Adam and Sangeeta "deep-dish" dive into DjangoCon US 2025: Chicago edition!

DjangoCon US 2025 🦄

• Conference website
• YouTube playlist
• Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology: How The Nintendo Philosophy Applies to Modern Web Development by Carson Gross
• All the Ways to Use Django by Zags
• Using SQLite in Production lightning talk by Adam

Referenced topics 🗞️

• Jobs to Be Done product development framework
• Django needs a REST story
• Background tasks in Django 6.0
• Fighting Homelessness with Django by Zags
• Django SQLite Production Config by Anže
• Gotchas with SQLite in Production by Anže

BeeSocial 🐝

• BeeSocial: sign up today!
• SQLite
• HTMX
• DaisyUI
• TailwindCSS
• SortableJS
• Hetzner: Cloud host
• Coolify: opensource PAAS
• Litestream: SQLite replication
• Cloudflare R2

Chicago 🌭

• The Chicago Bean
• The Weiner Circle
• Karen's Diner

Chit-chat 🧪

• The Substance
• Labubus!

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Adam and Sangeeta reflect on 20 things that they love about Django and play a fun (20-question, of course!) Django trivia game!

Django Birthday 🎂

• 20th Birthday events
• Happy 20th birthday Django from Simon Willison
• Django Timeline
• A Brief History of Django with Frank Wiles

From the chat ☕️

• Django Potential Names
• Sarah Boyce Django Upgrade tutorial
• Adrian and Jacob retire as BDFLs
• Django Chat episode with Carl Meyer (Instagram)

Django community ❤️

• Forum, Discord, and more!
• DjangoCon US
• Django Girls+

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Where Sangeeta and Adam talk about how to build REST APIs in Django. We talk about using the built-in JsonResponse, Django REST Framework, and Django Ninja.

Intro ☕️

• What is REST
• What is an API
• Design of Everyday Things
• Design of Everyday APIs PyCon 2024 Talk
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Electrolyte coffee
• Blue Bottle coffee
• Ember mug

Building REST APIs with Django 🔨

• Django JSON Response
• DjangoBrew Forms episode
• LaMetric and Tidbyt programmable displays
• Django Rest Framework (aka DRF)
• Django Ninja
• FastAPI
• Pydantic
• The Django Brew Pantry

Chit Chat 🍫

• Severance
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Pee Wee Herman
• Man Vs Bee
• Don't Worry Darling
• Dubai chocolate
• Tony Chocolonely

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We're back and ready to spill the beans on our summer, DjangoCon US 2024, and some fun coffee concoctions we learned about!

Our fun summer!

• Staycation 🌴
• Danish cookies/everyone's favorite sewing kit tin 🇩🇰
• Dalgona coffee recipe ☕️
• Squid Game 🦑
• Django Stickers 2nd edition 👻
• Django Day Copenhagen 2024 and Django London Meetup

DjangoCon US 2024 talks + recap

• DjangoCon US 2024 Strava group
• Day 1 Keynote by Sheena O'Connell
• Day 2 Keynote by Mario Munoz
• Day 3 Keynote by Natalia Bidart
• Carlton Gibson's talk
• Day 3 Panel discussion
• Adam's projects mentioned - Django Unicorn, Coltrane, dj-angles

Djangonaut Space

• Djangonaut Space Session 2

Open Source Maintenance

• Jazzband and Django Commons
• Antirez blogpost - End of the Redis adventure
• Django Enhancment Proposal (DEP) 14: Background Workers

Chit-chat

• Django Admin Dracula 🧛
• Café Bustelo vaccum sealed brick 🧱
• Black and Bold Dark Roast

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Sangeeta and Adam talk about going to PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Pittsburgh

• So. Many. Bridges.
• PPG Place
• Market Square
• How to make vegan fudge
• Nicholas Coffee and Tea Co.
• Funicular
• Monongahela Incline
• Mt. Washington
• Velum Fermentation (pinball!)
• Andy Warhol Museum

Talks

• PyScript
• Making Your Documentation Interactive with PyScript
• Interactive Software Documentation, with PyScript
• Build in-browser 3D experiences with WebGL and PyScript
• Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13
• Rust
• Ruff: An Extremely Fast Python Linter and Code Formatter, Written in Rust
• Building a Rusty path validation library for PyCA Cryptography
• Pydantic Power-up: Performance Tips for Lightning-Fast Python Applications
• How Python Harnesses Rust through PyO3
• Simon Willison LLMs keynote
• The Design of Everyday APIs
• If Statements Are a Code Smell (PyCon 2020)

Chit-chat

• How do you say Guido's name?
• Cafe Bustelo washed up in Florida
• Black and Bold coffee delivery
• Electrolyte-infused coffee

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Prepare for a post-apocalyptic rollercoaster adventure, filled with ghost peppers, into the magical realm of soapy forms!

See you at PyCon 2024!

We’ll be sipping coffee at PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh! See you there! 👋

Form References

• Django Forms are just an abstraction over HTML
• HTML Form element
• Django Form class
• Django Form widget
• Outputting forms as HTML
• Rendering Form errors
• Model Forms
• Model Form validation

Other Form Stuff

• How Shrek swamped a restaurant server - why we need server-side validation
• Longest place name in the world - Testing character limi... 😉

Third-party Libraries

• HTMX - AJAXify your HTML (for people who dislike JavaScript)
• django-crispy-forms - stylish Django forms
• django-crispy-bulma-forms - Bulma-ify Django forms
• django-widget-tweaks - template tags and filters for forms

Unfiltered Takes

• The Django Brew Pantry - Django Brew example code repo
• Cafe Bustelo - the best coffee for killing zombies
• Zombieland - maybe all those preservatives are good for something
• Hot Ones Challenge - are you up for the challenge? (Adam is not)
• Busch Gardens straight-drop roller coaster - gravity-defying rollercoaster (not for Sangeeta’s glasses)

Sound effects from quicksounds and pond5 🎵

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This podcast is chock full of goodness about DjangoCon 2023!

Conference talks:

• HTML-ivating your Django web app's experience with HTMX, AlpineJS, and streaming HTML by Chris May - build interactive (and speedy) websites with Django
• Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL by Noah Kantrowitz - "embrace the monolith" and use Django to quickly build side projects while reducing complexity
• Postgres Performance: From Slow to Pro by Elizabeth Christensen - deep dive into how to speed up your Postgres database
• Don't buy the "A.I" Hype by Tim Allen - staying pragmatic about AI and new technology amidst media hype
• Finding Purpose in Open Source Through Community Building by Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe - Abigail's stories and lessons throughout her open-source journey
• Navigating Django's Future: Djangonaut Space by Dawn Wages and Rachell Calhoun - the new innovative mentorship program aimed at growing Django core contributors

Other fun stuff:

• DjangoCon 2019 - Adam's first DjangoCon
• Choose Boring Technology - you only have a few innovation "tokens", be conscientious where you spend them on any project
• Django Stickers - see all the fun stickers Adam and Sangeeta handed out
• Fried Green Tomatoes - the lunch item that stole the show at DjangoCon US 2023!
• Bonavita Connoisseur Coffee Brewer - Adam's favorite coffee maker (yeah, he's a little obsessed)

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In this pilot, we introduce this brand new podcast and talk about our Django origin stories!

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