Django Chat

Apr 02 2025 180 ep. 50 mins 742
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A biweekly podcast on the Django Web Framework by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson.

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PyCon US 2025 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato

Apr 02 2025 62 mins  
Elaine and Jon are the Chair and Co-Chair of PyCon US, taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, this May. We discuss how to make the most of a conference, in-person vs online, what to wear, and more.

Django and Rust Tooling - Lily Foote

Mar 19 2025 47 mins  
Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more.

Sticking with Django - Florian Apolloner

Mar 05 2025 74 mins  
Florian is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django over the last 20 years, switching over to `uv`, why he’s not a fan of environment variables, and drawing inspiration from other frameworks.

Official Django MongoDB Backend - Jib Adegunloye

Feb 19 2025 62 mins  
Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.

The Future of Django - Emma Delescolle

Feb 05 2025 63 mins  
Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, what it can learn from the Ember community, class-based views, django-ninja, and more.

Beyond Golden Pathways - Teaching Django with Sheena O’Connell

Jan 22 2025 74 mins  
Sheena is a long-time Django developer and teacher currently focused on Prelude Tech, small workshops focused on topics like Django, HTMX, and Git.

Django in 2025

Jan 08 2025 50 mins  
Carlton and Will catch up after the holidays and look ahead to Django news in 2025, new tools, new roles, launching the LearnDjango.com site, upcoming Django events, and more.

pretix - Raphael Michel

Dec 11 2024 58 mins  
Raphael is the founder of pretix, an open-source ticketing platform. We discuss its early iterations, the technical challenges of ticketing, using Celery and Django REST Framework, DecimalField vs IntegerField for currency, and more.

Python Tooling - Hynek Schlawack

Nov 27 2024 66 mins  
Hynek is a core Python contributor, author of the popular attrs library, and an engineer at Variomedia, a Germany-based web hosting company. We discuss Python performance, tooling (especially uv), and more.

Django for the Meat Industry - Bryton Wishart

Nov 13 2024 50 mins  
Bryton is the co-founder of Cured Compliance, an Australia-based startup providing compliance software for butchers. We discuss the inspiration behind the product, building it from scratch with Django, multitenancy, using Django Q, managing iOT with temperature gauges, and more.