What I love about Django
The author reflects on why Django remains a favorite framework after years of building Buttondown, praising its invisible structure and the long-term leverage of middlewares, model inheritance, actions, and simple views. They also discuss what they deliberately leave out—signals, class-based views, apps, and forms—and explain their choice of Django for its boring reliability.
I do not look at Buttondown and see a Django app; I see a well-structured codebase with many things that have been solved by smarter people than myself.