Django Brew

Hosted by Sangeeta Jadoonanan & Adam Hill

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Jan 2026

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A fun, caffeine-powered podcast about the Django web framework by Adam Hill and Sangeeta Jadoonanan!

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January 21, 2026Episode 735 min

Episode 7: The Definitely Not 3 Months Too Late DjangoCon US 2025 Recap

Adam and Sangeeta "deep-dish" dive into DjangoCon US 2025: Chicago edition! DjangoCon US 2025 🦄 Conference website YouTube playlist Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology: How The Nintendo Philosophy Applies to Modern Web Development by Carson Gross All the Ways to Use Django by Zags Using SQLite in Production lightning talk by Adam Referenced topics 🗞️ Jobs to Be Done product development framework Django needs a REST story Background tasks in Django 6.0 Fighting Homelessness with Django by Zags Django SQLite Production Config by Anže Gotchas with SQLite in Production by Anže BeeSocial 🐝 BeeSocial : sign up today! SQLite HTMX DaisyUI TailwindCSS SortableJS Hetzner : Cloud host Coolify : opensource PAAS Litestream : SQLite replication Cloudflare R2 Chicago 🌭 The Chicago Bean The Weiner Circle Karen's Diner Chit-chat 🧪 The Substance Labubus! Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

August 17, 2025Episode 642 min

Episode 6: Celebrating 20 Years of Django

Adam and Sangeeta reflect on 20 things that they love about Django and play a fun (20-question, of course!) Django trivia game! Django Birthday 🎂 20th Birthday events Happy 20th birthday Django from Simon Willison Django Timeline A Brief History of Django with Frank Wiles From the chat ☕️ Django Potential Names Sarah Boyce Django Upgrade tutorial Adrian and Jacob retire as BDFLs Django Chat episode with Carl Meyer (Instagram) Django community ❤️ Forum, Discord, and more! DjangoCon US Django Girls+ Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

May 16, 2025Episode 549 min

Episode 5: Chocolately Django REST APIs

Where Sangeeta and Adam talk about how to build REST APIs in Django. We talk about using the built-in JsonResponse , Django REST Framework , and Django Ninja . Intro ☕️ What is REST What is an API Design of Everyday Things Design of Everyday APIs PyCon 2024 Talk Apple Human Interface Guidelines Electrolyte coffee Blue Bottle coffee Ember mug Building REST APIs with Django 🔨 Django JSON Response DjangoBrew Forms episode LaMetric and Tidbyt programmable displays Django Rest Framework (aka DRF) Django Ninja FastAPI Pydantic The Django Brew Pantry Chit Chat 🍫 Severance Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pee Wee Herman Man Vs Bee Don't Worry Darling Dubai chocolate Tony Chocolonely Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

December 21, 2024Episode 454 min

Episode 4: Spoiler Alert: DjangoCon US Recap, Open Source Maintenance, and Other Spooky Stories

We're back and ready to spill the beans on our summer, DjangoCon US 2024, and some fun coffee concoctions we learned about! Our fun summer! Staycation 🌴 Danish cookies/everyone's favorite sewing kit tin 🇩🇰 Dalgona coffee recipe ☕️ Squid Game 🦑 Django Stickers 2nd edition 👻 Django Day Copenhagen 2024 and Django London Meetup DjangoCon US 2024 talks + recap DjangoCon US 2024 Strava group Day 1 Keynote by Sheena O'Connell Day 2 Keynote by Mario Munoz Day 3 Keynote by Natalia Bidart Carlton Gibson's talk Day 3 Panel discussion Adam's projects mentioned - Django Unicorn , Coltrane , dj-angles Djangonaut Space Djangonaut Space Session 2 Open Source Maintenance Jazzband and Django Commons Antirez blogpost - End of the Redis adventure Django Enhancment Proposal (DEP) 14: Background Workers Chit-chat Django Admin Dracula 🧛 Café Bustelo vaccum sealed brick 🧱 Black and Bold Dark Roast Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

