Jon Banafato

Coefficient of Fiction: the amount of work required by the audience to maintain suspension of disbelief when engaging with a story

PSA: You have less than two weeks to nominate someone for PSF Fellowship for Q4 of 2025. Details at

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, and I wrote a blog post about the topic last year at

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Voted ✅ If you're eligible to vote in the DSF elections, please check your inbox, set aside some time to read each candidate statement, and vote before the due date of 23:59 on November 26, 2025 AoE. It's important, and it won't take you a ton of time.

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Our 2026 DSF Board Candidates ⭐️ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/05/2026-dsf-board-candidates/

Feedback is hard to come by, especially positive feedback. If you appreciate someone, if their work has helped you, and especially if you want them to continue doing the things they're doing, let them know.

I'm finally able to attend DjangoCon US in person this year (in just a few days!). It looks like there are still tickets available (see the "Buy Tickets" link at

DjangoCon US

Welcome to DjangoCon US 2025 | DjangoCon US 2025

DjangoCon US 2025 is a Python and Django focused web development conference in Chicago, Illinois.

), so I hope you'll join in-person or online. Looking forward to chatting about Python, Django, and conferences with old and new friends. See you there?

🕛 The quarterly due date for PSF Fellow nominations [1] is about nine days away. I've talked / posted about this at length in the past and shared a blog post on the topic last year [2]. These nominations and recognition mean a lot to the people who help build the language, frameworks, communities, and other parts of the vast Python ecosystem, and you can really make someone's day by writing up a short paragraph or two about them. [1]

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PSF Fellow Membership

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PSF Fellow Nominations Q4 Due Date | jonafato

It's the first Friday of the month, which means the next @npub1u95a...rsjd call starts in 25 minutes.

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Do you know of examples of a software library's test suite catching a bug in its upstream dependencies? I've seen a few of these over the years, and I'd like to put together a small list. Things like: - A programming language implementation's test suite uncovering a bug in other implementations - A library's test suite uncovering a bug in the language implementation itself - A framework addon's / extension's test suite uncovering a bug in the framework

This episode is worth watching. I find it interesting not just for its content but also for the fact that (by my reading) it's an episode of a series that would make sense on and is of high enough production value for public television but is direct to YouTube, which is not something I've seen a ton of. This thought will live in my head for a while.

The first #PyConUS recap blog post I've seen this year is from @Will Vincent. It's a good read over at

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Will Vincent (@wsvincent@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image I wrote up a brief recap of my @pycon experience in Pittsburgh this year. Manning the PyCharm booth, attending open spaces, host...

. Keep 'em coming, I look forward to reading every one of them.