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2026-09-03 17:44:41 UTC

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Very nice!

2026-08-31 17:36:50 UTC

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I also recall him saying exactly that more than once on the podcast. Unsurprisingly, he's right.
I think it's good framework wisdom in general: if you are fighting it too much, really stop and think about if you need to. And if you do, perhaps try another framework or approach. But probably the framework has made the right call for a reason.

2026-08-31 17:23:53 UTC

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https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/thoughts-on-djangos-core/
"It’s difficult to get features into Django. For all the reasons for Django’s success, it goes right against the grain, and — my concern is that — if we’re not realistic about that in the upcoming cycle, we’ll waste a lot of our built-up energy. In contrast, I’ll argue, if we go with the grain — if we do things the Django way — there’s no real limit to what we can get done."

2026-08-31 15:51:38 UTC

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Thank you! Would love to hear your thoughts. Surprisingly hard to simplify like this. I'm open to critiques--real world is a bit more messy, naturally--but I "think" this is broadly consistent.

2026-08-27 13:47:00 UTC

I posted the slides and talking notes from my talk on "Modern Django Deployments in 2026" at DjangoCon US. It's a high-level view of ANY Django deployment regardless of how big or small it is.
This slide is the last in the 10-step process where I explain how things all work together.
https://wsvincent.com/modern-django-deployments-in-2026/
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2026-08-27 00:11:27 UTC

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Very pleased to share Blue Bottle Coffee with @npub1j7f…270h and get him something approaching a proper cappuccino in the USA.

2026-08-27 00:10:17 UTC

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Thanks Paolo! Appreciate the kind words. And spending time with you this week 👊

2026-08-20 17:49:29 UTC

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2026 Survey results I mean

2026-08-20 17:49:13 UTC

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Next week to coincide with Django Survey being launched....

2026-08-06 18:52:49 UTC

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https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/117/050/072/370/733/155/original/62d9876c62df74af.mp4

2026-08-05 20:53:35 UTC

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Let's gooooo!
Thank you @npub1ed3…6tuq in particular and the Django Fellows and Teams more generally. Exciting stuff.

2026-08-05 17:05:38 UTC

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Currently writing up a blog post on Django Survey results and these all ring very true.

2026-08-04 18:30:22 UTC

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We are in violent agreement then. The best sort of conclusion to a debate.

2026-08-04 17:07:01 UTC

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You said to build and not yammer.

2026-08-04 16:49:37 UTC

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Nothing is going away, to be clear, but there are a lot of internal efforts and demoes around all this that will hopefully be coming out to the public soonish.

2026-08-04 16:48:54 UTC

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I can't speak too much on this, but the current plan is definitely to separate out the intelligence that can be plugged into any IDE. And there might be IDE news from JetBrains too at some point....

2026-08-04 16:46:12 UTC

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Don't be so hard on yourself for poopooing the discussion of agents in Django, @npub1mfs…ngvj.
https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/official-django-skills-for-llms/45563/14

2026-07-30 12:46:02 UTC

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Sorry! Won't do again.

2026-07-29 12:52:10 UTC

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Brutal
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2026-07-28 15:52:46 UTC

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Fewer potentialities, more actuality.

2026-07-28 14:46:36 UTC

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Amazing! I recognize those places. I hiked it southbound all the way, Yosemite to Mt. Whitney, back in 2009. An incredible experience and place.

2026-07-24 10:50:05 UTC

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I keep thinking of @npub10c6…0j74 's Django Has a Marketing Problem talk and this falls directly in it.
Even if we don't have something "official," the community should publicly be having the discussion and sharing resources.
Maybe we can get Uncle Bob to ask an LLM to write it for us? With tests of course.

2026-07-24 10:46:27 UTC

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

2026-07-24 10:31:25 UTC

I've been throwing @npub18ae…55j8 '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 site
2. Ask an LLM of choice to suggest changes
3. Review/implement
It found a number of things in LearnDjango.com that no previous LLM had (and that I had missed or was too lazy to do).
🔗https://github.com/adamchainz/django-crawl
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2026-07-22 13:06:19 UTC

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Not that limited!

2026-07-21 19:08:42 UTC

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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2026-07-21 17:32:37 UTC

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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2026-07-20 13:09:56 UTC

OH online: "evals is your word of the week."
Ok, fair.

2026-07-20 12:29:31 UTC

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This was awesome! Can't wait.

2026-07-13 11:41:47 UTC

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My Saturday. Only Quentin Tarantino is going to follow us now.
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2026-07-09 14:01:38 UTC

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 when deploying a FastAPI, Django, or Flask website. Most of it is the same. And while it's easy to become overwhelmed in vendor-specific nuance, the same architectural patterns happen again and again.
🔗 https://ep2026.europython.eu/session/deploying-python-web-apps-in-2026
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2026-07-08 20:45:51 UTC

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Very cool!

