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St. Alexius Cathedral website

The website of the cathedral in Samarkand: news, the Orthodox calendar, lives of saints and smart search

My role
Developer and administrator
Period
2021 — now
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The website of St. Alexius Cathedral in Samarkand — I do everything from design to the server. Django 6 with HTMX and Alpine.js, fuzzy search on pg_trgm tuned on real data, the Orthodox calendar with date rules and a computed Paschalion, about 2,100 lives of saints, 46 feasts, a 229-term glossary and 588 news posts imported from the Telegram channel. In 2026 I rewrote my own first version of the site from 2021.

What I did

  • Sole developer: 119 commits and about 550 tests
  • The Orthodox calendar with a computed Paschalion
  • Fuzzy search on PostgreSQL pg_trgm
  • 588 news posts imported from Telegram
  • Media in my own S3, SEO with hreflang, runs on my own server

Stack

  • Python
  • Django
  • Celery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • MinIO / S3
  • HTMX
  • Alpine.js

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