Topics covered in this episode:

django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages
pyleak
More Django (three articles)
Datastar
Extras
Joke

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Brian #1: django-bolt : Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

Farhan Ali Raza
High-Performance Fully Typed API Framework for Django
Inspired by DRF, FastAPI, Litestar, and Robyn
Django-Bolt docs
Interview with Farhan on Django Chat Podcast
And a walkthrough video

Michael #2: pyleak

Detect leaked asyncio tasks, threads, and event loop blocking with stack trace in Python. Inspired by goleak.
Has patterns for
- Context managers
- decorators
Checks for
- Unawaited asyncio tasks
- Threads
- Blocking of an asyncio loop
- Includes a pytest plugin so you can do @pytest.mark.no_leaks

Brian #3: More Django (three articles)

Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks
- Paul Taylor
- Nice intro of how easy it is to get started with Django Tasks
Some notes on starting to use Django
- Julia Evans
- A handful of reasons why Django is a great choice for a web framework
  - less magic than Rails
  - a built-in admin
  - nice ORM
  - automatic migrations
  - nice docs
  - you can use sqlite in production
  - built in email
- The definitive guide to using Django with SQLite in production
  - I’m gonna have to study this a bit.
  - The conclusion states one of the benefits is “reduced complexity”, but, it still seems like quite a bit to me.

Michael #4: Datastar

Sent to us by Forrest Lanier
Lots of work by Chris May
Out on Talk Python soon.
Official Datastar Python SDK
Datastar is a little like HTMX, but
- The single source of truth is your server
- Events can be sent from server automatically (using SSE)
  - e.g
```
yield SSE.patch_elements(
    f"""{(#HTML#)}{datetime.now().isoformat()}"""
)
```
Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar article

Extras

Brian:

Django Chat: Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken
- Quite a fun interview
PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
- Now with status “Final” and slated for Python 3.15

Michael:

Prayson Daniel’s Paper tracker
Ice Cubes (open source Mastodon client for macOS)
Rumdl for PyCharm, et. al
cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun
Python Developers Survey 2026

Joke: Pushed to prod

#468 A bolt of Django

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