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Let’s talk about usernames
A few weeks ago I released [django-registration](/projects/django-registration/) 2.4.1. The 2.4 series is the last in the django-registration 2.x line, and …
James Bennett
I'm James, a software developer living in California.
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Reddit takes a new direction
Several months ago, reddit shook with the news that longtime subreddit /r/jailbait -- dedicated to, well, you can probably guess …
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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Boring Python: Code quality
This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage …
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Let's talk about LLMs
Everybody seems to agree we’re in the middle of _something_, though what, exactly, seems to be up for debate. It …
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Django core no more
If you're not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django's development, you might not know there's …
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How Python does Unicode
As we all (hopefully) know by now, Python 3 made a significant change to how strings work in the language. …
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Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
*This post has been significantly updated since it was originally written. The most recent update was in September 2026; a …
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Destroy all hiring processes
Finding work as a software person kind of sucks sometimes. Actually, let me strike the "kind of" from that sentence. …
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Yes, I have opinions on your open source contributions
Recently [the Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/) announced that they will be implementing new account-security policies, and hoo boy are some people …
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On "magic", once again (from James Bennet, Django dev)
So it seems Giles Bowkett [is upset](http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-you-believe-in-magic.html) about use of the word "magic". I'm happy to agree with the general …
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Let's talk about Python 3.0
There's an old joke, so old that I don't even know for certain where it originated, that's often used to …
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On Python packaging
So currently there's a bit of a to-do involving Debian's Ruby packaging team and the Ruby "gem" system. [This document](http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html) …