Developers Survey Results
• Django 6.1 release notes
• Talk Python #446: Updates on Django's Async Story with Carlton
• Choose Boring Technology

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🔗 Links

• La Suite numérique on GitHub
• La Suite website
• Samuel on LinkedIn
• TechEmpower Benchmarks being sunsetted

📦 Projects

• django-live-translations
• django-bolt
• TechEmpower Benchmarks

📚 Books

• The Mikado Method
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• A Confederacy of Dunces

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• Universal Principles of Typography by Elliot Jay Stocks

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• EuroPython 2026 website
• Mia’s personal website and podcast, Behind the Commit
• A Year on the EuroPython Society Board by Mia
• EuroPython 2025 in Prague Recap by Will
• Mia on LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSky
• Behind the Commit on YouTube

📚 Books

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• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
• Hands on Rust by Herbert Wolverson

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• 30% off PyCharm, 100% to Django promo
• REVSYS website
• Django News Newsletter new website
• Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20)
• Django on the Med - September 23rd to 25th in Pescara, Italy
• DSF Board Member Minutes Website
• Air: Agentic Development Environment

📦 Projects

• The Fixi Project
• Pydantic AI and CodexBar
• Zuban type checker and LSP

📚 Books

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• The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever by Jessie Sima and Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

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🔗 Links

• django-tasks and Jake's GitHub
• Jake's personal website
• DSF Member of the Month - Jake Howard
• DjangoCon Europe 2024: Empowering Django with Background Workers
• Django Forum - Steering Council Vote on Background Tasks
• PyCon UK 2025 Talk: Halt and Catch Fire: Forcefully Stopping Python
• Wagtail new security announcements channel
• Django new features repo
• Carlton’s Talk at PyTV on Mantle

📦 Projects

• microgpt
• Django-Mantle
• Django-Mantle-DRF

📚 Books

• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon by Jenny Chase
• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

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