The Stack
This website is built with the Django web framework and powered by my favourite CMS available - Wagtail. The reason I chose Django, is that I believe it's perfect for sites like this one.
User management, permission handling, admin interfaces, etc... are a problem of the past, and thanks to the powerful and very extensible DTL based templating engine - there is no need for pesky JavaScript frameworks! (As you can probably tell, I am more of a back-end kinda guy).
As for why I chose Wagtail - well, it's the only one I've actually used with Django, and there's not that much choice in this department - But I am not complaining ! While very minimal, Wagtail proves to be very powerful with the many custom extensions available online. Its simplicity is what makes it very easy to integrate into existing projects and start building sites upon.
The Purpose
I have many plans, but the main purpose of this site is to of course hold information important to employers, and promote myself. But as you can see it's also going to be a platform for me to post articles / dev-diaries on things that interest me.
I also plan to have a set of personal API endpoints for handling finances/schedules or whatnot.
Besides that.. who knows, I'll take this project wherever the wind blows it.
The Hell?
Of course the website is not finished yet you dum-dum, look at it! It's quite rough round the edges, it doesn't have all the features, there aren't any AJAX requests... so yeah it's not finished.
I will be carrying out further work as I go, but for now I want to have something out there - And my previous website was absolutely fugly and empty so I needed that down ASAP -.
And that'll be all for now,
peace.