4 videos · 4 events · 2022–2025 · 2h 4m of video
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DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025
Using a grotesque parody of Jonathan Swift’s *A Modest Proposal*, Mario Munoz imagines selling unemployed junior developers as food for wealthy technologists, exposing the cruelty of treating people as disposable inputs to economic and technological growth. He argues that AI boosters and doomers alike fixate…
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DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024
Mario Munoz argues that “developer” is not a fixed identity defined by a job title, skill set, personality, or career path. Drawing on Lacan’s mirror stage and imagined personality profiles, he shows how the traits that help developers—such as ambition, empathy, confidence, or curiosity—can also…
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DjangoCon US 2023 · December 15, 2023
Hypermedia has returned to the center of web development through tools such as HTMX, which let HTML declare requests, targets, triggers, and partial page updates while leaving application state on the server. Mario Muñoz argues that this approach is usually simpler, more accessible, sustainable, and…
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DjangoCon US 2022 · November 23, 2022
Mario Muñoz explains that he chose Flask and then FastAPI instead of Django because metaphors such as “fast,” “modern,” and “flexible” made them feel more approachable. As a beginner, Django’s terminology, history, community, and descriptions such as “batteries included,” “opinionated,” and “monolithic” made it seem…