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Carlton Gibson
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Carlton Gibson's personal blog at noumenal.es covers programming and web. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carlton Gibson's blog for posts on Django tooling, such as continuous documentation with Sphinx, and on structuring Django projects as modular monoliths.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Veteran software engineer, working mainly on and with Django. Writing, open source packages, and The Stack Report newsletter.
What Hacker News says?
If using Django there are tools like django-docs ( https://django-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) and the recently released django-sphinx-view ( https://noumenal.es/django-sphinx-view/ ).
Comment linking /django-sphinx-view/
on “The case for continuous documentation”Submitted More Batteries Please as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDjango apps can be the modular part of a modular monolith, but it requires some discipline. Django apps do not have strong boundaries within a Django project. Often there will be foreign keys crossing app boundaries which makes one wonder why there are multiple apps at all. In fact some people opt for putting everything into a single app [0]. Others opt for no app [1]. Django apps are good for installing Django pack…
Comment linking /notes/django/single-folder-layout/
on “Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea”Submitted Python as a Full-Spectrum Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussion