No bullshit help for
perfectionists with deadlines

Deliver business value quickly without sacrificing your sanity by sticking to boring technologies and skipping the fads.


⚡ Optimize for developer speed and maintainability

  • Skip the tangled web of microservices and use Django apps to stay in a delightful monolith
  • Stick to tried-and-true technology like PostgreSQL and Redis
  • Use server-side templates and the least amount of JavaScript possible while still providing a great user experience
  • Offload slow processing to a background queue like django-q2 to keep rendering time fast


Articles

✨ Essential Django packages ❤️
✨ Python Package Manager Comparison 📦
✨ Marketing for Developers
✨ Serve multiple Django sites from one cloud server
✨ Django inclusion tags can modify page context 🤯
✨ Optimize the Django ORM 🚀
✨ Searching within an area with GeoDjango and PostGIS 🌎

Tips

✨ Django Reversion + Wagtail = magic 🧙
✨ Prettier URLs with automatic slug generation 🐌
✨ Easily update URL querystrings in a template
✨ Unique, but obfuscated URLs in Django

Hi, I'm Adam 👋

I've been a backend programmer for ~20 years in a variety of different languages before I discovered Python 10 years ago and never looked back. alldjango includes all the hard-won experience I've gained over the years building production-scale Django websites.

Feel free to reach out to me on Mastodon or make a GitHub Issue with questions, comments, or bitter invectives.

All code is licensed as MIT.

Some of my side projects

Some of my OSS libraries

  • Unicorn: A full-stack component library for Django 🦄
  • coltrane: A simple content site framework that harnesses the power of Django without the hassle 🎵
  • django-fbv: Utilities to make Django function-based views cleaner, more efficient, and better tasting
  • minestrone: An opinionated Python library that lets you search, modify, and parse messy HTML with ease 🥫
  • Follow me at github.com/adamghill for more

Inspiration

This project is extremely indebted to the ethos (and design!) of boringrails.com by Matt Swanson. Check it out if you are more into 💎 than 🐍.

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