Django Chat

By William Vincent and Carlton GibsonTechnology Education

Django Chat episodes

October 21Django in Space - Loes Crama
🔗 Links
Loes on LinkedIn
cosine
Djangocon EU: How Django is helping to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date - Loes Crama
📦 Projects
Marimo
django-ses
django-anymail
📚 Books
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong
🎥 YouTube
YouTube Channel: @djangochat
56 min
October 14Hiring in 2026 - Jon Gould
🔗 Links
Foxley Talent
Foxley Talent YouTube
People or Code show on YouTube and Spotify
📚 Books
The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle [Carlton]
The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and Jon Mann
📦 Projects
FarhanAliRaza/prongs — run just the tests you edited
justinmayer/django-benchmark - Django performance benchmark profiler
🎥 YouTube
YouTube Channel: @djangochat
56 min
September 30Django on the Med
🔗 Links
Django on the Med
New technical governance approved (DEP 19)
Executive director search extended
DjangoCon Europe 2027 (Innsbruck, Austria)
django-bgt
django-benchmark
Open DEPs pull requests from Django on the Med
📚 Books
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
The Wall by Marlen Hausofer
🎥 YouTube
YouTube Channel: @djangochat
37 min
August 24Django Developers Survey 2026
🔗 Links
2026 Django Developers Survey Results

Django 6.1 release notes

Talk Python #446: Updates on Django's Async Story with Carlton

Choose Boring Technology
🎥 YouTube
YouTube Channel: @djangochat
50 min
May 20How 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
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1 hr 23 min
May 13Deploy 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
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52 min
May 06EuroPython 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
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24 min
April 29DjangoCon 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
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1 hr 8 min
April 15Django 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
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1 hr 18 min
April 01Boost 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
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Sponsor
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55 min