I just published a new video showing how to add different agent workflows to your web apps with Pydantic AI. Really awesome framework! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33I...

When someone has a 🤯 moment with AI they often want to share it, but I have basically zero interest in reading other people's AI chats. This phenomenon at scale seems like it could become another way our human experiences get more and more isolated from each other.

The @djangonaut.space team are looking for mentors for their next session, in October - November ⭐️ www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... An amazing opportunity to improve your skills and help grow the #Django community!

For additional in-depth discussion about vibe coding, check out this great YT video by @coryzue.com about using vibe coding with his SAAS Pegasus framework (fantastic Django frame IMO). Very detailed walkthrough of how it worked and how it didn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELii...

I explained to my kids that—unlike most people—I don't get paid on a schedule, but whenever someone decides to buy something from me. Now every time I drop them off at school my 4yo says "bye dad, hope you get some money today!" I wonder what the other parents make of this.

Just sped up lifeweeks.app page loads by more than 10x just by enabling compression on the responses. Whenever I look into performance, I never know if it's going to be a quick one-line change for huge gains, or days of my life lost to rabbit holes and dead ends.

"Yes, it seems like the next step in our progression as a species. Yes, it will lead to progress in science, medicine and technology. And yet, I'm still hoping it doesn’t happen. I think, because I can't figure out my own worth in a world with superintelligence." www.coryzue.com/writing/prep...

Lazyweb: If you were spinning up a new docs site today what would you use? Main requirements are that it looks good, is fast, and you can author docs in markdown. Bonus points if it can generate markdown copies of your docs for LLMs.

The latest release of bluesky-comments now optionally links to deer.social profiles (in addition to bsky.app). Thanks @dame.is for the contribution!

When you're supposed to be doing marketing but would rather be coding.

I'm using a SaaS boilerplate from @coryzue.com , and needed tech support a few times. Almost every time, I got a reply right away, and the fix was done in just a day or two.What a speed! I appreciate good customer support way more now that I’m the one providing it.

Someone emailed me for support on a Chrome Extension I made and we've had a long back and forth troubleshooting. We haven't figured out of the issue, but we've talked enough that she's now telling me about her life and sending me pictures of her home town. Delightfully random internet encounter!

I've officially ditched Webpack and moved to Vite for my Django projects. Here's a short video explaining why, and how you can set it up yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVwR...

SaaS Pegasus spotted in Times Square!

I challenged myself to vibe code a new app with Django and React. And I learned a lot! These tools are getting really good and learning how to use them well feels like the next phase of software development. More thoughts and takeaways in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELii...

The six stages of vibe-coding: 1. Nice it worked! 2. Huh that part is kinda weird. 3. Wait what is this even doing? 4. Oh I see. Ha. 5. <deletes half the code> 6. Nice, still worked!

This xkcd was published 18 years ago, mostly irrelevant for like a decade as computers got faster, and is now very much back.

I woke up in the middle of the night and texted myself "Maybe human brains are just llms and sleep is when we do training and awake is when we do inference?" I think I need to touch more grass.

I feel like the argument of kids vs no kids was more even before the age of AI, because the "no kids" camp could derive meaning from a career. But if the robots are soon smarter than all of us and doing all the work? Then kids start to feel like the only source of meaning.

The latest code change I made took 15 mins to vibe code and then 3 hours to clean up so I understood how it worked and knew I could maintain it moving forwards. I believe that effort was worth it, but man, it would be so freeing to work on throwaway projects all the time.

🚀 Pegasus 2025.4.1 is out! This is another jam-packed release with major upgrades to teams, the react front end, and the stripe webhook setup. The release notes are 1500 words long and have two video walkthroughs. 😶 docs.saaspegasus.com/release-note...

One reason JS frameworks are so popular is that they delay the pain and complexity of web apps past the "gotcha" moment of success. Django, Rails et. al. are great in steady state, but hit you with the complexity out of the gate, which discourages beginners.

So I spent the last day using MCP and it kind of blew my mind. Five lines of JSON can now replace multi-million dollar SaaS companies. Here's my writeup, including how you can start using it in minutes. www.coryzue.com/writing/holy...

Just published a short video about how I built the anonymous onboarding flow for Life in Weeks. Letting people play with your app before sign up is one of the best way to get more conversions - especially in B2C. And it's not hard to build (in Django)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFnE...

I added a few example timelines to lifeweeks.app and they make for some interesting comparisons! For instance, Obama was a surprisingly late bloomer, giving his DNC speech at 42 and only becoming senator at 43. At 42, Elon had already exited PayPal and had been running Tesla and SpaceX for years.

