Overview
DailyExplainers is a blog and content platform built with Django and Tailwind CSS.
It covers the full publishing workflow — Markdown posts, tags and series, drafts, scheduled publishing, full-text search, tables of contents, and per-post cover and Open Graph images — with caching and performance work to keep pages fast.
What it is
DailyExplainers is a content platform for long-form explainers. The engineering focus is the publishing workflow behind the articles: making it easy to write, organize, schedule, and publish posts that are pleasant to read and structured for search.
At a glance
- Markdown-based posts
- Drafts & scheduled publishing
- Tags and series
- Full-text search
- Table of contents
- Cover & Open Graph images
- Caching & performance optimization
- Custom domain
Publishing workflow
- Markdown authoring. Posts are written in Markdown, keeping content portable and easy to edit.
- Drafts and scheduling. Posts move between draft and published states, and can be scheduled to publish later.
- Tags and series. Related explainers are grouped by tag and into series, so readers can follow a topic across posts.
- Cover and Open Graph images. Each post can carry its own cover image and social-sharing image.
Reader experience
- Full-text search across published posts.
- Table of contents for navigating long articles.
- A Tailwind CSS interface focused on readable typography.
SEO-oriented architecture
The platform is structured with search visibility in mind: per-post metadata and Open Graph images mean each article presents itself properly in search results and when shared.
Performance and operations
Pages are kept fast through caching and performance optimization, and the site runs on its own custom domain.
