Dj-beat-drop is more about making minimal changes to the official Django templates. It mainly involves standardizing to a config directory for configuration code and optionally using an `env` file and `uv` for package management.
By keeping things minimal, the chances of it getting accepted as an official Django project seem better. It would need to be renamed, of course, to something like django-installer or django-cli.
I would certainly make improvements to the script to optimize the serialization of the QuerySet to only output the needed fields. It's hard to write an article that would capture every use case and optimization required.
Right, but in another comment you talk about serializing querysets, and I'd be surprised if you can guarantee that no other developer will ever put dangerous data in any of the rows in your queryset. That approach would be building a pretty dangerous foot gun.
Just the whole approach gets dangerously close to a big security issue, even if you do it "right".
This is an excellent point; I should have addressed safety in my article. I'll point out that in my use case, I'm using `safe` on data I create and not any user-generated data.
You should never use `safe` on user data unless you use something like bleach (https://github.com/mozilla/bleach) to sanitize the data. Even then, you should use caution.
Thank you for pointing this out, I forgot about this template filter. This unfortunately still wouldn't properly all the data types mentioned in my article (e.g. QuerySets).
I was told I could benefit from hearing aids, but was told they would cost $5K to $8K depending on which ones I wanted. I've decided for now that I'll put up with the issues associated with not having them for now. I was also told they blue tooth doesn't work very well if you have an android phone, so I'm hoping that there can be some real innovation and competition in this space to drive the prices down and also improve the technology!
If you can find your way to Costco, make an appointment with their audiologist. The test is free and hearing aids are less than $900 each. Follow-up visits are free. You do not need a Costco membership unless you decide to make a purchase. If you are unhappy with your purchase you can get a refund on the hearing aids and the membership.
I believe that most of their hearing aids support bluetooth, but only when you get a pair. I only need one, so no bluetooth for me.
I've had fittings by two people at Costco. One is an audiologist and the other was less credentialed, but I forget the title. I could hear better when fitted by the audiologist.
This is so true! We were told 8k, Costco got us a top of the line set with all of the features the other set had for less than 2k for the set. Costco made a customer for life out of that deal. They do glasses as well, though I haven't used them for that and don't know if the discounts are as good or not.
I just started using hearing aids and went with the Costco Signature. Half the cost of hearing aids is the office overheads since hearing aids need significant tuning. Costco is able to leverage its existing store overhead to minimize it. The Costco ones re made by Phonak and based on the features on the Phonak Marvel series.
I don't have any first-hand experience to share, but my wife used to work at https://www.audicus.com/ which is a startup focused on exactly this problem, in case you're interested in further research.
If you have access to Costco their in house brand is much less (~$1600 pair) and good. Also I really like Bose Hearphones which work better for me and were $500, assuming you don't mind looking like you are on a conference call all the time.
That seems really high. I have the fanciest hearing aids that Costco sells (rechargeable, Bluetooth, optional external microphone) and I spent under $5K on it.
By keeping things minimal, the chances of it getting accepted as an official Django project seem better. It would need to be renamed, of course, to something like django-installer or django-cli.