Episodes

  • PyCon US 2026 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato
    Mar 18 2026

    🔗 Links

    • PyCon US website
    • Volunteer mailing list
    • Elaine on LinkedIn and Jon's personal site

    🎥 YouTube

    • YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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    57 mins
  • From Kenya to London with Django - Velda Kiara
    Mar 11 2026

    🔗 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
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Freelancing & Community - Andrew Miller
    Feb 25 2026

    🔗 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
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    1 hr
  • Improving Django - Adam Hill
    Feb 11 2026

    🔗 Links

    • Adam’s Personal Website
    • Django Brew podcast
    • Adam’s GitHub profile
    • Redesigned Django Homepage
    • AllDjango.com
    • new-features
    • django-api-frameworks

    📦 Projects

    • django-tasks
    • suitenumerique
    • Django Rapid Architecture

    📚 Books

    • A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
    • Nightmare Alley film
    • London Review of Books & Le Monde Diplomatique

    🎥 YouTube

    • YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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    1 hr
  • Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken
    Jan 28 2026

    🔗 Links

    • PythonTest website
    • pytest book and Lean TDD
    • Python Bytes podcast
    • Test and Code podcast
    • Python People podcast
    • Django Packages website
    • django-msgspec-field
    • Ruff rules
    • How to Hide an Empire book
    • Python Polars — The Definitive Guide
    • Little Brother by Cory Doctorow + There There by Tommy Orange

    🎥 YouTube

    • YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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    44 mins
  • Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
    Jan 15 2026

    🔗 Links

    • Farhan's personal site and GitHub
    • django-bolt
    • django-repl
    • turbo-orm
    • bombardier
    • Robyn web framework
    • Reddit thread on Django Bolt vs Django Ninja vs FastAPI
    • Developer Productivity AI Arena

    🎥 YouTube

    • YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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    58 mins
  • From Bootcamp to Project Manager - Keanya Phelps
    Dec 24 2025

    🔗 Links

    • Behind the Curtain as a Conference Chair blog post
    • DjangoCon US Conference Chair
    • Opening Remarks and Closing Remarks at DjangoCon US
    • PG Data 2026 Conference
    • DjangoCon US: Call for Venue Proposals 2027-28

    📦 Projects

    • django-crontask

    📚 Books

    • Just Use Postgres book
    • Until the End of Time book

    🎥 YouTube

    • YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Django 6.0 - Natalia Bidart
    Dec 11 2025
    • Django 6.0 Released blog post and release notes
    • Deprecations Don't Work for Python Libraries
    • Django Forum - Should We Adjust Django's Versioning?
    • django-repl and django-bolt
    • Template Fragments essay on HTMX.org
    • django-tasks
    • What's New in Django 6.0 by Adam Johnson
    • DjangoCon Europe 2024 | Empowering Django with Background Workers
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    53 mins