Every time I see someone saying “Oh no, I missed the CFP deadline”, I can’t help thinking about all those features in Python or Django that were deprecated for years… and then someone is shocked when they finally get removed. 🫠

Weeks of announcements. Years of warnings. Deprecation messages in the logs. And still: surprise. 😅

Maybe warnings and deadlines only become real the day after they expire. 🪄

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