Web and app developer. Coffee, beer, and running, in any order.
I did a little Django proof-of-concept on the fat posts with just Note and Article post types. I wanted to be sure I could have type-specific admin pages before doing the big lift on my site architecture. The key seems to be using proxy models.
On any web project, I think it’s worth having a checklist of The Invisibles—things that aren’t displayed directly in the browser, but that can make a big difference to the user experience.
Some examples:
Turns out my recent upgrade to Django 5.2 was not, in fact, “without issue.” I had to patch a problem saving images with stored dimensions with django-resized.
I have still been thinking about this “fat posts” architectural change and have audited the fields across all the post types on my website.
I upgraded the site from Django 4.2 to 5.2 and only had to deal with two deprecation warnings along the way.