2026-07-08 12:39:53 UTC

Since I can't post it in text, here is a standout quote by @npub1mfs…ngvj from his recent Talk Python episode with @npub1mcu…7m70 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
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2026-07-08 12:28:28 UTC

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👀

2026-07-08 10:47:04 UTC

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Central African Republic was tough

2026-06-18 14:45:00 UTC

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Thank you for reaching out. Possible I had it wrong all along. But def fixed now and was fun to dive into some actual code vs the other activities I had yesterday 😀

2026-06-17 15:01:43 UTC

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Should be updated now. Nice catch!

2026-06-17 14:59:58 UTC

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And add a `def get_inline_instances` function to CustomUserAdmin class.

2026-06-17 14:57:17 UTC

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Ok, you're right here. I think need to fix the signal to use `get_or_create` rather than `create` so its idempotent. Will post an update....

2026-06-17 14:49:41 UTC

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Oh. It's possible something is out of date. Lemme look...

2026-06-17 12:40:44 UTC

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Britain goes for 6 episodes, or at least used to. I agree brevity leads to better content.

2026-06-17 12:40:07 UTC

"'Someone can fork it' is a fairy tale they like to tell devs at bedtime", @npub1mfs…ngvj 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 wasn't Astral.

2026-06-17 02:03:54 UTC

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Uh. Kinda worried about that. The charm might fade.

2026-06-17 01:54:57 UTC

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It's been a highlight of TV. Sad it will go away.

2026-06-15 17:28:10 UTC

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I've taken to telling people that not only did I know about em dashes for 30 years, I spent years as a book editor editing them. So, no, thank you very much, AI did not write this post. And I'm inclined to use them evermore given the current trends.

2026-06-15 17:25:26 UTC

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More seriously, @npub1mfs…ngvj is always making this point: most of the grand insights on Hacker News and other places is people learning about THE SAME OLD IDEAS that others have had for a long time. Yet we're expected to treat them as revolutionary each time 😀 .

2026-06-15 17:24:21 UTC

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The bots will love you.

2026-06-15 17:23:58 UTC

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 here we go.
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/llm-inspired-development/

2026-06-15 17:14:45 UTC

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Always a good trigger to go touch grass.
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2026-06-15 14:55:21 UTC

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Yup. 2026 and AI will result in more Git + terminal usage than ever. Until more UIs are more concrete for all this.

2026-06-10 15:04:52 UTC

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Makes sense. I suspect many will adopt similar approaches.

2026-06-10 15:04:04 UTC

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No. Will look....

2026-06-08 14:17:32 UTC

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https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/slop-productivity-and-why-the-ai Did you see this post by Marcus? It's a problem everywhere for anything peer-reviewed or relying on humans as gatekeepers. Your project is a great attempt, but I think the net result is gonna be more closed systems due to AI generally.

2026-06-05 13:34:37 UTC

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is all about it as are some others. Let's prod Jeff to publish his blog post around the setup....

2026-06-04 23:01:29 UTC

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Great write up. Have you experimented with Pydantic AI much?

2026-06-04 21:53:02 UTC

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Don't have to worry about what you don't know about, Carlton.

2026-06-03 19:04:13 UTC

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Cool. Do you need to includ the Zed and VSCode folders? If yes, maybe a note on what they add.

2026-05-30 01:03:31 UTC

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working ok for me so far

2026-05-29 23:58:34 UTC

My Friday night is absolutely wild y'all. Others?
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2026-05-28 13:06:40 UTC

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I'm already waiting on the writeup blog post....

2026-05-28 13:00:13 UTC

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So much FOMO here

2026-05-27 16:01:26 UTC

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Google and the rest don't like open web tech like this, so they make it hard.
This is the whole open vs closed issue though that AI is exacerbating. Whether it is code, writing, news... my energy to wade through unverified content is dwindling.

2026-05-27 15:58:57 UTC

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 strong understanding of all of Django.
🔗 https://learndjango.com/tutorials/hello-world-5-different-ways

2026-05-27 13:37:01 UTC

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that too

2026-05-27 13:34:34 UTC

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"misogyny is like water: stop up one leak, and it will spill out somewhere else."

2026-05-27 13:25:29 UTC

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I am expecting a blog post on this, Paolo. We both know Carlton won't do it 😉 .

2026-05-27 13:24:54 UTC

After 7 years of co-writing the Django News Newsletter, this is my top comment to the community. If you want @npub1nsp…ahke 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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2026-05-22 16:49:06 UTC

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Seems like a fun lighthearted way to start a Friday?

2026-05-22 01:15:36 UTC

I wrote up a recap of 7 days at PyCon US. If you couldn't attend in person, hopefully this gives a sense for what you missed!
https://wsvincent.com/pyconus-2026-recap/
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2026-05-20 15:54:43 UTC

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This was a very fun, informative, and inspiring chat.
Also note that this is our last Django Chat of the season. We will return in the fall with new guests, topics, and renewed energy!

2026-05-20 15:52:36 UTC

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Extra large, almost magnum sized there.

2026-05-19 23:00:00 UTC

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Yup, hence why I didn't make a reservation for us (I couldn't). Food is great for anyone interested, as was the service.

