Daniele Procida

Director of Engineering at Canonical. Django core developer.

Home page: https://vurt.eu
Work with me: https://canonical.com/documentation/work-and-careers

Last Notes

2025-12-18 12:13:42 GMT

My colleague Sharon Koech has written an excellent retrospective of her year as a technical author at Canonical https://substack.com/home/post/p-181747703, full of ambition and adventure and effort that makes a difference in work.
@npub1ttv…t5a7 @npub12ln…vs03

2025-08-14 08:26:29 GMT

Workshops and sprints at DjangoCon/UbuCon Africa - five sessions in parallel and the whole conference has stayed on to take part, contribute and keep learning.
Photos from the multi-tenant databases, django CMS, documentation, AI in Django workshops.
#DjangoConAfrica #UbuConAfrica
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2025-08-13 06:21:22 GMT

Day three of DjangoCon/UbuCon Africa 2025 begins #DjangoConAfrica #UbuConAfrica
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2025-08-11 07:22:48 GMT

DjangoCon/UbuCon Africa 2025 is underway in Arusha, Tanzania.
#DjangoConAfrica #UbuConAfrica
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2025-05-17 17:39:09 GMT

I've just got home after two weeks of travel for work and was surprised to find a book waiting for me - Python for Mathematics, by @npub1vuk…9zyc - and even more surprised, and very touched, to read the dedication.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003451860/python-mathematics-vincent-knight
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2025-03-16 13:17:15 GMT

I will be running a workshop (two sessions, free, online) on Diátaxis and documentation success, planned for late April.
This workshop will be exclusively for contributors to open knowledge projects - OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, and so on.
https://vurt.org/events/workshops-april-2025/

2024-09-25 21:04:00 GMT

PyCon Africa @npub1uv6…zuj2 really ought to have more followers on Mastodon.
The conference is taking place right now in Accra, Ghana https://africa.pycon.org, with a five-day programme featuring speakers from all over the continent and beyond.

2024-08-26 16:08:01 GMT

https://vurt.org/articles/twelve-rules/
Many candidates come into our hiring process at Canonical, and don’t do as well as I think they should. This is the advice I wish I could have given them.