I had a fun conversation on the Django Chat podcast with Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson. It was a great discussion.
Things we talked about:
- Walking
- Right and wrong ways to do things
- Geographic meetups during virtual times
- Open source attention
- Coverage.py
- The evolution of the Python standard library
- Python 3.10’s trace behavior
- Coverage as a measure of test quality
- UX of test information
- Developer gamification
- Upgrading Django with third-party packages
- Convincing people to test
- Using non-public interfaces
- Cog
- Side projects as outlets
- Rewriting my wacky personal site (this site)
- edX being acquired by 2U
- Open source from first principles
Comments
Nice talk! Never knew there’s a podcast dedicated to Python/Django.
Loved the part about class-based vs function-based views. I do believe it’s better to use a class-based view to have a framework-based CRUD system.
I’d prefer using function-based views when you’re working on something that’s more towards external usage, payment integrations, dealing with callbacks, etc.
Also, the part about teaching beginners - it makes so much sense, they don’t need to learn how things were done in 2006, it’s 2022 already and they can skip steps.
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