How it can feel building a product in the era of vibes.

I was frustrated how hard it is to understand Stripe fees, refunds, etc. so I vibe-coded a little tool to show me the information I wanted for my account data. It runs in the browser and takes 2 mins to use on your own data. You can try it here: www.saaspegasus.com/stripe-fees/

Each month, we're showcasing a DSF member to help you get to know the community better. This month, we're featuring Cory Zue ( @coryzue.com ), member of the Social Media Working Group! 💚 👉www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... #DSFMemberOfTheMonth #DSF #django

In the two weeks since launch, lifeweeks.app has had an average of 45 signups per day with essentially zero promotion. Pretty nice having a product with a built-in viral sharing loop!

You can now use lifeweeks.app in French, Spanish, and Chinese. Translations are AI-generated so they're probably not great, but hopefully good enough! Also getting some help from native-speaking volunteers to make it better!

🚀 bluesky-comments 0.10 is out! This release adds major accessibility improvements for navigating the comment section, courtesy of @jasonbyday.bsky.social (who is really living up to his bio).

When use cursor compose or claude code, I spend way less time coding and more time doing code review. Which... kind of sucks? More efficient but also less fun. Kinda reminds me of my time as a team lead.

Woke up today to a ton of lifeweeks.app sign ups. Checked Hacker News and my launch post that totally flopped is now on the front page with an edited timestamp. Bless the HN mod that gave it a second chance!

🚀 New Pegasus release is out today! 🧹Cleans up the CSS setup ⚙️ More configurable Git repo setup 🐎 Introduces better caching defaults 🐞 Squashes loads of bugs ✍️ New docs Big thanks to the many community members who contributed suggestions and fixes to this update.

Just added an option to embed your timeline on any site. You can also change the background color to match the theme. Here's how it looks on my own website. Link to source/demo: www.coryzue.com/life/

Announcing lifeweeks.app! Use it to make a timeline of your life, where each square is a week. You can color code different life chapters, highlight key events on the timeline and share it with the world. I hope someone out there gets a fraction of the joy using it as I've gotten building it.

I just spent two hours writing an onboarding email sequence and am infinitely more tired than I am after 10 hours of coding.

So the bluesky-comments feature that automatically finds which post to use broke suddenly, I think because of a backend API change that makes the searchPosts API require auth. @emilyliu.me does that sound like a change that might have happened recently? And any suggestions how to work around it?

As best I can tell, Kamal's proxy breaks Django's APPEND_SLASH setting, which is super annoying! I just spent 2 hours figuring this out and put together a 10-line workaround to fix it. www.coryzue.com/writing/kama...

I made a thing! You can read more about it here. Huge shout out to @ginatrapani.org for the inspiration. www.coryzue.com/writing/life...

I bought another domain today. Rather than do what I normally do and sit on it for a few years, I'm gonna drop everything I'm doing and try to ship an app in a day or two. Inspiration is perishable. 💪

One of my favorite little rituals at the end of a long debugging session with cursor/claude. I find it so endearing how it wants to mirror my excitement but also really wants to stay in character as a coding assistant.

I’ve been quietly obsessing over the AI's impact on the future of coding and boilerplates for a long time. I thought it would be good to finally try to answer the question that’s been on my mind this whole time: Am I fucked? My initial thoughts here: www.coryzue.com/writing/ai-a...

Living in side project purgatory: 1. Come up with a name 2. Buy a domain 3. Wait a year 4. Realize the name sucks 5. Go to step 1

This week marks 7 years since I quit my job as a developer at Google to form my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that's going and what my life is like as a bootstrapped founder. This year, I sold my company and became a father. mtlynch.io/solo-develop...

I was looking for a small project to kill a few hours, and decided to try training my own AI image models (so I could make silly pictures of myself and my kids). It turned out to be super easy! Here's what I learned, and how you can do it too: www.coryzue.com/writing/make...

Wild that my posts with links perform, on average, better than the ones without. Such a refreshing philosophical difference from the other site.

I've always been on the fence about using Docker but I'm currently upgrading all my projects to Python 3.12 and boy does it shine for this particular task.

Wow. If you consider yourself an indie hacker or #buildinpublic, read this. To me, it feels like an incredibly accurate summary of all books I read and talks I watched around this topic over the past 12 months on how to become a solo entrepreneur.

I recently gave the closing keynote at PyCon South Africa. In it, I covered everything I've learned going from a developer to a solopreneur, with two goals: 1. Convince people it's a viable career path. 2. Help them do it. Watch the talk or read a transcript here: www.coryzue.com/writing/solo...