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Adrian Holovaty is one of the original creators of Django. We discuss Django design decisions with twenty years of hindsight, why modern JavaScript is so complicated, coding with LLMs, and more.
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William Vincent and Carlton Gibson · Tech & Science · English
A biweekly podcast on the Django Web Framework by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson.
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