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DjangoCon US 2023 πŸ‚

2023 DjangoCon US πŸ‚ took place on October 16-20, 2023 in Durham Convention Center in Durham, NC. See the Schedule.

There have been 325 posts and 1652 favourites with the hashtags #djangocon or #djangoconus on Mastodon during the conference.

"And there's bad paleoart. And there's also bad art of this kind. You know, technically, imaginatively, scientifically, artistically, and even morally bad... it was an act of the imagination and it's not neutral and it's not passive... In 40 years time, people will be looking back or we'll be looking back and thinking how is it possible that we failed to notice what was right in front of us?" @EvilDMP πŸ‚

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"Your input is not just being able to directly say 'ok this project might be a problem.' It's when you get other people to the point where they can see the project may be a problem." --Charles

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"Sometimes because I've been around a little bit now, I can sort of see a pothole coming, you know, either a technical pothole or maybe a political one or maybe a legal one or a financial one, and say ok, there's a pothole coming up" --Charles

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Coming up in 5 minutes!

Opening remarks from Adrienne Franke followed by our keynote from Julia SolΓ³rzano: Django the Dinosaur: A Story About A Web Framework.

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"I don't know if it's as much a skill [switching from IC to manager] as it is like being genuinely interested in the people that work for you" --Elizabeth

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Visiting Durham's most culturally relevant site (to me, at least).

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"I pick on Frank as much as I can" @kjaymiller

"It's the gray beard, right?" --Frank

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I can't move.

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"When a user looks at your system, they see your product as a whole. You don't get a report that says 'Your Javascript is broken.'"

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"Hopefully gluten-free donuts for me!" @kjaymiller

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Next: There's More to Open Source than Code by RamΓ³n Huidoboro πŸ‚

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Up now: Lightning talks!

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"My manager told me less is more and I tend to always do more and more and more."

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Excellent use of Spanish as an example of how groups of people use the feminine article (las) in some groups (nurses, secretaries, cooks, etc) while others (doctors, construction workers, athletes, etc) use the masculine (los), leading to conditioning since birth by @nessita

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Modern testing goals:
- Focus on building fast feedback loops rather than certain types of tests
- Make test development as fast and painless as possible
- Choose test tooling that naturally complements dev workflows

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Next up: Drishti Jain presenting Django's Data Science Makeover

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"Please don't clap for me; it's fine." @kjaymiller πŸ‚

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As a new empty-nester: "You should have some sort of plan for 'what am I going to do with that time'" --Frank

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"You know me. I have done scary things in other languages with testing. pytest is by far my favorite test framework."

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Me, Sunday night: I've remembered everything. I've prepared everything. Nothing can bring me down for my first
Proof of a negative COVID test, with a steel chair:

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