This week, I joined Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson on the Django Chat podcast for DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News. You can also watch it on DjangoTV via YouTube.

On this episode, we discussed DjangoCon Europe, which Carlton had attended. We caught up on what’s going on with Django News and the Django Software Foundation. We also spent a good chunk of time on AI workflows and tooling. And I got to have a little soapbox rant at the end, which is always fun for me.

Projects I Recommended

• Pydantic AI is the Django ORM for accessing LLM providers
• CodexBar - If you are on a Mac, CodexBar will let you easily track and see your token usage across 20+ providers
• Ghostty - After almost two decades of using iTerm2, I switched.
• cmux - Built on Ghostty but a nice UX to switch between Agent sessions
• MacWhisper - Still my favorite voice to text Mac app

Books I Recommended

At the end of the episode, I recommended these two books:

• The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever by Jessie Sima
• Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow (I recommended this one, but maybe not for the reasons you might think)

Conclusion

I’m always excited and honored to be invited on the show, and I always enjoy it. I hope it was a good listen, and I especially appreciated getting to step on the soapbox one more time at the end.