Because it is a web app with code, I could iterate and tell it my additional constraints.

Travel Planning with AI Travel Planning with AI I have started planning my family’s travel with the assistance of Claude Code. It resulted in a website that contains information about our travel destination, potential activi...

Sharing experience of how I'm currently using Claude Code to plan my family's summer travel.
mariatta.ca/posts/travel...
#AI #Travel #Blog

Typo of the day: source env/bi/activate
#TypoOfTheDay

Certificate of Completion Am I a Tech Bro? Not a Tech Bro with a score of 0% agreement with tech bro ideas

lol not a tech bro with a score of 0%

amiatechbro.com

Issue · django/new-features New feature proposals for Django and third-party ecosystem - Issue · django/new-features

Don't know how this works, but it says I need community support for my feature request in Django. Internet, do your thing?

github.com/django/new-f...
#django #opensource

It was an honor to give the closing keynote at the George Washington University's OSCON.
Thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for putting together a great event. I attended many insightful talks about open source.
#publicspeaking #keynotespeaker #gwu #opensource #conference

The value of Open Source Software is > 8.8 Trillion if OSS doesn't exist and each company has to rewrite what they use.

Insightful keynote from Dr. Frank Nagle at GW Open Source Program Office OSCON.
The value of Open Source Software is > 8.8 Trillion if OSS doesn't exist and each company has to rewrite what they use.
#OSS #opensource #oscon

More. Better. @ PyCascades 2026 PyCascades 2026 talk on what it takes to be a better software engineer.

Phew. Just got done with my #PyCascades talk. You can find a blog version of my talk here!

https://pythonbynight.com/talks/more-better

t"This is not a string"

A Magritte moment from @davepeck.org during the last talk of #PyCascades on t-strings

Slide with the list of volunteers

Slide with the list of CFP reviewers

Slide with a photo of each of the nine conference organizers, with five of those organizers standing and smiling in front of the screen

And thanks to everyone who helped in making this an incredible event! #PyCascades

Slide that says “No More Spreadsheets!”

Mariatta @mariatta.ca with an all-time great slide!

DjangoCon US 2026 Chicago Opportunity Grants are Now Open! Apply Here: https://forms.gl/xYSsdAGR5RbvtH9q7 Application Closes on March 16th Background photos show huge group of attendees at DjangoCon US and the Chicago skyline at night.

💸 Need help getting to DjangoCon US 2026? Opportunity Grants are available!

Grants can cover travel, lodging, and other conference-related costs. No need to be a speaker or first-timer to apply — we consider everyone.

⏰ Deadline: March 16 at 11AM CDT
👉 forms.gle/xYSsdAGR5Rbv...

#DjangoCon

A dashboard titled "Upcoming Python releases" showing: Tuesday, 10 March 2026 Today! 3.15.0 alpha 7 · PEP 790 Tuesday, 7 April 2026 28 days 3.13.13 · PEP 719 3.14.4 · PEP 745 3.15.0 alpha 8 · PEP 790 Tuesday, 5 May 2026 56 days 3.15.0 beta 1 · PEP 790 Tuesday, 26 May 2026 77 days 3.15.0 beta 2 · PEP 790

I made a thing: here's the upcoming Python releases.
hugovk.github.io/next-release/
Oh, look, there's one today! I hope that's out soon...
#Python #dashboard #next #release

Year of the Snake Recap Looking Back at the Year of the Snake It’s already March 2026, you might think it’s too late for anybody to share a recap of the year 2025. Well, the good news is that we are still in the beginnings o...

Recap from my Year of the Snake.

mariatta.ca/posts/year-o...

Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database A practical step-by-step guide to using Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to and query an existing database using inspectdb.

Most people think Django needs a full project to be useful 🤔

What if you could use the ORM alone?
One file. No server. No migrations.
Connect to an existing database and explore it with QuerySets.

Django as a lightweight data tool.

www.paulox.net/2026/02/20/d...

#Django #ORM

Blades of the Guardians movie is so amazing. Everyone should watch it.
#BladesOfTheGuardians

Hidden Figures of Python | Trailer: Episode 11 with Sheena O'Connell Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Sneak peak into next episode of #HiddenFiguresofPython

Meet Sheena O’Connell!

From startups to nonprofit education, she’s rethinking how people learn to code and support educators.

We talk Python & learning communities.

Hosts: @cheuk.dev & @terezaif.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIP...

Call for proposal for PyCon US Maintainer summit. Closes Feb 20. Join is too share your thoughts and learn from your peers! https://us.pycon.org/2026/events/maintainers-summit/

Can you believe it's already February 20th?
It's the last day to get your talk proposal to the Maintainer Summit at PyCon US 2026!

us.pycon.org/2026/events/...

#pycon #pyconus #publicspeaking #opensource

hello

we will accept more proposals should you have them

make our program gooder: pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp

The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations Your voice, your choice! Vote your favorite platforms for the 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards, the longest-running awards program in the content management industry! For almost a decade and a half, our ...

There are no CMS Olympics. But we do have the CMS Critic Awards! And you can help Wagtail win gold. 🏆️

Please take a minute to vote for us in the Best Free CMS and Best Open Source CMS categories. It's super quick, and you don't even have to fill out the whole ballot.

Vote here: cmscritic.com/vote

Maintainers Summit PyCon US 2026

Calling all #Python maintainers: The #PyConUS 2026 Maintainers Summit CFP is open!

Topics include: GenAI in OSS, security, community building, developer workflows & more.

First-time speakers & underrepresented voices especially encouraged!

Learn more: us.pycon.org/2026/events/...

Yay! Congrats to you as well!

hello

we'd like to close our cfp tomorrow; please enable us to do that by promptly submitting your talk ideas here: pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp

thank you

Some events where I'll be speaking in the year 2026 are:
- PyCascades (Vancouver, BC)
- GW Open Source Conference (Washington, DC)
- LinuxFest NW (Bellingham, WA)
- PyCon US 2026 (Long Beach, CA)
See you at any of these events!
#pyconus #pycascades #publicspeaking

My first ever conference talk was in 2016 at DjangoCon US.
In the year 2026, and I'll celebrating 10 years of public speaking, and therefore 10 years of Ice Cream Selfies 😎

The Maintainer Summit is returning to PyCon US 2026. And we have our CFP open!

Come share your talks, stories, ideas about the maintaining open source with us.

secretcodes.dev/maintainer-s...

#PyConUS #MaintainerSummit #CFP #OpenSource #PublicSpeaking

🎤 Speaker Announcement
We’re excited to welcome @mariatta.ca as a speaker at PyCascades 2026! 💜🐍

Python Core Dev, open source maintainer, community leader, and one of the people who helped kickstart PyCascades & PyLadiesCon.

🎟️ Tickets 👉 2026.pycascades.com

#Python #PyCascades #OpenSource

Selfie of Mariatta seated in an airplane.

First work trip of 2026! YVR ✈️ YYZ ✈️ BNA (Nashville) 🇺🇸

TV in the living room is showing a scene from Dexter. Dexter is holding a red guitar. Also in the living room, the same guitar is in front of the TV

Watching an old episode of Dexter and realized my guitar is on TV lol

CC @blackpythondevs.bsky.social @kjaymiller.com
#BlackPythonDevs