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# Talking about Django’s history and future on Django Chat

**[Simon Willison](https://daily.dev/sources/simonwillison)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Jacob Kaplan-Moss, co-creator of Django, discusses the history of Django and his return to the Django Software Foundation board in an interview with the Django Chat podcast. Recent articles include topics such as building and testing C extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT, Whisper and Claude for ad-hoc sidequests, and more.

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