Ep185 - DjangoCon US Recap is out! We're back after the summer break, discussing DjangoCon US last week, Django 6.0 feature freeze, adding APIs to core Django, and Django on the Med next month.
We are back tomorrow... new video format (and audio still), spicy hot takes courtesy of @Carlton Gibson , and back to our regular fortnightly schedule going forward. 🎀
Ep #184: PHP Frameworks with Roman Pronskiy is live! Roman Pronskiy is the Executive Director of the The PHP Foundation and a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. We discuss PHP’s evolution over the years, Laravel vs Symfony, and what hashtag#Python can learn from the PHP ecosystem.
Ep183: Django Deployments in 2025 with Eric Matthes is now live! Eric is the author of Python Crash Course, the Mostly Python newsletter, and the django-simple-deploy package. We talk about rewriting the Django deployment story, different hosting providers, and teaching Python & Django to newcomers. image
Ep182: Event Sourcing with Chris May is now live! [@_chrismay]( ) is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning #Python (and #Django as an adult, his multiple conference talks on #HTMX, why he’s a fan of event sourcing, and more. image
Ep181: DjangoCon Europe 2025 recap is now live! A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway track highlights.
New podcast with the Chairs of PyConUS Elaine Wong and Jon Banafato, taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, this May. Learn how to make the most of the conference, what to wear, and more. @PyCon US @Elaine Wong @Jon Banafato
Django Chat Podcast #178, Django and Rust Tooling with Lily Foote, is now live! Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more.
Episode 177: Sticking with Django w/ Florian Apolloner is live! @Florian Apolloner is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django over the last 20 years, switching over to `uv`, why he’s not a fan of environment variables, and drawing inspiration from other frameworks.
Django Chat #176: Official Django MongoDB Backend with Jib Adegunloye is now live! Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.