mattlayman.com is a blog by Matt Layman, a software engineer who focuses on building complex web applications, primarily using Django. He shares his expertise through regular live streams on YouTube, where he teaches others how to build advanced SaaS projects. Matt is also deeply involved in the tech community in Frederick, Maryland, where he founded Python Frederick and has helped organize local tech events. Currently, Matt is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Included Health, working to enhance the patient experience through technology. His blog offers insights into web development, community involvement, and his career journey.
376 Articles from this blog
A technical guide on using Django's UpdateView to quickly create an edit form for a CourseTask model in a SaaS application.
A guide to understanding and building URLs in Django, covering URLconfs, path functions, and routing.
An introduction to the Django Riffs podcast, a beginner-friendly educational series for learning web development with the Django framework.
A developer episode on styling a Django template's tabular view using Tailwind CSS, including column highlighting and data structure explanation.
The author adds Tailwind CSS to style a Django SaaS project, fixes a logout issue, and explains utility-first CSS.
Explains how Django processes web requests using URL configurations (URLconf) to route URLs to the appropriate Python views.
A technical guide on implementing email-based user accounts in Django using the django-allauth package, including configuration and testing.
An overview of using Python with serverless services on AWS and GCP, based on a talk from the Python Frederick event.
A beginner-friendly introduction to Django, a Python web framework, explaining its core concepts and how it powers web applications.
A technical guide on creating a custom Django User model and integrating django-allauth for email-based authentication.
Setting up django-environ for environment-based settings and django-debug-toolbar for debugging in a Django SaaS project.
An analysis of why the SaaS 'College Conductor' failed after three years, detailing the technical and business lessons learned.
The author starts a new Django project from scratch, sets up a development environment with pip-tools, and deploys it to Heroku.
A talk on using Python to efficiently process and analyze large datasets from mass spectrometry, presented at a Python Frederick event.
A developer analyzes the failure of his SaaS project, College Conductor, sharing lessons on technology choices and focus.
An overview of the Godot game engine, comparing it to other options and showcasing its features for 2D/3D game development.
A developer discusses and compares different Django configuration tools, then integrates the Goodconf package into their SaaS project.
A technical guide on deploying WhiteNoise for static files in a Django SaaS app, covering CI/CD and Nginx configuration changes.
Learn how to automatically schedule and publish articles to the DEV community platform using GitHub Actions and a custom Python script.
A technical guide on integrating WhiteNoise into a Django app to manage static assets, replacing Nginx.
