Tomorrow, I am taking a very early morning flight to Chicago to attend DjangoCon US. Buttondown is sponsoring, less as an exercise in lead generation and more as an act of circuitous open source sponsorship, and perhaps "sponsorship" is not quite the right word compared to gratuity in the most literal sense. I have been writing Django for fourteen years now: I started during 1.3, a hinterlands time that I remember mostly in two respects:
