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[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

SaaS Foundations with Django is already on https://t.co/2Di8UgOfpg. Get started now!

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

After swearing I’d never do it again, here we are with my next course at almost 12 hours.

SaaS Foundations with Django!

It will be on YouTube. It will cover:

- Django
- Sending Emails with Gmail (at least short term)
- Django AllAuth + GitHub Login
- Deploy to Railway
- Integrate Neon Postgres
- Django Groups and User Permissions
- Django + Stripe Integration
- Stripe reoccurring payments via Products/Prices API
- Django Management commands to sync Users subscription status with correct permissions
- Django management commands for pulling vendor css/js (tailwind/flowbite) for container-based builds plus
- Django with whitenoise
- Scheduled GitHub Actions Workflows to sync prod database with stripe status (e.g replacing a Celery beat server)
- Using Neon Branching for Postgres in GitHub Actions to leverage production data without touch production data
- Python Decouple for env vars
- and much more.

Once I drop the video it will be in this thread. In the meantime, here’s the code 👇

[Docker @Docker]

An agent is doing exactly what you asked. Then you start wondering what else it can access.

@JustinMitchel of @joincfe walks through Docker Sandboxes, covering disposable environments, Git workflows, and where sandboxes fit once agents start executing code.

Watch → https://t.co/gjVtHn2rj5

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

@clerk back up 🚀

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Our auth provider (@clerk) is having an outage. We'll be back as soon as we can.

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

@clerk Can it be done using a Cloudflare dns proxy on our end going forward?

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Learning to code helps you think in systems, Python is the easiest way to start this journey.

Our newest course is here: Python for the AI Era.

https://t.co/1oIapST4Hx

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Should be back now. Sorry about that

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Something happened with our database. We're investigating now.

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Something happened with our database. We're investigating now.

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

Learn how to use a basic CSV-based ORM in this one.

👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

What the heck is an ORM and why do we need it with Python? This is how with some code...

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

@JustinMitchel @ckeditor The goods!

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Just dropped a 6.5hr course on my YouTube channel to

Build Google docs from scratch using…

- Django
- Next.js
- Django Ninja
- Google Login
- CKEditor
- Email-based Django users by customizing the user model
- From scratch Google OAuth so you can use it with Django, DRF, or ninja
- wysiwyg document editing
- real-time collaboration through managed web sockets
- and much more

Video & code linked 👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

If you're first learning to code, download VSCode on your Mac. It's a great code editor that provides a lot of helpful functionality out of the box for all sorts of Open Source programming.

Turn AI features off. The only way you can learn to code is by actually doing it yourself. AI can come later.

It's easy to download at code(dot)visualstudio(dot)com or you can watch this video 👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Fortunately or unfortunately, if you are writing software on an Apple Mac, you'll need to download Xcode and install Command Line Tools.

App Store > Xcode > download

then

Open Xcode > Agree to download command line tools

or

Open the terminal and run:

`sudo xcode-select --install`

Here's how it's done 👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Run your code anywhere with Docker and containers. This short will show you how on your Mac.

Docker allows you to run all kinds of software without installing anything other than Docker. It's magical and used all across web development.

Watch how to install it now (it's easy)

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Since I just bought a new @Apple Mac mini... I need to get it setup for coding software.

In the thread below, I will post the videos that are:

- Beginner friendly
- Short (<5 minutes)
- Mini tutorials
- Eventually advanced setups
- Install & setup free and open source software
- Update the thread over time (bookmark it now!)
- Tips & tricks I've learned over the past 10+ years building software

Let's start with one of the most fundamental of apps on MacOS 👇🧵

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

🚀 Free course drop

Build an AI Generator of Yourself!

Something like MidJourney but with your own images and your own face. We will fine-tune the amazing open-source model called Flux so you can write prompts like:

"An image of me riding a unicorn"
"An image of me as the lord of Winterfell"
"An image of me as a 1900s time travel inventor"

And much more.

The basic process is easy enough:

- Find 10-20 images (that's it) with your face
- Zip those images
- Train a new model on Replicate (fine-tuning)
- Call the Replicate API with your text prompts

But how do we use this in our own software projects?

While you *could* call the replicate API directly, we build a FastAPI app so we can proxy Replicate. Doing so gives us:

- control over prompts
- shareable and re-usable
- integrate with your apps
- ability to a/b test new models with runtime variable changes
- future proofing on new image-generative models
- future proofing on new model hosting services
- rate limiting with Upstash Redis to prevent our bills from ballooning with generative ai
- fork + go for other models we want to use
- safety controls over image responses (e.g. prevent nsfw from reaching end users)
- And much more more

This course will give you the skills necessary to own the pipeline to generate your AI images. Let's do this!

Thanks to @upstash for sponsoring this series!

Video and code in 🧵👇

[TimescaleDB (by Tiger Data) @TimescaleDB]

📊 Build a Stock Trading Bot with Django and Time-Series Data

Learn how to use Django with @TimescaleDB to handle large-scale, rapidly changing data like stock market trends.

