Steve Mapes

Another day, another set of #Microsoft365 outages. Personally I noticed issues connecting to outlook.com for one of my businesses. Of the three big Cloud providers (MS, Amazon, Google) they certainly seem to have the most frequent issues over the last 15 years that I've been using all three.

openai confirm databreach via the data breach at Mixpanel

Have I Been Pwned: China Software Developer Network Data Breach In 2011, the China Software Developer Network (CSDN) suffered a data breach that exposed over 6M user records. The data included email addresses alongside usernames and plain text passwords.

New breach: The China Software Developer Network (CSDN) had 6.4M records breached in 2011. Data included email address, username and plain text password. 80% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/CSDN

This is a banger post from Haki Benita, well worth the investment towards improving your Django and PostgreSQL migration skills.

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Interop Feature Ranking Rank the web platform features you care most about

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Django: Introducing django-http-compression - Adam Johnson HTTP supports response compression, which can significantly reduce the size of responses, thereby decreasing bandwidth usage and load times for users. It’s a cheap and valuable technique for improving...

✍️ New post announcing my package django-http-compression.

This is a drop-in replacement for Django's GZipMiddleware, supporting the modern compression algorithms Brotli and Zstandard (Python 3.14+).

adamj.eu/tech/2025/10...

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Python 3.14 is out today! Here are my notes on the new release: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/p...

If you're an open source library maintainer who supports all current Python releases this also means you can drop 3.9 support now and start depending on features from 3.10, like match/case

🚀 django-upgrade 1.29.0 is out!

It ships 4 new fixers for Django 6.0, to help ease the upgrade for this new version expected in December.

Test out Django 6.0 alpha today and use django-upgrade to automatically update some of your code!

django-upgrade.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

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Disclosure notices going out, son got this one just now:

Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | Discord At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.

This is big - data breach at Discord (or at least at an unnamed third-party): discord.com/press-releas...

Have I Been Pwned: Artists&Clients Data Breach In August 2025, the "marketplace that connects artists to prospective clients" Artists&Clients, suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand of US$50k. The data was subsequently leaked publicly...

New breach: Artists&Clients was breached in August and ransomed for US$50k. The data was then dumped last month and included 95k email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and bcrypt password hashes. 70% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/breach/Artis...

Django AWS API Gateway Websockets Version 2 is now up!

I've confirmed it's working with Pyton up to 3.14 and Django 6.0.rc1.

A change has been made to the naming of the attribute used to choose the handler and there's a bug fix for using for those using AWS Profiles
pypi.org/project/djan...

DevDocs — Django 6.0 documentation Django 6.0 API documentation with instant search, offline support, keyboard shortcuts, mobile version, and more.

You can now read and search the Django 6.0 documentation offline with DevDocs!

devdocs.io/django~6.0/

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Git: check if a commit exists on a given branch - Adam Johnson To check if a commit SHA exists on a given branch, you have a couple of options.

✍️ New post on checking if a commit exists on a given Git branch, using `git merge-base --is-ancestor` or `git branch --contains`.

adamj.eu/tech/2025/09...

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Full Conference Schedule | DjangoCon US 2025 The schedule for DjangoCon US 2025.

Today, I registered to attend DjangoCon US in Chicago next month. I can't wait to see these talks and spend time among the community! The venue is nestled on the Chicago River and has incredible views of the city skyline. It is going to be an unforgettable experience. 🐍 2025.djangocon.us/schedule/

Django Girls Chicago on 6th September 2025 Django Girls is a one-day workshop about programming in Python and Django tailored for women.

A Django Girls workshop is taking place on September 6 in Chicago. The application deadline is tomorrow. Django Girls is a fun, highly effective route for women to be introduced to coding. If you know someone who might be interested, please encourage them to apply. djangogirls.org/en/chicago/

Another video made by a client featuring desktop and mobile software solutions developed by Mapes Tech developed using #Python, #Django, #AWS, #WebSockets

django-multifactor Drop-in multifactor authentication subsystem for Django.

django-multifactor 0.8.2 is out! This fixes support for #Django projects using mysql-connector-python. It also continues the changes to add better support for Fido2 when running locally
pypi.org/project/djan...

Proud to be sponsoring TFNation this year, one of a couple of sponsorships this year by Mapes Tech

#wms #django #londonbookfair #mapestech | Steven Mapes Earlier this month, at Olympia London during The London Book Fair, Scan Global Logistics proudly showcased the ScanCloud WMS solution – a cutting-edge platform…

Earlier this month, at Olympia London during The London Book Fair, Scan Global Logistics proudly showcased the ScanCloud WMS solution – a cutting-edge platform designed and developed by Mapes Tech.

Developed in Django using DRF, Websockets and AWS

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A Place for All My Books A cozy board game about collecting good books & the joy of organizing them.

I just backed A Place for All My Books on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/smi...

django-decorator-include Include Django URL patterns with decorators

I've also updated Django-Decorator-Include to test on Django5.2 so advance adopters can keep using this handy library

pypi.org/project/djan...

django-aws-api-gateway-websockets Created to allow Django projects to be used as a HTTP backend for AWS API Gateway websockets

I've released v1.1.1 of Django AWS Api Gateway. No real changes but it's now been tested to be working with the alpha of Django 5.2 with Python 3.10 through 3.14
pypi.org/project/djan...

Christmas Eve morning 3am, heard a weird noise. Got up this morning to find my adjustable desk had shattered overnight. The warranty on these things is 2 years and this is now 2 years and 8 months old so I guess it was due to go with the built-in obsolescence of these things

My new travel computer has just arrived. Having arrived back from Holland yesterday having resurrected my 12 year old Dell Latitude for a temporary travel computer is new replacement has arrived in the form of the Raspberry Pi 500

YouTube video by Jeff Geerling The Keyboard IS the Computer! (Pi 500)

A good look at the new @Raspberry_Pi
And Pi Monitors youtu.be/5YfJWYELA3k?...

Django TV Django TV - The premier destination for Python and Django videos and events.

Thanks to @webology.bsky.social ’s new Django TV site, here are all of my DjangoCon talks gathered on one page.

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Amongst other things, today I have been working through my scanning project of old documents from TMS. I have also been sorting out my storage unit and helping with some #Python and #flask development

A little family project is coming together as I'm having my father's old cine reels digitised and then I'm denoising them digitally. It still has the artifacts you'd expect from cine film but is just that little bit sharper.
Here's some image from 1970 and 1972