Django Tasks - Jake Howard

Jake is a Senior Systems Engineer at Torchbox and the author of DEP 14, django.tasks, the highlight feature in Django 6.0. We discuss his work on the Django security team, work with Wagtail, AI dabblings, and more.

🔗 Links

• django-tasks: https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/django-tasks
• Jake's GitHub: https://github.com/realorangeone
• Jake's personal website: https://theorangeone.net/
• DSF Member of the Month - Jake Howard: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/aug/03/dsf-member-of-the-month-jake-howard/
• DjangoCon Europe 2024: Empowering Django with Background Workers: https://youtu.be/RxcRBNqxjeY?si=oO4KiUmBL-Y0oymC
• Django Forum - Steering Council Vote on Background Tasks: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/steering-council-vote-on-background-tasks-dep-14/31131
• PyCon UK 2025 Talk: Halt and Catch Fire: Forcefully Stopping Python: https://theorangeone.net/talks/forcefully-stopping-python/
• Wagtail new security announcements channel: https://wagtail.org/blog/new-security-announcements-channel/
• Django new features repo: https://github.com/django/new-features
• Carlton’s Talk at PyTV on Mantle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKkyBhXIJJU&t=10591s

📦 Projects

• microgpt: https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
• Django-Mantle: https://noumenal.es/mantle/
• Django-Mantle-DRF: https://noumenal.es/mantle-drf/

📚 Books

• The Passage by Justin Cronin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passage_\(Cronin_novel\)
• Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon by Jenny Chase: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0219
• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781491903063/

🎥 YouTube

• YouTube: @djangochat

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