Alien 3 definitely failing Bechdel test huh

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GitHub - adamghill/sqliteo: The native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people. The native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people. - adamghill/sqliteo

I vibe coded github.com/adamghill/sq... completely in Antigravity recently (Gemini + some Opus). I never wrote Swift in the past, although I did look through the code once in a while. Worked pretty well and never had to open up XCode once.

We heard you like waiting for build steps so we made waiting for build steps the entire thing engineers do now

Should you burn it all down? I made you a handy infographic to help you decide!

This is yet another reminder that using AI doesn't make the product better, when you don't have a team that is customer-obsessed / product obsessed.

And a team that is customer/product-obsessed without AI (or very little AI) will still run laps around one with AI...

I wrote a blog post about some of the options for adding type checking to your Django project!

Historically, Django projects have been tough to type-check, but the future feels bright, especially if PEP 827 gets accepted!

blog.pecar.me/typing-your...

And of course you can build great software without LLMs. If your preferred workflow is to type the code I think there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The “you’re being left behind” narrative is ridiculous. Use the tools if they help you, don’t if they don’t. Everyone needs to grow up, man.

Releases · adamghill/sqliteo The native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people. - adamghill/sqliteo

I couldn't find a native MacOS SQLite browser that I really liked using, so... I made my own. 😅

Very heavily inspired by Postico, SQLiteo is pure Swift, as fast as possible, and intuitive to use.

📦 github.com/adamghill/sq...
🛠️ github.com/adamghill/sq...

Is that Wonder?! Loved that place!

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Checking Django Settings I still keep coming back to this "the settings file still feels like a lot" concern in...

dev.to/adamghill/ch...

GitHub - adamghill/dj-toml-settings: Load Django settings from a TOML file Load Django settings from a TOML file. Contribute to adamghill/dj-toml-settings development by creating an account on GitHub.

[Projects] adamghill/dj-toml-settings

Load Django settings from a TOML file. #djangonews

github.com/adamghill/d...

Top half of a chart showing dozens of benchmarks, most of them more than 1x faster.

Bottom half of the chart. About half of these are also most of them more than 1x faster, about a quarter are around 0.9 faster, and a quarter are insignificant.

Some new preliminary numbers from Ken Jin for the JIT in Python 3.15:

"On AArch64 macOS, the JIT has a 7-8% speedup over the tail calling interpreter with all optimizations enabled."

docs.python.org/3.15/whatsne...

See also doesjitgobrrr.com

#Python #Python315 #JIT #CPython

"Be kind, be involved, believe in your art," he said. "At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn't matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it's that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters."

Guillermo del Toro gets it.

variety.com/2026/film/ne...

0.6.1 of django-new has been released. 🚀

- Lots of UI tweaks.
- `--data` flag.
- Generate `summary.html` for a user-friendly explanation.
- BETA: `--install` to install packages.

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/django-new
📦 pypi.org/project/django-new/

Django 6.0 released Posted by Natalia Bidart on Dec. 3, 2025

Django 6.0 released ✨ a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design 🎨🧩🛠️💡#Django -- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Featuring, my personal highlight of course, `django.tasks`!

theorangeone.net/posts/django...

ICs vs Managers vs Leaders: Why Real Leadership is Rare It should be considered that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, or more dangerous to carry through than to initiate a new order of things. For the innovator makes ene...

Been thinking about this since it was shared with me yesterday, especially about how oppressively most organizations pressure managers (even senior ones) to stay in that persona rather than actually leading
www.leadingsapiens.com/ics-managers...

GitHub - adamghill/django-new: Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀 Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀. Contribute to adamghill/django-new development by creating an account on GitHub.

0.4.0 of django-new is released. 🚀

Now with interactive mode! ✨

`uvx django-new` steps through prompts to create a Django application. It also shows the tree structure of what was created.

Both thanks to `rich` by @willmcgugan.bsky.social.

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/djan...

CNBC How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy 2 days ago - Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and ...

oh it’s “hoarding” now if you don’t update your expensive electronics every year

Just made my #Django homepage redesign repo public in case it's useful inspiration.

🏠 django-homepage.adamghill.com
🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📖 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Also posted on the Django forum: forum.djangoproject.com/t/want-to-wo...

Full panel

Top part of the panel

Bottom part of the panel

Panel in progress

@universalorl.bsky.social @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social Check out this actual stained glass panel based on the piece in the Tribute store above the registers at HHN 34 in Orlando. 😍

There are over 800 pieces of glass and 15 different colors and it took 2.5 weeks of working around 2-8 hours/day!

Stained glass panel of the Grady Sisters from The Shining, standing on the iconic orange and red patterned carpet. The background is clear glass with red streaks, as if from blood.

My wife creates a lot of #stainedglass projects that are a little outside the norm. 👻

Here is one she made before #Halloween to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick's classic #film, The Shining.

🤩 glass-o-lantern.com/the-shining/
🎃 www.instagram.com/glass_o_lant...

#cinema #letterboxd #horror #art

GitHub - adamghill/dj-lite: Configure SQLite for production use with Django. Configure SQLite for production use with Django. Contribute to adamghill/dj-lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here is my lightning talk ⚡️ at #DjangoConUS about using #SQLite with #Django in production with github.com/adamghill/dj.... 💡

youtu.be/gWEwPy9mjqQ?...

For more conference talks from DjangoCon US 2025, head to djangotv.com/videos/djang...! 📺

websites in 2025

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

2026 DSF Board Candidates Posted by Thibaud Colas on Nov. 5, 2025

Our 2026 DSF Board Candidates ⭐️ www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports Dear PEP 810 authors. The Steering Council is happy to unanimously[1] accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”. Congratulations! We appreciate the way you were able to build on and improve the previ...

The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP810 #LazyImports #lazy #Python315