Django Chat

By William Vincent and Carlton GibsonTechnology Education

Django Chat episodes

February 25Freelancing & 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
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1 hr 1 min
February 11Improving Django - Adam Hill
🔗 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
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1 hr 1 min
January 28Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken
🔗 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
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44 min
January 15Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
🔗 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
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YouTube Channel: @djangochat
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59 min
December 24, 2025From Bootcamp to Project Manager - Keanya Phelps
🔗 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
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1 hr 12 min
December 11, 2025Django 6.0 - Natalia Bidart
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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54 min
November 26, 2025AI in the Real World - Marlene Mhangami & Tim Allen
Marlene’s personal website and Tim’s
Keynote: Django Reimagined For The Age of AI by Marlene at DjangoCon US and GitHub repo
What a Decade! by Tim at DjangoCon US
Django Girls Offline
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1 hr 12 min
November 12, 2025Django 20 Years Later - Adrian Holovaty
🔗 Links
Adrian’s personal website
Soundslice
Django Book
MusicXML
MNX specification
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1 hr 9 min
October 27, 2025Django Survey 2025 - Jeff Triplett
🔗 Links
The State of Django blog post with highlights
Django Survey Results
Django Fundraising page
Django Ecosystem Page
DEFNA Call for 2027 Venue Proposals
Laravel MCP and Laravel Boost
RevSys, Jeff's personal website, and micro blog
Django News newsletter
Django TV
Django Packages
📦 Projects
django-prodserver
Atuin Desktop
environs
📚 Books
Why Machines Learn
Efficient Linux at the Command Line
Jessie Sima books
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1 hr 7 min
October 21, 2025Django on the Med - Paolo Melchiorre
🔗 Links
Django on the Med and #DjangoOnTheMed hashtag
Paolo Melchiorre’s Website and LinkedIn
My Django on the Med post
Django GitHub Issues for Django on the Med
django-rapid and django-bolt
Django: One ORM to Rule Them All
📦 Projects
django-http-compression
basedpyright
Python 3.14 uuid
📚 Books
How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
Django for Professionals by William Vincent
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
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43 min