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Show HN: Dj-doom-panel – Play Doom inside Django Admin

yassi_dev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:32:47 +0000

I built dj-doom-panel, a Django Control Room plugin that lets you play DOOM directly inside the Django admin.

Its mostly a fun project, but it also shows that you can use the DCR framework for more than tooling.

Enjoy.

Official Site:

https://djangocontrolroom.com/panels/dj-doom-panel

Source:

https://github.com/yassi/dj-doom-panel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646677

Points: 2

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New comment by yassi_dev in "πFS"

yassi_dev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:22:51 +0000

I built something with a similar spirit for Pi day: https://pi.yassi.dev/

DCR Core Framework: A Core Library for Building Django Admin Tools

yassi_dev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:26:24 +0000

Article URL: https://yassi.dev/projects/dj-control-room-base/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475990

Points: 2

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New comment by yassi_dev in "Not All Software Systems Are Agent Friendly"

yassi_dev — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:44:30 +0000

Thanks. It’s a Hugo theme I published here: https://github.com/yassi/hugo-theme-yassi

Not All Software Systems Are Agent Friendly

yassi_dev — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:51:32 +0000

Article URL: https://yassi.dev/posts/not_all_software_systems_are_agent_friendly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206242

Points: 3

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New comment by yassi_dev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

yassi_dev — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:37:50 +0000

I am working on a framework that lets you easily create tools inside the Django Admin - https://djangocontrolroom.com

I've published several panels under this banner already (tools for redis, caches, celery, etc.); I am currently working on a base library layer for tools to inherit from and to make it easier to create new tools.

Essentially, the point of all of this is to make it so that you don't need so many external services; Instead, DCR provides self hosted alternatives. This in turn makes it a lot easier to build and productionalize something using Django.

Reception has been decent so far and I estimate several thousand current adopters (Its hard to estimate based on download numbers alone.) For May I will finalize a common design language, further formalize the plugin system and how it works, and likely release a new panel.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Pi Patterns: generate Images from slices of π"

yassi_dev — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:05:06 +0000

Some of my favorites

The flames of hell: https://pi.yassi.dev/generator?start=747179&len=4096&mode=wa...

Looney Tunes Rings: https://pi.yassi.dev/generator?start=972784&len=16384&mode=r...

Dreamcast Logo: https://pi.yassi.dev/generator?start=809214&len=65536&mode=s...

Show HN: Pi Patterns: generate Images from slices of π

yassi_dev — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:10:44 +0000

Happy π Day!

I built a small experiment that generates images from slices of the digits of π.

Choose a starting digit, sequence size, renderer and make some art.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376335

Points: 1

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New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:49:55 +0000

If you work with Django long enough, and at significant scale, you live long enough to b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶i̶l̶l̶a̶i̶n̶ make hacky extensions to the admin.

I am hoping this work makes it easier for people to start extending the admin in a normalized way.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:41:01 +0000

quarkus looks interesting, I'll have to check it out.

I think there is a strong case for officially expanding the django admin to other use cases. I suppose this is a topic for another time

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:39:08 +0000

thank you for the kind words. Hopefully you get to try it out.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:23:25 +0000

Amazing. glad you're making use of dj-redis-panel. let me know if I can assist you.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:16:13 +0000

Thats the spirit. I built this to unlock the django application from platforms in such a way

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:02:21 +0000

Thats an interesting idea. One of my next steps is to create a tutorial on how to make your own panel. I'll think on this.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:00:41 +0000

They said your welcome

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:24:26 +0000

I think any large enough django project has toyed around with extending the admin in some way. Hopefully this project can help establish a standard to make this sort of thing easier.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:23:01 +0000

Thank you.

I think its good advice to avoid the admin for customer facing use cases. But for internal facing tools It seems pretty wasteful to not use the built in admin - it has all the bells as whistles to build upon (auth, permissions, etc.)

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:20:46 +0000

I'm glad you feel that way. The django admin has saved my day many times.

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:08:11 +0000

Thanks. Part of the reason this exists is simply wanting to toy around with the entrypoints system

New comment by yassi_dev in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

yassi_dev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:25:20 +0000

Thats an interesting way to frame it.

In my view. Building things with AI creates the need for common patterns and guardrails (i.e. frameworks) Then as these new apps become productionalized - tooling that fits your framework starts to become more important.

In that sense, AI increases the need for good patterns around observability. This project aims to make this a little easier to do for Django right from inside the framework as opposed to an external service.