Simon Willison’s Weblog

Talk Python: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators. I recorded this podcast episode recently to celebrate Django's 20th birthday with Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplet, and Thibaud Colas.

We didn’t know that it was a web framework. We thought it was a tool for building local newspaper websites. [...]

Django’s original tagline was ‘Web development on journalism deadlines’. That’s always been my favorite description of the project.