Django Chat

A biweekly podcast about the Django web framework by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson.

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Episode 164:

· 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 …

Episode 163:

· 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 …

Episode 162:

· 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 …

Episode 161:

· 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 …

Episode 160:

· 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, …

Episode 159:

· 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.

Episode 158:

· 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, …

Episode 157:

· 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 …

Episode 156:

· 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 …

Episode 155:

· 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 …

Episode 154:

· 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 …

Episode 153:

· 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, …

Episode 152:

· 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 …

Episode 151:

· 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.

Episode 150:

· 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 …

Episode 149:

· 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 …

Episode 148:

· 64 MIN

PyCharm's Year of Django - Paul Everitt

Paul Everitt is a Python advocate at JetBrains, the maker of PyCharm. We discuss what makes PyCharm a powerful Python IDE, its current “year of Django” focus, and why testing isn’t about …

Episode 147:

· 50 MIN

Django and iOS - Filip Němeček

Filip is a Django and iOS developer. We discuss his switch over to Django for backend APIs, the current status of iOS development, VR headsets, and more.

Episode 146:

· 52 MIN

Git and Django 5.0 - Adam Johnson

Adam is a prolific figure in the Django community and the author of a new book, Boost Your Git DX. We discuss the latest Django 5.0 alpha release, how to use aliases, …

Episode 145:

· 58 MIN

Contributing to Django - David Smith (Ep97 Replay)

David is an accountant who has contributed massively to Django in recent years, taking over django-crispy-forms, improving djangobench, and becoming a member of Django’s Triage and Review team.