Agiliq is a Django and Python consultancy whose blog has tutorials on Django, Python internals, web frameworks and Android.
HN commenters link it for Django how-tos, such as its serverless Django guide, and for a trolley-problem ethics questionnaire it built.
The main developer James Bennett has discussed his reasons several times on multiple venues, but the FAQ in the Read the Docs for django-registration gives details in "Does django-registration come with any sample templates I can use right away?"
https://django-registration.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#installation-and-setup
Other people have provided good baselines to work from, the Djen of Django provides explanations with their samples:
http://agiliq.com/books/djenofdjango/chapter5.html#reusable-apps
(note I haven't upgraded to 1.0 so not sure if there are any incompatibilities)
Can you suggest some good resources for newbies/laymen on the topic?
Edit - For anyone else who might be looking, this page gives a nice pythonic example:
http://agiliq.com/blog/2009/06/generating-pseudo-random-text-with-markov-chains-u/
There are different kinds of trolley-switchers. This questionnaire can tell you which kind you are. https://www.agiliq.com/notebook/ethical-framework-trolley/
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=trolley
This would be an example:
https://www.agiliq.com/blog/2018/01/understanding-python-magic-methods-with-djang-querysets/
Django actually has a serverless story now: https://www.agiliq.com/blog/2019/01/complete-serverless-django/
Docs at
http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-merchant/en/latest/
and
http://agiliq.com/docs/merchant/