Closing session just wrapped up at DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens 🇬🇷
Final thanks, hugs, goodbyes… and that feeling that it went by too fast.
See you somewhere down the road 🙂
Final and third day of DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens 🇬🇷
Starting with the keynote by @EvilDMP 🎤
He opened with the story of Socrates, condemned to death here in Athens 25 centuries ago, just a short walk from the venue… quite a way to begin a talk about knowledge and documentation.
Day 2 of DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens is done 🇬🇷
Talks, chats, drinks, gelato 🍦 and, more than anything, a lot of people I got to meet again today.
These days are intense, but in a good way 🙂
First talk after the coffee break on the last day of DjangoCon Europe 2026 🇬🇷
Now listening to @nanorepublica 🎤
Looking at Django’s APIs in a broader sense, especially settings.py and manage.py, and how things like runserver can be confusing when it comes to deployment… interesting angle on something we all use every day 🙂
Group photo moment at DjangoCon Europe 2026 📸
Took the chance to snap an unofficial selfie while we were all there… couldn’t wait for the official one 😄
Next talk at DjangoCon Europe 2026 🇬🇷
Now listening to Christophe Henry 🎤
Exploring the idea of using Django templates on the frontend, transpiling them to JS to keep a single source of truth while avoiding too many HTTP requests… interesting direction 👀
Lightning talks just wrapped up at DjangoCon Europe 2026 ⚡️
Always a fun mix of ideas, demos, and unexpected moments right before the closing… a perfect way to end the conference 🙂
Second talk of the morning at DjangoCon Europe 2026 🇬🇷
Now listening to Vjeran Grozdanic from Sentry🎤
Talking about encrypting data in Django without complex migrations, with a drop-in field that can handle both old plain text and new encrypted data on the fly… very curious about this approach 🙂
Last talk before lunch at DjangoCon Europe 2026 🇬🇷
Now listening to Charlie Denton and Sam Searles-Bryant 🎤
A look back at how we handled transactions before atomic, and how something we now take for granted actually changed the way we write Django apps… nice mix of history and “wait, do we really understand this?” 🙂
First talk after lunch on the last day of DjangoCon Europe 2026 🇬🇷
Now listening to Loes Crama from Cosine 🚀
Django being used to manage data for a space mission, tracking thousands of components across Europe… always fun to see where Django ends up 🙂