The author enjoys learning mature technologies, and recently started using Django for a website project. Django's explicit structure, with key files like urls.py and models.py, helps the author easily understand the project. Django's built-in admin interface provides easy data management, and the ORM simplifies database interactions, with automatic migrations streamlining database changes. The author appreciates the Django documentation and prefers using SQLite for smaller projects due to its simplicity. Django's "batteries-included" approach simplifies tasks like CSRF protection and email configuration. The author is still learning, but finds Django's feature set appealing. The settings file remains somewhat daunting due to its global nature and lack of immediate typo detection. The author experiments with setting up email using different backends. The author is excited to explore Django, having primarily worked with single Go binaries or static sites. The author credits Marco Rogers for encouraging the use of ORMs.