July 1, 2024Episode 341 min

Episode 3: Elusive Coffee in the Multiverse of PyCon

Sangeeta and Adam talk about going to PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh So. Many. Bridges. PPG Place Market Square How to make vegan fudge Nicholas Coffee and Tea Co. Funicular Monongahela Incline Mt. Washington Velum Fermentation (pinball!) Andy Warhol Museum Talks PyScript Making Your Documentation Interactive with PyScript Interactive Software Documentation, with PyScript Build in-browser 3D experiences with WebGL and PyScript Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13 Rust Ruff: An Extremely Fast Python Linter and Code Formatter, Written in Rust Building a Rusty path validation library for PyCA Cryptography Pydantic Power-up: Performance Tips for Lightning-Fast Python Applications How Python Harnesses Rust through PyO3 Simon Willison LLMs keynote The Design of Everyday APIs If Statements Are a Code Smell (PyCon 2020) Chit-chat How do you say Guido's name ? Cafe Bustelo washed up in Florida Black and Bold coffee delivery Electrolyte-infused coffee Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

May 10, 2024Episode 232 min

Episode 2: Sudsy Forms and Spicy Takes

Prepare for a post-apocalyptic rollercoaster adventure, filled with ghost peppers, into the magical realm of soapy forms! See you at PyCon 2024! We’ll be sipping coffee at PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh ! See you there! 👋 Form References Django Forms are just an abstraction over HTML HTML Form element Django Form class Django Form widget Outputting forms as HTML Rendering Form errors Model Forms Model Form validation Other Form Stuff How Shrek swamped a restaurant server - why we need server-side validation Longest place name in the world - Testing character limi... 😉 Third-party Libraries HTMX - AJAXify your HTML (for people who dislike JavaScript) django-crispy-forms - stylish Django forms django-crispy-bulma-forms - Bulma-ify Django forms django-widget-tweaks - template tags and filters for forms Unfiltered Takes The Django Brew Pantry - Django Brew example code repo Cafe Bustelo - the best coffee for killing zombies Zombieland - maybe all those preservatives are good for something Hot Ones Challenge - are you up for the challenge? (Adam is not) Busch Gardens straight-drop roller coaster - gravity-defying rollercoaster (not for Sangeeta’s glasses) Sound effects from quicksounds and pond5 🎵 Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

April 4, 2024Episode 134 min

Episode 1: Fried-green introverts

This podcast is chock full of goodness about DjangoCon 2023 ! Conference talks: HTML-ivating your Django web app's experience with HTMX, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML by Chris May - build interactive (and speedy) websites with Django Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL by Noah Kantrowitz - "embrace the monolith" and use Django to quickly build side projects while reducing complexity Postgres Performance: From Slow to Pro by Elizabeth Christensen - deep dive into how to speed up your Postgres database Don't buy the "A.I" Hype by Tim Allen - staying pragmatic about AI and new technology amidst media hype Finding Purpose in Open Source Through Community Building by Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe - Abigail's stories and lessons throughout her open-source journey Navigating Django's Future: Djangonaut Space by Dawn Wages and Rachell Calhoun - the new innovative mentorship program aimed at growing Django core contributors Other fun stuff: DjangoCon 2019 - Adam's first DjangoCon Choose Boring Technology - you only have a few innovation "tokens", be conscientious where you spend them on any project Django Stickers - see all the fun stickers Adam and Sangeeta handed out Fried Green Tomatoes - the lunch item that stole the show at DjangoCon US 2023! Bonavita Connoisseur Coffee Brewer - Adam's favorite coffee maker (yeah, he's a little obsessed) Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶

March 7, 202412 min

Episode 0: Intros, memes, and tater-tots

In this pilot, we introduce this brand new podcast and talk about our Django origin stories! Check out more episodes at djangobrew.com ! ☕️ Please give us 5 stars and a review anywhere you get your podcasts! (Unless you don't think we deserve 5 stars, in which case, you can keep your opinions to yourself!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ See what's brewing! 👉 Follow Sangeeta and Adam on Mastodon if you can't get enough of our sparkling personalities! ✨ 👉 Follow the Django Brew podcast on Mastodon to get the latest updates! ✨ The podcast music provided by Pixabay 🎶