
Django Chat
A biweekly podcast on the Django Web Framework by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson.
Latest episodes

41 snips
May 29, 2024 • 1h 7min
Buttondown - Justin Duke
Tech entrepreneur Justin Duke from Buttondown discusses Django's evolution, workflow logic, email industry challenges, and desired improvements to Django including modern authentication options and enhancing the admin tool for better customization.

May 15, 2024 • 1h 18min
Funding Open Source - Jeff Triplett
Guest Jeff Triplett discusses streamlining Django development with Crowd view, testing best practices, dynamics at DjangoCon, open-source project challenges, centralizing Django job listings, and funding obstacles in this insightful podcast episode.

68 snips
May 1, 2024 • 1h 15min
Self-Hosted Open Source - Michael Kennedy
Self-Hosted Open Source expert Michael Kennedy discusses challenges with self-hosting email lists, high costs of marketing email services, navigating cloud hosting vs. self-hosting, investments in tech businesses, managing open source solutions, evolution of server management, and insights on scalability and affordability in hosting.

7 snips
Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 9min
Kraken - Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez
Experienced Django developer Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez shares insights on their software development journey, the evolution of Django, challenges in the Django community, building a diverse community, testing culture, Django Ninja and GraphQL, domain-driven design, and community contributions within Kraken teams.

26 snips
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h
Django ORM - Simon Charette
Django ORM expert Simon Charette discusses his journey from PHP to Django, contributions to ORM and typing enhancements, evolution of SQLite, optimizing web app performance, and fine-tuning ORM queries for efficiency.

70 snips
Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 9min
Django’s Evolution - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Exploring Django's evolution, principles, and challenges faced by a local newspaper. Formation of Django Software Foundation, evolution of leadership, and community involvement discussed. Future of Django with HTMX and deployment challenges in Django projects highlighted. Updates on Django 4.2, teaching challenges, and simplifying deployment also covered.

Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 6min
The Future of Python - Deb Nicholson
Deb Nicholson discusses misconceptions about PSF, diverse roles in nonprofit work, funding initiatives, COVID precautions for events, PSF's engagement in legislative matters, enhancing security in Django, challenges in Python development, and the future of Python's accessibility and PSF's vision.

Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 1min
GeoDjango - Harout Boujakjian and Andrew Hornstra
Exploration of developing a multi-platform app with Django backend and native front ends, challenges in tech search and PWA development, team scaling strategies, efficient server management with Ansible, optimizing database queries and client-side image handling, and the journey into Django and GeoDjango.

5 snips
Feb 7, 2024 • 56min
From Django Girls to the Django Software Foundation - Kátia Nakamura
Kátia Nakamura, from Django Girls and the Django Software Foundation, discusses topics such as transitioning from Python to Java, obtaining a visa and language barriers, leaving her job and joining Fly.io, lightning talks and the challenge of technical talks in a foreign language, living in Germany and integrating fly with Django, and discussing Duolingo challenges, passion for coding, and hosting conferences.

39 snips
Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 5min
Datasette, LLMs, and Django - Simon Willison
Simon Willison, creator of Datasette and LLMs, discusses topics including improving Django's default user model, leveraging tools like co-pilot and LLMs, generating release notes with GPT-4, positive impacts of technology tools, exploring dataset's enrichments feature, and securely running software on dataset cloud.