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· 65 MIN
Thibaud Colas - 2025 DSF Board Nominations
Thibaud is a Django Software Foundation Board Member (Secretary) and serves on the Django accessibility team. He is also on the core team for Wagtail and works at Torchbox. We discuss the …
· 68 MIN
DjangoCon US 2024 Recap - Tim Schilling
Tim is the Secretary of DEFNA, the organization that runs DjangoCon US each year. He is also a founder of Djangonaut.space, maintainer of django-debug-toolbar, Google Summer of Code mentor, and more. We …
· 54 MIN
Django Fellows - Natalia Bidart & Sarah Boyce
Our two Django Fellows join us to discuss new features in the Django 5.1 release, major improvements to accessibility, future updates in Django 5.2 and 6.0, and more.
· 44 MIN
Fall 2024 Podcast Relaunch
We’re back! This mini-episode starts off the fall season and focuses on what’s new in Django, upcoming DjangoCon US talks, our thoughts on the User model, Carlton’s new Stack Report newsletter, mentoring …
· 67 MIN
Buttondown - Justin Duke
Justin is the founder of Buttondown, a newsletter service built with Django. We discuss scaling the code and the team behind the project, the email space in general, new developments in web …
· 78 MIN
Funding Open Source - Jeff Triplett
Jeff is a partner at RevSys, a former Director and Vice Chair of the Python Software Foundation, and co-founder/former President of DEFNA. We discuss recent Django third-party packages, djangopackages.org, function-based and class-based …
· 75 MIN
Self-Hosted Open Source - Michael Kennedy
Michael hosts the Talk Python podcast, co-hosts Python Bytes, and runs courses at Talk Python Training. We discuss his recent shift to mainly self-hosted open-source options for everything from marketing emails to …
· 69 MIN
Kraken - Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez
Çağıl is a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech, Django Software Foundation Vice President, and Django London Meetup co-organizer. We discuss her background studying computer science in Turkey, organizing DjangoGirls and Python …
· 60 MIN
Django ORM - Simon Charette
Simon is a longstanding contributor to Django and a member of the Steering Council and the Security Team. We discuss his current work at Zapier, type hints, django-ninja vs Django REST Framework, …
· 69 MIN
Django’s Evolution - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob is a co-creator of Django. We discuss Django’s early design decisions, community consensus vs the BDFL approach, HTMX, deployment, and more.
· 66 MIN
The Future of Python - Deb Nicholson
Deb is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation and a longtime member of open-source communities. We discuss the work of an executive director, the PSF’s new Developers-in-Residence, recent legislative efforts, …
· 61 MIN
GeoDjango - Harout Boujakjian and Andrew Hornstra
Harout and Andrew are the engineers behind pinplanet, a free Django-based mobile app to pin where you’ve been. We discuss moving from a PWA to native iOS, Kotlin for Android, testing and …
· 56 MIN
From Django Girls to the Django Software Foundation - Kátia Nakamura
Kátia is a Board Member of the Django Software Foundation and a Framework Engineer at Fly.io. We discuss her academic background in Brazil, moving to Europe to study and work, and rotating …
· 65 MIN
Datasette, LLMs, and Django - Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a co-creator of Django who is currently working on Datasette and writes actively on AI/LLMs. We discuss the current state of web technology, his role as a director of …
· 59 MIN
Accessibility - Sarah Abderemane
Sarah is a Backend Developer at Octopus Energy and a member of the Django Accessibility team. We discuss her work improving the Django docs and admin, starting the Djangonaut Space program, organizing …
· 63 MIN
Understand Django - Matt Layman
Matt Layman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Included Health and the author of a recent book, Understand Django. We discuss running a Django monolith at scale in the healthcare space, …
· 58 MIN
Kolo for Django - Lily Foote
Lily is a developer at Klopp Industries where she’s working on Kolo, a dynamic code analysis tool for Django. We discuss her recent PRs on the Django ORM, serialization, type hints, and …
· 60 MIN
Web Security - Mackenzie Jackson
Mackenzie is a developer advocate at GitGuardian. We discuss handling security reports in Django, the pros and cons of environment variables, why ChatGPT is a security concern, and more.
· 54 MIN
Contributing to Django - Sarah Boyce
Sarah is a British developer based in Germany who is a member of Django’s Review and Triage Team. She is also a co-organizer of Djangonaut Space, a new mentorship program to onboard …
· 64 MIN
Becoming a Django Fellow - Natalia Bidart
Natalia Bidart is a developer from Argentina who is the newest Django Fellow. We discuss her background in computing, her career at Canonical, consulting, and getting up to speed on the Django …