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Paolo Melchiorre
Personal blog · paulox.net · on HN as pauloxnetprogrammingweb
Paolo Melchiorre's personal blog at paulox.net covers programming and web. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a list of community resources on the Django 5.0 release thread. The linked post covers database generated columns in Django with SQLite. The comment is a bare link list with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Independent Python and Django consultant, Open Source contributor, and Free Software advocate.
Most-linked posts?
- Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- Database generated columns⁽²⁾: Django and PostgreSQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-24
- FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-12
What Hacker News says?
I updated markers as you suggested, thanks again http://www.paulox.net/2017/12/22/full-text-search-in-django-...
Comment linking /2017/12/22/full-text-search-in-django-with-postgresql/
on “Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL”Submitted Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL as a story · 180 points
HN discussionBTW I migrated the djangoproject.com from ES to PG FTS and it works great https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/commit/1be9a483f... I'll write another article about it and, if they vote it, I'll have a talk about it in the next PyCon Nove conference http://www.paulox.net/talks/#pycon-nove
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on “Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL”Submitted Django 3.2 – News on compressed fixtures and fixtures compression as a story · 86 points
HN discussionYes, I used pelican with Flex theme for my blog. http://www.paulox.net/about/#blog The Flex theme is not so old, but can be better, but I'm going to update it based on many report I received here. BTW pelican site is quite fast https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
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on “Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL”Submitted Django: One ORM to rule all databases as a story · 65 points
HN discussionRelease notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/5.0/ Related Community Resources * New goodies in Django 5.0 [blog]: https://fly.io/django-beats/new-goodies-in-django-50/ * What's new in Django 5.0 [video]: https://youtu.be/lPl5Q5gv9G8?feature=shared * Database generated columns⁽¹⁾: Django & SQLite [blog]: https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/07/database-generated-columns... * Database generated columns⁽²⁾:…
Comment linking /2023/11/24/database-generated-columns-part-2-django-and-postgresql/
on “Django 5.0 Is Released”Submitted FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI've added four new ideas to my list of possible improvements for Django and its community. I'd like to know what you think. https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/
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on “My Django Roadmap Ideas”Submitted Maps with Django⁽³⁾: GeoDjango, Pillow and GPS as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use UUIDv7 in Python, Django and PostgreSQL as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps with Django (Part 2): GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted My DjangoCon US 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paolo Melchiorre – So long, and thanks for all the tabs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps with Django (part 2): GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet – pauloxnet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speaking Online at EuroPython 2020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading PostgreSQL from version 11 to 12 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Updating a Django queryset with annotation and subquery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Install PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 25.10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Django on the Med 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database generated columns⁽¹⁾: Django and SQLite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django 5 by Example Preface as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pybites Podcast #155 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Django Roadmap Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Django active developers Sprints proposal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resize a Video with FFmpeg for Mastodon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The PyCon Italia 2022 multiplicity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pauloxnet – The Django speaking tour 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps with Django (Part 2): GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet as a story · 2 points
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