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Personal blog · spapas.github.io · on HN as spapas82programmingweb
/var/ is a personal blog at spapas.github.io about programming and web. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “My essential guidelines for better Django development”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Wagtail installation tutorial as a concrete example of how much setup the Wagtail CMS requires, compared with WordPress. Only one comment mentions it.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- My essential guidelines for better Django development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-11
- Multiple Erlang/Elixir Versions in Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-22
What Hacker News says?
OpenID connect is a rather simple protocol. I was able to understand most of it in about a day by reading the specs ( https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html ). For anybody that's interested and doesn't want to read these specs, I've written a comprehensive tutorial on how to implement a client for OpenID using simple HTTP requests ( https://spapas.github.io/2023/11/29/openid-connect-tutorial/ ). It's…
Comment linking /2023/11/29/openid-connect-tutorial/
on “OpenID Connect specifications published as ISO standards”Submitted My essential django package list as a story · 190 points
HN discussionI've written a react and a react-redux tutorial that, although are a little old, I believe that teach most important topics: https://spapas.github.io/2015/06/05/comprehensive-react-flux... and https://spapas.github.io/2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
Comment linking /2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
on “My struggle to learn React”Submitted Using both Python 2 and 3 in Windows as a story · 42 points
HN discussionFor anybody interested I've written a tutorial for youtube-dl: https://spapas.github.io/2018/03/06/easy-youtube-mp3-downloa...
Comment linking /2018/03/06/easy-youtube-mp3-downloading/
on “Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube”Submitted Understanding nested list comprehension syntax in Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor anybody that wants to start with pelican I had written a tutorial post about it at https://spapas.github.io/2013/10/07/pelican-static-windows/ . Also that blog is made with pelican and hosted with GitHub pages so you can see some of pelican's features. I'm using it for more than 7 years and am really happy with it (the fact that I am familiar with python and can debug some problems myself definitely helps)
Comment linking /2013/10/07/pelican-static-windows/
on “Pelican static site generator 4.5”Submitted Multiple Erlang/Elixir Versions in Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHello, I am aware of webpack but I haven't jumped in the webpack wagon - the tool I use from the node-js world for asset management is browserify which is much simpler (I've written a couple of articles about it: https://spapas.github.io/2015/05/27/using-browserify-watchif... and https://spapas.github.io/2015/11/16/using-browserify-es6/ ). However, as I mention in the post, I don't using node-js tools if you don't n…
Comment linking /2015/11/16/using-browserify-es6/
on “My essential django package list”Submitted A forward and reverse proxy primer for the layman as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am using Notepad++ (I'm a windows user) for more than 5 years for python/django development. Never regreted it - never found something better. I stuck to Notepad++ even when I was using a Mac for some months (through Wine) - I couldn't find something better or faster. Everything else is way too slow (Atom, VS Code, pycharm) or way too inefficient (Vim / Emacs - inefficient for me they may be great for you) to repl…
Comment linking /2016/06/07/django-werkzeug-debugger/
on “Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE”Submitted Easy immutable objects in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor anybody finding pivot complex (I know I did), I've written a long post about pivot and friends: https://spapas.github.io/2016/09/21/pandas-pivot-table-prime...
Comment linking /2016/09/21/pandas-pivot-table-primer/
on “Pivot – Rows to Columns”Submitted Easy downloading YouTube videos and mp3s using YouTube-dl and python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGreat work! If you wanna understand how Open ID Connect works using only HTTP requests/responses based on the specification ( https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html ) I've written an article here: https://spapas.github.io/2023/11/29/openid-connect-tutorial/
Comment linking /2023/11/29/openid-connect-tutorial/
on “How Open ID Connect Works”Submitted A forward and reverse proxy primer for the layman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'd written a blog post describing more or less this 5 years ago: https://spapas.github.io/2013/12/24/django-dynamic-forms/
Comment linking /2013/12/24/django-dynamic-forms/
on “Dynamic Django Models with Model Models”Submitted Multiple Erlang/Elixir Versions in Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA very major reason on why Wordpress is so widely used, is how easy it is to install on just about anything above a toaster. Meanwhile, this is how you install Wagtail: http://spapas.github.io/2014/02/13/wagtail-tutorial/
Comment linking /2014/02/13/wagtail-tutorial/
on “Wagtail”Submitted Saving in Dark Souls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou may also want to take a look at my own redux tutorial https://spapas.github.io/2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
Comment linking /2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
on “Learn how to use Redux step-by-step”Submitted Phoenix forms integration with select2 and Ajax as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://spapas.github.io/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Show HN: A World Cup 2018 Dashboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI haven't used puppeteer because I'd rather avoid the node.js ecosystem. I haven't used weasyprint because I can't install it on windows. The old way of doing it was using reportlab+xhtmltopdf (as described here: https://spapas.github.io/2015/11/27/pdf-in-django/ ) About wkhtmltopdf I am using it for some years in an internal (elixir) project and it works flawlessly, never had any complaint...
Comment linking /2015/11/27/pdf-in-django/
on “PDFs in Django like it’s 2022”Submitted PDFs in Django: The essential guide (2015 – upgraded for Django 2.x/Python 3.x) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you like take a look at my react-redux tutorial: https://spapas.github.io/2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
Comment linking /2016/03/02/react-redux-tutorial/
on “Collected some React tutorials for you (actually, not only React)”Submitted A comprehensive Django CBV guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor anybody starting with Django, I had written a bunch of guidelines some years ago https://spapas.github.io/2022/09/28/django-guidelines/ (after more than 10 years using exclusively Django for my work)
Comment linking /2022/09/28/django-guidelines/
on “Notes on Starting to Use Django”Submitted A pandas pivot_table primer as a story · 2 points
HN discussion