2026-05-19 16:31:54 UTC

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Were they on your feet the whole time? (Like glasses being on one's forehead.)

2026-05-19 15:28:01 UTC

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I'm sure it did. I mean, I have an example here but it's a proper Hello, World one not just the Django welcome screen. Though I see a need for both.
https://learndjango.com/tutorials/django-hello-world

2026-05-19 02:58:55 UTC

While sitting at the @npub1l9a…yneh sprints table for T-Strings, I asked someone to google "Django Hello World". We were not impressed by the results. The top one was a GitHub repo that is wrong in several ways.
So I quickly coded up a repo that is really just the Django welcome screen. But accurate. And hopefully acts as a gateway to future more-in-depth resources.
https://github.com/wsvincent/django-hello-world

2026-05-16 15:35:31 UTC

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Just missed y'all. Bummer.

2026-05-16 04:03:07 UTC

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Ha, yes. Everyone is being quite social about it. I'm here until Wednesday morning. Tomorrow and Sunday are talks and then sprints Monday/Tuesday, so less to visit about.
I'm at the PyCon booth all day tomorrow (and today) if you find a way to make it over.

2026-05-04 14:29:58 UTC

Are Written Coding Tutorials Dead?
If you mean written by an actual human developer who knows what they are talking about and took the time to write it all up and verify, then probably yes. In a world with almost no SEO (thanks, Google) and LLMs vacuuming up everything without attribution, the math doesn't math for technical content creators anymore.
🔗 https://wsvincent.com/future-written-tutorials/

2026-04-27 20:40:45 UTC

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I think it's hard to be too pessimistic 😀 .
The real lesson of economic history I take is how abnormal the years 1945-1975 were in the US and Western Europe. Otherwise the history of the world--politically, economically, etc.--is somewhat bleak.
Turns out people all want the same things and when they aren't served by existing political options, they look for change.

2026-04-27 17:40:42 UTC

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Right, very cheap, but also need a middle class with spending power as customers. That to me has always been the issue.
US business owners were happy to sell out their workers for more $ moving production abroad. But I suspect we'll see more and more protectionism in the future, and so where are the customers?

2025-12-12 12:03:27 UTC

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upload issue apparently cause the actual video file is fine. Re-uploading to new URL etc.

2025-12-11 20:39:32 UTC

Ok, the YouTube video of the recent @npub120g…wm7n with Natalia Bidart on 6.0 is out.
Feel free to watch 30 seconds and give a thumbs up, if so inclined! Note, this episode is audio only. Most future episodes will also have video.
https://youtu.be/mmKNQqbZN_4?si=0nQz5RylF_XG7WFa

2025-12-08 16:38:30 UTC

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that's exactly the settings I use, too.

2025-10-01 17:35:00 UTC

Just one shot vibe coded an update to my site. Swap the favicon from the green square I've had for years to match my Lego icon, inspired by @npub1nsp…ahke naturally.
Proud to report this simple task was done correctly. A quick review in my visual Git tool, and off to production we go.

2025-09-19 18:50:52 UTC

A lot to ponder and worry about in this excellent piece by James Marriott on "The Post-Literate Society."
https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
tl;dr thanks to smartphones we're all (kids, students, adults) becoming dumber and it is happening globally.

2025-04-15 13:44:07 UTC

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Where's the liberal arts? 😀

2025-03-13 23:09:39 UTC

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an hour?

2025-03-10 21:43:30 UTC

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😂

2025-03-10 20:59:18 UTC

Current reading. I suspect @npub1xj9…yv56 would have thoughts on this one. #philosophy
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2025-03-10 16:17:31 UTC

I'm giving a talk on "Django for Data Science" to the Boston Python group on March 25th, 6pm at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA.
This is a dry run of my DjangoCon Europe keynote, so please come with questions and all the rest if you're around :)

2025-03-07 11:11:11 UTC

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maybe @npub1xj9…yv56 has a more informed response here as he's still directly involved with DRF.

2025-03-07 11:10:46 UTC

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DRF is still handling bug reports I believe, albeit not as quickly as, say, Django itself. I think you're referring to the fact that DRF is feature complete, so they are not working on new features.
DRF is still used in A TON of places and works well. For greenfield projects or ones where "speed" really matters, I think it's clear `django-ninja` is the likely replacement, but that will take a while to occur.

2025-03-06 16:14:20 UTC

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😊

2025-03-06 16:10:28 UTC

The 5th edition of my book, Django for APIs, is now available. It covers the latest version of Django (5.1), Django REST Framework (3.15), and much more.
It's available as either an online course at https://learndjango.com/courses/django-for-apis/ or a paperback on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735467286?wsvincent-20.
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2024-11-20 15:12:26 UTC

TIL that YouTube will pull a podcast's RSS feed into audio videos. So @npub120g…wm7n is now available on YouTube. I manually did this for the first 63 videos but then stopped cause it took forever. But no it should happen automatically...
https://www.youtube.com/@djangochat

2024-11-20 03:13:33 UTC

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congrats!