Lightning Talks (Wednesday) with Andrew Mshar
summary
A tiny Django app that shuffles agenda items and “pulls them out of a hat” actually exists and runs in production; it uses vanilla CSS, HTMX and Hyperscript, stores items in SQLite (author chose simplicity over Postgres), has a Docker image that works, and was written in about three days. The concrete claim is measurable: meetings shorten and frustration falls — the tool saves hours over years and remains in use two years after deployment. Django app
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Lightning talks welcome
- 2:47Silly projects real problems
- 3:50Fixing broken releases
- 7:24AI mapping disaster response
- 10:38Documentation review workflows
- 13:09Thanking Python contributors
- 18:27Bringing DjangoCon US
- 23:40Back channel logout OIDC
- 28:15Military encryption SSO history
- 33:03Django Phone Verify OTPs
- 37:44Closing remarks Q&A
