Speaking

Sam talks to Alex Hatfield about his technology origin story, his hopes for the evolution of the community and his thoughts on the current state and future of AI.

A walk through how Django is governed, triaged and released, as a worked example for a wider question: what does good open source contribution look like, and what do we owe the people who show up at our own repos?

A whistle-stop refresher of CPython internals, from tokenizer to eval loop, then the bigger conversation: does understanding the machinery make you better at the job, or is the abstraction enough?

A Python user needs to build a web app. Django, Flask or FastAPI? A look at why the usual ways of choosing fall short, and how to cut through the noise.