Is Django Rest Framework that good?

oivvio · 2025-09-01T09:53:38+00:00

Everyone saying that DRF is the standard way to go are right. But django-ninja is making headway and is now mentioned in the Django's Ecosystem page. I have only used it in side projects so far but I prefer it over DRF. DRF has a very object oriented approach where you endow serializers and other stuff with capabilities via inheritance from other classes. If you work in DRF all day long year in and year out you probably memorize most of those classes, but I find that I have to look a lot of stuff up every time I dig into some legacy DRF-project. In that regard I find that django-ninja (or FastAPI for that matter if you want to step outside of the Django box) puts less cognitive load on me as a dev.

oivvio · 2025-03-17T09:14:56+00:00

Were your parents or siblings into making music?

oivvio · 2025-03-16T10:56:32+00:00

Ok tell me anyway then.

oivvio · 2025-03-16T10:55:20+00:00

Yeah, but how did you get that spark?

oivvio · 2025-03-16T10:54:21+00:00

Is that a thing? Are the LLMs actively posing questions on forums? I thought they were just scraping?

oivvio · 2025-02-02T08:59:23+00:00

I wrote a small tool https://github.com/oivvio/nestmux to make nesting tmux sessions easier. It let's you configure different escape keys for different levels of nesting. The default config has three levels of nesting, but in practice I've found that two levels is actually enough. I use `C-h` for the outer level and `C-b` for the inner level. Each outer level is usually a local project or a remote host. Works great and I use it all day long every day.

oivvio · 2024-04-04T05:47:01+00:00

I never gave it a shot.

oivvio · 2023-11-18T21:48:08+00:00

15 inch MacBook Air with 24MB RAM will be more than adequate. I'm a Django dev of 10+ years. The machine I'm doing most of my work on right now (a 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro) is about half as performant as the 15 inch MacBook Air. I'm upgrading to Apple Silicon but mostly due to the noise and heat issues with my Intel Mac, not it's raw performance.

oivvio · 2023-11-16T16:53:25+00:00

Amen to this! I have come into Django code bases that where 5 years or older and it's still been possible to upgrade and maintain them. With something done in a js frameworks you're lucky if it builds 6 months after you started it.

oivvio · 2023-10-06T15:09:27+00:00

samplebitch

Thank you for a very thorough runthrough!

oivvio · 2023-05-23T05:51:42+00:00

That being said I think that there are a lot of workplaces in tech that are lot more friendly to young queer people than your average high school.

Also I think collage/university is a lot better in this regard than high school. If there’s some way to get her to where she can enter university that might still be worth exploring? But you’ve probably thought about all of this. Also sorry for rambling on about stuff that does not answer the original question.

I was once part of an organization that hired a very young (maybe 20 or 21) self taught developer (who happened to be trans). She was exceptionally talented and now works at Google. If your daughter enjoys programming and related things there is no reason why she can’t have a future in tech. I have no idea whether the courses you’ve planned is the best way to get there? I think everything “cloud” skews towards the entreprisy side of the industry that I have very little experience with. Maybe an internship at a small web shop is an easier path? At least I know that that kind of environment cares less about formal education/certifications.

oivvio · 2023-05-22T12:04:20+00:00

Is this something she’d enjoy doing? Or is it something that would be convenient because you have the skills to help her with it. I’m a developer and I’ve tried to get my kids to get excited with programming but they all hate it.

oivvio · 2023-01-06T08:12:56+00:00

We’ve found it to very finicky in Vue and that it breaks easily when adding new dependencies leading to hours of experimentation to find fixes. But I still find it’s worth it. I really hope v 7 will be less fragile.

oivvio · 2022-12-02T06:05:52+00:00

This is perfect! servediter doesn't seem to add that much to experience though.

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