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Carlton Gibson

carlton@chaos.social

<p>Veteran software engineer and open source juggler 🤹 Last optimist in town.</p><p>I mostly work on and with the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Django" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Django</span></a> web framework. I&#39;ve been using it forever, maintain a package or two, am a former Django Fellow and Django’s Security Team member and am on the 6.x Steering Council.</p><p>Other than that, it’s parenting, cooking, and philosophy. He/him</p>

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    Paul Krugman hoy: &gt; I’ve been looking at a 2012 report from the UN, their climate project, that very clearly forecast growing incidents of extreme weather, extreme heatwaves, storms, flooding, and by implication, at least, wildfires. This was clearly in the cards. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time

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    Perhaps all those folk who never do updates weren’t wrong 🤔

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    How I approach decoupling business logic from the Django ORM. https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/decoupling-your-business-logic-from-the-django-orm/ #django #TheStackReport

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    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uMe_j2rr850

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    &amp;gt; To him, our modern frontend stack looked like we’d declared war on the platform itself. https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html

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    Django doesn&amp;#39;t release often enough for you? What are you gonna do? Run main, of course. 🦄 https://noumenal.es/posts/running-django-main/O2x/ #Django

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    Nice work @mahryekuh! 🏅 https://github.com/django/django/commit/63c56cda133a85a158502891c40465bc0331d3d9

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    Finally got time to block out my proposal to move Django to an Annual Release Cycle as a DEP. Let&amp;#39;s get into the details 🫠 — do give it 👍 if you&amp;#39;re keen. https://github.com/django/deps/pull/109 #django

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    Announcing the next edition of Django on the Med 🏖️ tl;dr September 23 to 25, 2026 in Pescara, Italy 🇮🇹 We&amp;#39;ll see you there! https://buttondown.com/django-on-the-med/archive/django-on-the-med-is-back/ #Django #DjangoOnTheMed #Sprints

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    A little wisdom from the #LRB

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    Fantastic talk from @anorthall on digitising historical caving data with an LLM pipeline and Django. #djangoconeurope #djangoconeu2026

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    Yesterday we were having the old built-in vs write your own discussion about templates for the DTL. @nessita mentioned that bootstrapping the templatetags module can be a pain. It’s a one time cost but it’s still multiple steps. “I bet django-extensions already does this”. And sure enough: https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/create_template_tags.html It really is a great little add on. ⭐️ #django

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    &amp;quot;Every one is an LTS&amp;quot; — Here&amp;#39;s my proposal to move Django to an annual release cycle. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ No idea how that&amp;#39;s gonna go but 🥳 https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/an-annual-release-cycle-for-django/ #Django #TheStackReport

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    Current vibes

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    Django on the Med 🏖️ has a fedidevs page! https://fedidevs.com/djangomed25/ (Such a good app @anze3db) #DjangoOnTheMed

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    In case you need to hear it, burnout is a structural outcome, not a personal failure. It’s OK to stop. 🫂