In this course by @JustinMitchel, you’ll:
✅ Build custom Python API clients for https://t.co/M9FqigeOn3 and Alpha Vantage.
✅ Automate data extraction with Celery for background processing.
✅ Perform advanced database queries in Django for stock analysis.
✅ Generate buy/sell/hold recommendations using logic or AI.
This isn’t just about stocks — it’s about unlocking time-series data for any app you build.

🎥 Check out the demo and start learning today:
https://t.co/oCNTNMeCOT

#Django #TimescaleDB #Python #StockTrading #TimeSeriesData

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

To the moon!

Watch on YouTube or on https://t.co/SiCLSw8cjJ

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

🚀 New free course drop: Build a Stock Trading Bot with Python

The goal is to learn how to ingest large amounts of data quickly using Django and Postgres. To do this, we create custom Python api clients to get near real time data thanks to both Polygon and Alpha Vantage.

Storing this data requires a special kind of Postgres -- time series optimized. We use @TimescaleDB for this exact reason (as well as their django-timescaledb package).

Once we have a lot of data, we use built-in Django tools to analyze it and then provide automated recommendations via simple logic and OpenAI's GPT-4.

To make all this work, I cover a lot of different topics including:

✅ Django for Time Series Data
✅ TimescaleDB Integration with Django via Docker Compose
✅ Django & Timescale Cloud Integration
✅ Connect to https://t.co/A2y0KBfLiD and Alpha Vantage APIs
✅ Use Jupyter to rapidly prototype Python and Django Code
✅ Transform timestamps and date strings into timezone aware data
✅ Integrate Django & Jupyter
✅ Process near real-time market data
✅ Store time series data at rapid speed with TimescaleDB
✅ Calculate key technical indicators via Django ORM and Database Queries
✅ Build and schedule automated async functions with Celery worker and beat server processes
✅ Create trading signals and recommendations
✅ Leverage AI/LLMs for market analysis
✅ And much more

⭐️ Thanks to Timescale for sponsoring this course! Please sign up with my link so they know I sent you: https://t.co/eZaaUSz267

Video and code in 🧵👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Wow, django-cotton is incredible.

Define, use with `&lt;c-button&gt;` (or whatever the template name is) and see the results.

I've been wanting a shadcn-like template for Django. I think django-cotton is the key to making that happen.

Just needs to learn a few more bits about it.

[Coding for Entrepreneurs @joincfe]

We are on the cusp of a massive amount of software being created thanks to tools like @cursor_ai .

If you haven't used it yet, this course is for you. If you're confused on how to use it, this course is for you.

Come learn how to build a full stack web app with just English.

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

New free course drop on YouTube!

Learn how to build and modern full stack web apps with English and @cursor_ai

🤯I can't believe how good Cursor is to build apps.

While tools like ChatGPT and Claude have websites that make it easy to copy and paste code generated, Cursor brings these tools right next to your code for the most amazing auto-complete tool you've ever used -- far better than anything on the market yet. The best part? A lot of it costs $0 to get started for a _long time_. This entire course cost $0 in AI costs.

What we build in this course used to cost thousands (if not tens of thousands) of dollars to build over the course of a month or two. You'll do it for free and in a little over 5 hours.

Cursor is what you thought GitHub Copilot was going to be. Heck, even if they do the same thing by the time you watch this video, you can thank Cursor for pushing the envelop and helping beginners and professional developers a like.

Let's do this!

Topics:
✅ Do Full Stack Web Development in pure English
✅ Leverage Anthropic's https://t.co/jPWcoSuhRG right on your machine without copying and pasting
✅ Diagnose issues with ease
✅ Learn various commands to speed up how you use Cursor AI
✅ Create rules for Cursor to follow to ensure consistent workflows
✅ Skip local setup and develop directly on cheap servers
✅ Build your first static website in about 10 minutes
✅ Integrate Git and GitHub to easily backup your code and undo bad AI generations
✅ Build a Python & Django Web App without writing a single line of code
✅ Leverage Neon Postgres to persist database data across VMs
✅ Deploy a production-ready web server to access your in-development web app from anywhere in the world
✅ And much more!

Thanks to @neondatabase for partnering with me on this one.

Video + Code are 🔗in 🧵👇

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

Introducing my "Cloudflare for Devs" playlist on YouTube.

The goal here is to use some of Cloudflare's services to speed up and improve your apps.

I now do not have to manage HTTPs certificates in my production deployments. I also have nearly unlimited email addresses for each custom domain I own -- (no more paying per @ mydomain . com email addresses)

The playlist currently covers:
- Speed up your Django images with Cloudflare:
- Send and receive custom domain emails for free (assuming you own the domain already)
- Django Static Files hosting on Cloudflare
- Using HTTPs in Dev and Prod (Tunnels + Proxies)

Thanks to @Cloudflare and @CloudflareDev for partnering with me on this one!

Each video is linked 👇