Django Chat

Hosted by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson

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205

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May 2026

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

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May 20, 20261 hr 22 min

How France Ditched Microsoft - Samuel Paccoud

🔗 Links La Suite numérique on GitHub La Suite website Samuel on LinkedIn TechEmpower Benchmarks being sunsetted 📦 Projects django-live-translations django-bolt TechEmpower Benchmarks 📚 Books The Mikado Method The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A Confederacy of Dunces 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat 🤝 Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at https://sixfeetup.com/.

May 13, 202651 min

Deploy on Day One - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

🔗 Links SixFeetUp Careers getscaf, copier, tilt A CTOs Guide to AI Coding Assistants kind, nix, spec-kit Figma make 📦 Projects django-mail-auth disposable-email-domains turnstile django-modern-rest 📚 Books London Review of Books Big Panda & Tiny Dragon by James Norbury Universal Principles of Typography by Elliot Jay Stocks 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat 🤝 Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at https://sixfeetup.com/.

May 6, 202623 min

EuroPython 2026 - Mia Bajić

🔗 Links EuroPython 2026 website Mia’s personal website and podcast, Behind the Commit A Year on the EuroPython Society Board by Mia EuroPython 2025 in Prague Recap by Will Mia on LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSky Behind the Commit on YouTube 📚 Books Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman Hands on Rust by Herbert Wolverson 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat 🤝 Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at https://sixfeetup.com/.

April 29, 20261 hr 7 min

DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News - Jeff Triplett

🔗 Links 30% off PyCharm, 100% to Django promo REVSYS website Django News Newsletter new website Adopt Annual Release Cycle (DEP 20) Django on the Med - September 23rd to 25th in Pescara, Italy DSF Board Member Minutes Website Air: Agentic Development Environment 📦 Projects The Fixi Project Pydantic AI and CodexBar Zuban type checker and LSP 📚 Books The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever by Jessie Sima and Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat 🤝 Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at https://sixfeetup.com/.

April 15, 20261 hr 17 min

Django Tasks - Jake Howard

🔗 Links django-tasks and Jake's GitHub Jake's personal website DSF Member of the Month - Jake Howard DjangoCon Europe 2024: Empowering Django with Background Workers Django Forum - Steering Council Vote on Background Tasks PyCon UK 2025 Talk: Halt and Catch Fire: Forcefully Stopping Python Wagtail new security announcements channel Django new features repo Carlton’s Talk at PyTV on Mantle 📦 Projects microgpt Django-Mantle Django-Mantle-DRF 📚 Books The Passage by Justin Cronin Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon by Jenny Chase Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann 🎥 YouTube YouTube 🤝 Sponsor This episode was brought to you by Buttondown, the easiest way to start, send, and grow your email newsletter. New customers can save 50% off their first year with Buttondown using the coupon code DJANGO.

April 1, 202654 min

Boost Your GitHub DX - Adam Johnson

🔗 Links Adam's Books Introducing tprof Introducing icu4py Carlton's keynote at DjangoCon Europe Recent trends in the work of the Django Security Team 📦 Projects dj-urls-panel Hornbeam Tachyon 📚 Books The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman The BEAM Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime — Erik Stenman The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at https://sixfeetup.com/.

March 18, 202657 min

PyCon US 2026 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato

🔗 Links PyCon US website Volunteer mailing list Elaine on LinkedIn and Jon's personal site 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at sixfeetup.com.

March 11, 20261 hr 17 min

From Kenya to London with Django - Velda Kiara

🔗 Links Velda at RevSys Velda’s Substack: The Storyteller's Byte Tales Velda on GitHub Optimal Performance Over Basic as a Perfectionist with Deadlines More about me Neapolitan 📦 Projects django-linkcheck adamghill/django-lsp django-debug-toolbar 📚 Books A History of the Bible by John Barton Python Mastery, a course from David Beazley Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 🎥 YouTube YouTube Sponsor This episode was brought to you by Buttondown, the easiest way to start, send, and grow your email newsletter. New customers can save 50% off their first year with Buttondown using the coupon code DJANGO.

February 25, 20261 hr 0 min

Freelancing & Community - Andrew Miller

🔗 Links Personal website GitHub, Mastodon, and LinkedIn In Progress podcast Hamilton Rock Comprehension Debt Builder Methods 📦 Projects django-prodserver django-health-check Online Community Working Group 📚 Books How to Build a LLM From Scratch by Sebastian Raschka World of Astrom Rob Walling books Jonathan Stark books David Kadavy books Manifesto of winning without pitching 🎥 YouTube YouTube Channel: @djangochat Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Six Feet Up, the Python, Django, and AI experts who solve hard software problems. Whether it’s scaling an application, deriving insights from data, or getting results from AI, Six Feet Up helps you move forward faster. See what’s possible at sixfeetup.com.

February 11, 20261 hr 0 min

Improving Django - Adam Hill

🔗 LinksAdam’s Personal WebsiteDjango Brew podcastAdam’s GitHub profileRedesigned Django HomepageAllDjango.comnew-featuresdjango-api-frameworks📦 Projectsdjango-taskssuitenumeriqueDjango Rapid Architecture📚 BooksA River Runs Through It by Norman MacleanNightmare Alley filmLondon Review of Books & Le Monde Diplomatique🎥 YouTubeYouTube Channel: @djangochatSponsorThis episode was brought to you by Buttondown, the easiest way to start, send, and grow your email newsletter. New customers can save 50% off their first year with Buttondown using the coupon code DJANGO.