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Simple is Better Than Complex
Personal blog · simpleisbetterthancomplex.com · on HN as vitorfsprogrammingweb
Simple is Better Than Complex is a personal blog at simpleisbetterthancomplex.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “A Minimal Django Application”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
This is a blog about Python, Django and Web Development. New posts every week.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-23
- A Minimal Django Application2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-01
- A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-25
- Estimating the Effort of Development of a Django Application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-03
What Hacker News says?
You can also check out William Vincent's books [0]. They're easy to read and follow. A nice blog to also include in your django learning resources bookmarks is Simple is Better than Complex [1]. [0] http://wsvincent.com/books/ [1] https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/
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on “Django 3.2”Submitted A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI would just add that if you’re new to Django read https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com - there are ton of detailed explanations that go deep in how Django can be extended. It’s definitely not the run of the mill tutorial blog that is only surface level.
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on “Django 2.2”Submitted A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django – Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI started my blog about python/django ( https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com ) using Jekyll and hosting on Github Pages and it was pretty good to get started because back then I wasn't sure if I would keep it up or not. After a year or so I migrated to a 5 USD droplet on Digital Ocean (back then GH Pages didn't offer https for custom domains) and integrated with Github webhooks to automate the deployment when pushi…
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on “Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time”Submitted Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah I've played around with this approach in the past while prototyping service boilerplates, I think it's viable. I never got it polished enough to publish as a startproject --template and ultimately went with Flask for microservices, so I didn't finish the prototype. I found this article useful while I was experimenting: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/article/2017/08/07/a-m... There are a few different pla…
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on “Things I do every time I start a Django project”Submitted How to structure a Django project for production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReally nice tutorial is being made here: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/series/beginners-guide... Author uses recent version of Python and Django and is building with You something useful.
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on “Django 2.0 alpha”Submitted Generic Relations in Django as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Doesn't manage.py have expectations of where things are? Yes, but this is all configurable/remappable; FTA: > One last note to add is that this project structure results in fewer INSTALLED_APPS entries. The data/ directory, containing the models, and the interfaces directories, containing templates, static files, management commands, etc., all need to be included as entries. Related; here's an example of an extrem…
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on “How to Structure Django Projects”Submitted How to Add Social Login to Django as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontry searching for djangogirls and hellowebapp tutorial on google that helped me learn django basic concept in a relative short frame of time two months to be exact, then check out https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com blog posts on various python frameworks implementation and browse through github for various Django projects source code particularly drskepy django hackathon boiler plate. And if you still have proble…
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on “Ask HN: Advice for someone struggling to learn Django”Submitted Estimating the Effort of Development of a Django Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEverything from https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com I love his simple and elegant tutorials on very tactical topics.
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on “Ask HN: Free Resources for Learning Python and Django?”Submitted A Minimal Django Application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSimple is better than complex explains a lot of Django stuff even for beginners https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/
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on “Best Django Blogs and Talks”Submitted Django migrations – quick solutions based on scenario as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Crop Images in a Django Application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Estimating the Effort of Development of a Django Application as a story · 1 points
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