PROJECT
/2011/ARCHIVED/hblog-django
My django learning playground, born as a rewrite of hblog.
KEYWORDS:
+4
It started as a rewrite of hblog in #django and turned into how I learned the framework. I began with function-based views, moved to class-based views, and worked my way into the more advanced parts of #django from there. It ran on a cheap VPS and, for what it cost, held up well for a long time.
Single-page #js frameworks were not common yet, so I rendered a custom #bootstrap theme through #jinja templates. It looked clean, it had plenty of features, and it was one of my favorite blogs to maintain. It ended up the same way as hblog though: once I stopped writing, I let it slide into the archive.
Related Nodes
project
2008hblog
A custom PHP blog engine built from scratch during my early learning days.
+7
project
2026hblog-ng
A knowledge-graph blog that turns an Obsidian vault of Markdown into a static site, built with Next.js and LaTeX.
+7
blog
2026Still Human Here
Twenty years, many abandoned blogs, and why an AI-saturated internet finally gave me a reason to write.
+6