Journey Book: October 2026
Trick or Treat 🎃
About Code
This month, pydyf v0.13.0 has been released. Among updating supported Python versions, a new function has been added to get safe name for PDF objects.
We finished to work on rewriting the repagination process in WeasyPrint. If you’re interested in this, you can have a look at the merged pull request and give a try to the main branch!
In July, we limited the number of opened pull requests per account to 1 and added contribution guidelines. It kind of helped us in August, or maybe it was just the holidays, who knows. But since September, the doubtful "contributions" got back.
So we took the decision to close pull requests on WeasyPrint, tinycss2, pydyf and Pyphen.
We can’t say how long it’ll be like this. We need time for us, for the projects and for thinking to a better process.
Not About Code
On October 12, it was CourtBouillon 6-year anniversary 🎂. As each year, we published an article to talk about our financial incomes, show some statistics on the different projects…
This month, there was no local Python meetup as there was the PyConFR in Biarritz 🌊.
We went to the conference for the whole 4 days and listen to several talks. We really enjoyed the talk of Amélie Dumont about code, typography and knitting, and the talk of Georgi Ker about the sustainability of open source in the future.
But what we enjoyed the most was people. Each year, the PyConFR is the moment where we see people we only see there. This year in particular, talking, laughing, even drawing, with real people in real life was so much refreshing.
Lucie gave a talk abut the impact of AI in our lives of open source maintainers. Support of the talk are available on GitHub, in French. We’ll keep you up-to-date when the video is available.
We’ll be at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse (France) on November 14 and 15. If you’re around, don’t hesitate to ping us!
Interesting Reading and Watching
The interesting reading and watching of this month, we got two items:
- Software developers are not okay — Baldur Bjarnason,
- Is it true that everything goes faster? — ARTE, available in French and in German.
In his video, Baldur Bjarnason talks about the transformation of the IT industry, how it becomes not for people and workers. It helps to put words on feelings we have.
The ARTE documentary talks about how technology helps us doing things, but also the counter part where we have less time for us. Several examples are used, but we can see the same patterns with other technologies.
See you next month for another Journey Book entry 💜