Will Vincent

A local friend of mine just joined a very successful Django company.

This is the text version of my DjangoCon US talk, Modern Django Deployments in 2026, which I recently presented in Chicago.

This is the text version of my EuroPython talk, Deploying Python Web Apps in 2026, which I recently presented in Krakow, Poland.

EuroPython just concluded in Krakow, Poland, and I was there as a member of the PyCharm team, manning a booth for three days, giving a talk on deployment, and more.

One of my favorite takeaways from the Django Chat podcast last fall was when Adrian Holovaty, one of the original creators of Django, discussed the recent case of LLM-Inspired Development.

I’ll start with the main take here: please, for the love of God, add an RSS feed to your personal site.

I just spent seven days in Long Beach, California, for PyCon US 2026, the biggest Python conference in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

You can see the question of this essay in the title.

It’s common to hear the phrase “you are what you eat” when it comes to diet, exercise, and overall health.

I use Ahrefs free site audit feature for this website and several others I manage.

If you are a programmer and especially if you work with the Python programming language, today’s news that OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) acquired Astral is a big deal.