Tim Schilling

I wrote up a post from my appearance on "Elephant in the room" with @kjaymiller and @aiven_io. If you are interested in faking/anonymizing data in your staging/dev environments, give it a look and let us know what you think! #Django #Postgres better-simple.com/django/2026/03…

If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output. better-simple.com/django/2026/03… #Django #Python #OpenSource

After more than 10 years, Jazzband is sunsetting. Thank you to the 3,135 members who were part of this. jazzband.co/news/2026/03/1…

I'm super excited (and nervous) to present alongside my friend Rachell Calhoun to talk about one of our favorite things, @djangonautspace! If you're interested in making contributing to open-source more sustainable and more diverse, please find us that week! #PyConUS

I recently read "The Road Less Stupid" and despite the abrasive title, it was a good business book. I've covered about 3 of the 40+ chapters in my review, and even then it's only a fragment of the book. better-simple.com/book-reports/2…

Today's #LunchTalk is @ipmb's @djangocon talk, “High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks”. better-simple.com/lunch-talks/20… You should watch this if you are interested in: - Scaling your Django application - DevOps for Django applications #Django #DevOps

I loved doing this episode for the Django Chat Podcast! 💜💜💜 youtu.be/iAWYYj3uOvg?si…

Over the last few weeks, I focused on removing overhead from the request hot path in Django Bolt. The results from v0.6.4 → v0.7.0 are honestly better than I expected. I remember when I put 60k RPS in GitHub README because that was the maximum I was able to get from this. 1.

AI just spoiled the complete objective behind open source development. The rise in number of spam PRs in django we have this year during the GSoC period is actually concerning. Please don’t do this.

Normalize NOT spamming the crap out of Open Source projects with low quality PRs. It's not a good look. It is not going to help you become a meaningful contributor and if your professor is encouraging you to do it, send them to me.

I decided to write down how I've managed to find #mentorship without a mentor and it ballooned up on me. Surprise, surprise! I'm still working on the other parts, but I've got my thoughts down on finding #career guidance. better-simple.com/career/2026/03…

@josevalim This was a great article, I appreciate the nuance. Nicely done José!

Read the article here: dashbit.co/blog/type-syst… Spoiler alert: it is not about which is better, static or dynamic, but rather an attempt to shine a light on the underlying trade-offs. I'm under no illusion I will change anyone's mind on this topic.

Most people treat the static vs dynamic debate as a foregone conclusion, but in practice type systems restrict the expressive power of programming languages in ways that leak complexity to developers. New article: Type systems are leaky abstractions — the case of Map.take!/2

This is pretty cool! speedpy.com from @KostjaPalovic It's a #Django SaaS boilerplate project. There's some good stuff in there.

Continuing my #LunchTalks suggestions, today's is Colleen Dunlap's DjangoCon US talk, "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful... Django Unit Tests" Consider watching this if you'd like to quickly learn the important aspects of testing better-simple.com/lunch-talks/20… #Django #Testing #Python

Happy Reading Thursday! 🪁 TSBT #59 is live: "A Thousand Times Over." This AI special features: 🤖 Real-world AI experiments 🏥 A surgeon’s tips for fixing AI disasters 📈 Staying ahead of the curve Plus, why The Kite Runner is the soul of it all. 👇 veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt59-a-tho…

@tushar5526 I really need to set up tailscale on my servers

Here's the link to my poorly written blog if you are interested: tushar5526.github.io/blog/breakinin… It's fun to be able to solve actual problems and save some 💸 :p

Cost @Apple a few bucks on a bachelor’s trip 😅 My friends hid my phone as a prank, which somehow turned into a full-on convo about @immichapp that I self-host and use for backing up my photos! A few of them have already cancelled their iCloud subscription, OSS FTW 🚀

February's DSF member of the month is Baptiste Mispelon! Baptiste is part of the Django Ops team and has contributed to django core. He also co-created the Django Under the Hood conference💡 Learn more about Baptiste here! djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/fe… #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

Lynn Root gave a wonderful keynote last year at PyCon US. If you're looking to learn more about the importance of play while eating lunch this week, give it a watch. better-simple.com/lunch-talks/20… #LunchTalks

@kjaymiller and I are talking about PostgreSQL Anonymizer and Django tomorrow at 2pm UTC / 9am Eastern. youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLz4M… Please come join and ask questions! #Django #Postgresql