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September 11, 2025

My GSoC 2025 Journey: Bringing Template Partials to Django Core

How I spent my Google Summer of Code 2025 bringing django-template-partials into Django core, featuring architecture mysteries, regex nightmares, and the elegant solution that was hiding in plain sight all along.

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July 21, 2025

From Not Knowing Programming Was a Job to GSoC and Contributing to Django Core

My unlikely journey from a small town where I'd never met a programmer, through discovering coding via a Bollywood hacking movie, to contributing to Django's core framework during Google Summer of Code 2025. A story about community, growth, and finding your path in open source.

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