I use Django and there are some things that annoy me, like the fact we still need Django Rest Framework for a decent API experience, but at the same time, Django and DRF probably overuse inheritance and abstractions, to a point that every now and then I have to look up their source code to understand what’s exactly happening.

Lack of type annotations is another aspect Django really needs to catch up compared to other frameworks, and the whole dynamic nature of Django makes it difficult to have type stubs from third party packages working reliably, with lots of false negatives and false positives. So sometimes I still have runtime errors due to typing that could have been prevented in a different framework/ORM.

So I understand why some people are adopting different and more lightweight frameworks in new projects. The admin panel can be nice, but I’m not sure I’d choose Django myself to start a new project today.

The post is about why no one is talking about Django, not not why they’re not using it. A lot of people use it, it’s still a solid choice, but it’s probably far from the things hyped in social media.

an investment company with ties to the government? shocking

You do what you want with your money, but selecting or not a service based on whether there’s an investment company holding a significant share on it, that happens to donate 30% more to party X over Y is a weird argument. Dig enough and you’ll run out of companies to buy things from.

got 1%, but it doesn’t show the tracks, so what’s the point

it’s a grammar checker, it doesn’t matter if it’s based on markov chains, AI, or good vibes. It’ll fix grammar, not writing style.

you’ll have to be more specific

I don’t think it violates ToS, it’s public data. One can even search for emails directly like this and get millions of matches

https://github.com/search?q=%2F.*%40gmail.com%2F&type=commits

it’s a shitty thing to do, and I wouldn’t want my name or company associated to it, but I don’t think it violates ToS

but that’s how git works… if you have public commits anyone can get that email, it’s not github leaking it, it’s you

if this is an address publicly visible from commits, anyone can do it

set a noreply address for future commits

git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"

I’ve been using cookie autodelete to clean crap from most sites, but whitelisting the ones I don’t want to log back in every time

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

another advantage is that cookies are cleaned seconds after the last tab on that website is closed

what happened to 2024 Jensen Huang?

not true, you can enable authentication via CF Access

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/applications/http-apps/

I’d just take it out if it’s removable. If you really care about keeping it on during power outages, I’d get an actual UPS to have router and potentially other equipment also plugged in, because I don’t see a “remote” laptop on its own as being very useful without at least the local network up.

if you decide to leave it plugged in, you can configure it to stop charging at e.g. 80% and charge it again at e.g. 30%, that way it keeps a percentage that will extend the battery life.

that section 2.8 was removed https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

new terms https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

I believe that’s not in their terms for years now, at least in my untrained eyes

worth mentioning the old TOS banned video streaming across cloudflare products, but I don’t see a similar umbrella restriction in the current base terms, or in the terms of cloudflare zero trust.

also, make sure you have the rights to transmit the content and are not infringing anyone’s intellectual property rights, ofc 😇

so she wants to be forgotten?

OpenCode Go/Zen have deepseek models that have the best cost-benefit out there. Then OpenRouter with selected providers if I want to try something else.

I don’t spend more than $20/month on personal projects and still manage to have a lot more functionality than I could have without AI.

Opencode Go and Zen are both much cheaper than anything from anthropic or openai. So much so that even paying per token can be cheaper than Anthropic’s subscription. Deepseek models specifically are 10x cheaper and almost as good as what you get with anthropic sonnet.

But that’s the thing with benchmarks, you run them because making assumptions about performance based on guesswork often fails. SQLite is very much architecturally unique for being a daemon-less database that doesn’t concern itself with concurrent writes.

Is UUID as pk slower than int or bigints? Probably - you’re storing 4x more data than a 32-bit integer. Does it matter? Probably not.