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After 7 years of co-writing the Django News Newsletter, this is my top comment to the community. If you want @webology or me to see what you wrote, have an RSS feed.
You can add it in just a few steps on Django (search LearnDjango.com for the tutorial).
Longer thoughts in the link...
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/please-add-feed-to-django-site/
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The slides and full notes for my talk, "Deploying Web Apps in 2026" is up now.
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/deploying-web-apps-in-2026/
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My EuroPython recap blog post is up! It features A LOT of pictures, as well as talk information, takeaways, special events and more.
Maybe my favorite part of the whole week was walking up to the Speakers' Dinner entrance alongside Guido van Rossum and we were BOTH asked for our QR codes to enter. Security was strict!
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/europython-2026/
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Since I can't post it in text, here is a standout quote by @carlton from his recent Talk Python episode with @mkennedy on Async Django. It starts 17:46 or so in. The whole episode is worth a watch/listen!
📹 https://www.youtube.com/live/J1WXYE1Wjzo?si=0RGZSSrUaq5csaSV&t=1066
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 27latest
11
Avg engagement / post
4–14
Typical post (engagement)
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
54/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 14 likes + reposts (median 7) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: After 7 years of co-writing the Django News Newsletter, this is · 42 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 5 text · 7 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.8×
Follows 162 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
After 7 years of co-writing the Django News Newsletter, this is my top comment to the community. If you want @webology or me to see what you wrote, have an RSS feed.
You can add it in just a few steps on Django (search LearnDjango.com for the tutorial).
Longer thoughts in the li…
FastAPI has an official `skills.md` file now. Should Django?
I started a Django Forum post to kick the hornet's nest on this...
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/official-django-skills-for-llms/45563
I've been throwing @adamchainz 's new `django-crawl` package against my Django sites and it is REALLY, REALLY good.
It's an in-process site crawler using Django's test client. Here's what I recommend:
1. Run it against your local Django si…
The slides and full notes for my talk, "Deploying Web Apps in 2026" is up now.
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/deploying-web-apps-in-2026/
My EuroPython recap blog post is up! It features A LOT of pictures, as well as talk information, takeaways, special events and more.
Maybe my favorite part of the whole week was walking up to the Speakers' Dinner entrance alongside Guido v…
OH online: "evals is your word of the week."
Ok, fair.
Next week I'm giving a talk at EuroPython on "Deploying Python Web Apps in 2026." If you're attending the conference, I hope you'll come by and ask me questions after.
The high-level goal is to demystify with visuals what actually happens …
Since I can't post it in text, here is a standout quote by @carlton from his recent Talk Python episode with @mkennedy on Async Django. It starts 17:46 or so in. The whole episode is worth a watch/listen!
📹 https://www.youtube.com/live/J1W…
"'Someone can fork it' is a fairy tale they like to tell devs at bedtime", @carlton just hit me with.
We were discussing [REDACTED], which is doing really cool and important Python open space work, but is VC funded. And no, the company was…
Even when it's wrong, sometimes an LLM can be right.
Claude recently gave me bad advice when reviewing my slide deck for an upcoming talk at EuroPython, but buried in there was a good idea I've since implemented. LLM-inspired development h…
My Friday night is absolutely wild y'all. Others?
A hill I'm willing to die on: this is the best technical tutorial I've ever written (it's an old one I keep up-to-date).
It shows you how to build a "Hello, World" site in Django five different ways. If you can understand this, you have a…
I've been throwing @adamchainz 's new `django-crawl` package against my Django sites and it is REALLY, REALLY good.
It's an in-process site crawler using Django's test client. Here's what I recommend:
1. Run it against your local Django si…
The slides and full notes for my talk, "Deploying Web Apps in 2026" is up now.
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/deploying-web-apps-in-2026/
My EuroPython recap blog post is up! It features A LOT of pictures, as well as talk information, takeaways, special events and more.
Maybe my favorite part of the whole week was walking up to the Speakers' Dinner entrance alongside Guido v…
OH online: "evals is your word of the week."
Ok, fair.
Next week I'm giving a talk at EuroPython on "Deploying Python Web Apps in 2026." If you're attending the conference, I hope you'll come by and ask me questions after.
The high-level goal is to demystify with visuals what actually happens …
Since I can't post it in text, here is a standout quote by @carlton from his recent Talk Python episode with @mkennedy on Async Django. It starts 17:46 or so in. The whole episode is worth a watch/listen!
📹 https://www.youtube.com/live/J1W…
"'Someone can fork it' is a fairy tale they like to tell devs at bedtime", @carlton just hit me with.
We were discussing [REDACTED], which is doing really cool and important Python open space work, but is VC funded. And no, the company was…
Even when it's wrong, sometimes an LLM can be right.
Claude recently gave me bad advice when reviewing my slide deck for an upcoming talk at EuroPython, but buried in there was a good idea I've since implemented. LLM-inspired development h…
My Friday night is absolutely wild y'all. Others?
A hill I'm willing to die on: this is the best technical tutorial I've ever written (it's an old one I keep up-to-date).
It shows you how to build a "Hello, World" site in Django five different ways. If you can understand this, you have a…
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Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.5× per week.
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Credibility score
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Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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:django: former @django board member
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