💡Photon Designer + Postgres task queue 🐘 + Django comment threads 🧵

Joke: Why was the Django form addicted to social media?

(Answer at the end 🙂)

Latest Django content to boost you

Add comment threads to Django in 9 mins 🧵

This shows a simple way to add user comments with Django. You can click on the Circumeo link in the guide to run a full demo of the final app.

Circumeo is a cool tool for rapidly deploying Django apps - built by a friend, Zach 🇺🇸

Use Postgres as a simple task queue for Django 🐘 (Released today 🎉)

Using Postgres as a task queue for Django has big advantages over the traditional approach (e.g., Celery and Redis).

Another friend (Josh 🇬🇧) runs Nomio, a profitable Django + HTMX startup with hundreds of critical daily tasks. They are moving to use Postgres as a task queue because it's simpler and more reliable.

Next up

My next planned content pieces for you are:

• How to build a simple connect 4 game with HTMX 🟡🔴

• How to stream LLM completions to the browser using Django (OpenAI and Anthropic)

• The simplest way to add subscription payments with Stripe to Django 💸📥

Photon Designer site analytics and content marketing

Here’s a private look at my recent analytics for the Photon Designer site and some of my questions.

Analytics questions - Watch Video

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Joke: Why was the Django form addicted to social media?

Because it loved being validated 🎉