Lunch Talks
Reviews of conference talks and videos worth watching as a software engineer.
Lunch Talk Series: What if you became an open source software contributor?
A review of Amanda Savluchinske's PyLadiesCon talk on how to start contributing to open source software.
July 13, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL
A review of Noah Kantrowitz's DjangoCon US talk on doing more things within Django, avoiding external services.
June 26, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Cutting latency in half: What actually worked—and what didn’t
A review of Timothy McCurrach's DjangoCon US talk on tools and systems to improve performance of your application.
May 29, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Async Django: The practical guide you've been awaiting for
A review of Carlton Gibson's DjangoCon Europe talk on Django's async landscape back in 2022/2023
May 28, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: An Opinionated Guide to Modern Django Forms
A review of Josh Thomas' DjangoCon US talk on how to use Django forms to build modern web apps.
May 05, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: What Would the Django of Data Pipelines Look Like
A review of Lisa Dusseault's DjangoCon US talk on creating the data pipeline framework, Phaser.
April 10, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: How to Enjoy Debugging in Production
A review of Karen Tracey's DjangoCon US talk on better preparing for your next product launch.
April 02, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Building maintainable Django projects: the difficult teenage years
A review of Alex Henman's DjangoCon US talk on real-world techniques to make maintaining Django applications easier.
March 25, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks
A review of Peter Baumgartner's DjangoCon US talk on revisiting topics from the book "High Performance Django".
March 10, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful... Django Unit Tests
A review of Colleen Dunlap's DjangoCon US talk on introducing unit testing and how to write tests with Django.
March 02, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Of Clouds and Crows
A review of Lynn Root's PyCon US keynote on the topic of playing more.
February 22, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Privilege Arbitrage
A review of Kojo Idrissa's PyDX talk on the topic of diversity and inclusion within technical communities.
February 11, 2026
Lunch Talk Series: Django needs you! (to do code review)
A review of Sarah Boyce's DjangoCon Europe 2025 keynote on the topic of code reviews for the Django framework.
February 01, 2026
Why generosity turns to rage, and what to do about it | Lunch Talk
A talk by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis and my review
March 29, 2024
