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Argh. It's a pain (if ironic) when your monitoring service dies.

Tim Toady Bicarbonate.

It took several really bad admin panel UIs to make me realise that I rarely notice usability, just its absence.

It's not done when it's written, debugged, tested, reviewed, merged or tagged. It's done when the user can use it.

What will forever be exclusive to Python 3? http://t.co/gWlf6kS7WZ -- I learnt about several new Python 2 things here!

I'm also delighted to see my usability improvements to URL reversing https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17076 in Django 1.6.

"The Model.save() method now tries to directly UPDATE the database if the instance has a primary key value."Django 1.6 is a big improvement!

In Django, .is_superuser gives a user all permissions, but you *still* need to set .is_staff to access everything.

"Every user is a non-javascript user while your page is loading." -- Scott Jehl

Really impressive 'literate programming for calculators' http://t.co/hBoSXGoz7Q

Yikes. I'm profiling a production site and found that a Django template that takes nearly 7 seconds to render. Hoping it's a sneaky DB query

@getsentry Is there a changelog after 3.0? http://t.co/gn7PjCokeE I'm on 3.1 and wondering if I need to change anything when updating to 3.5

@datadoghq looks excellent. What's the easiest HW monitoring tool you support? I've been using monit but you only have cacti and nagios.

Release blog post with carefully written examples. Commenters find several ways the examples could be improved. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.