Will Vincent

If you are NOT reading the London Review of Books on the regular, try out this latest piece on Updike and see if it is of interest.

So many laugh-out-loud phrases that only a Brit could write. I can't quote most of them here.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/james-wolcott/what-you-can-get-away-with

The PyCharm team at JetBrains is hosting the inaugural PyTV Python Unplugged conference on March 4th in Amsterdam.

It's a FREE, online Python conference available to everyone everywhere. The event will be livestreamed and available on YouTube afterward.

Django-specific speakers include @sheena@fosstodon.org, @sarahboyce@mastodon.social, and @carlton@chaos.social, among many others.

You can save the date here: https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged/

The final of 3 video shorts I took at @djangocon@fosstodon.org is now up. This one focuses on favorite Django 3rd party package, always a fun discussion!

https://youtube.com/shorts/h5_tZxBAx0E?si=WKCz4OZYK1p21pWA

The 2025 State of Python survey is now out!

This is the annual survey done by @ThePSF@fosstodon.org and @jetbrains. @mkennedy@fosstodon.org wrote up a great summary (linked) of the highlights.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/08/the-state-of-python-2025/