Sankofa Journal Step 1: The Project
On your own machine, create a virtual environment, install Django, and start a project called sankofa_journal with an app called posts. Add the app to INSTALLED_APPS, run the development server, and confirm you see the welcome page. Then deliberately break it: remove the app from INSTALLED_APPS and notice that nothing complains at all. Put it back. That silence is worth meeting once now, on purpose, rather than in an hour of confusion later.
Built it in both languages?
Mark it done once your Python and JavaScript versions both run correctly. Honesty here is what makes the dashboard useful to you.