Human.json

I have seen more and more people talk about human.json lately and I think it is a pretty neat idea. From what I can tell it checks all the boxes I would expect from a protocol like this.

The fact that it relies on browser extensions right now makes sense, but might become a limiting factor in future. Or the number of extensions needs to go up beyond the two easy ones and come to mobile as well. I am not sure this will be going anywhere beyond a few enthusiastic people, but you never know.

Implementing the protocol was not much work, which is expected considering it only consists of two required values and an optional list of two more values. If you want to add it to your Django based site, I packaged everything up and you can find it on PyPI.

Should you use the package? Eh, that is not an easy question. From a supply chain perspective I would say "no". It is only a few lines of code. But you never know how the protocol will evolve, so things might look more complicated in a month. I will do my best to keep up with the protocol and not ship crypto miners.

I am still not a fan of Python packaging, but I have to admit uv makes it kind of bearable despite still not being without little gotchas.