Wilhelm Klopp
Wil is the founder of Simple Poll, one of the most popular apps for Slack, which he develops with his small remote team. Wil loves Django, so naturally Simple Poll was created as a Django app 6 years ago.
Over the past two years, he has been exploring how to improve his own Django development workflow with a side project called Kolo. Kolo is a Django middleware and VSCode extension that shows you everything your Django app is doing as it’s running, making it much faster to ramp up on unfamiliar code and understand whats happening.
Wil lives in London with his partner Emily and puppy Ada.
Sessions
Reading and understanding existing code is a big part of work as software developers. We're constantly exploring code that we did not write and are not familiar with. Yet the tools we have for this frequent task leave a lot to be desired. In this talk we explore how we can use runtime inspection and Kolo to observe what our Django app is doing while running and how that can help us rapidly build a strong mental model that we can then draw on when writing new code.