Joan’s parent company, Visionect[1], also produces the Place & Play, a 13” or 36” eInk display[2]. Some guy created a rotating newspaper frame from it[3]. Looks quite amazing, and it has a 1 year battery life.
I moved with my girlfriend from our apartment in Amsterdam to her family holiday home on an island in South-Eastern Europe. We save a decent amount of cash (our rent+utilities was 2000€ alone) and live an amazing life here.
Definitely considering to find remote-only positions in the future. Currently my company allows me to wait out COVID anywhere within roughly the same timezone.
Django abstracts away a bit too much, if you ask me. For a simple REST API it's complete overkill. I prefer Flask or Falcon[0], in which you don't just get better performance[1] but also a lower level of control.
You want the complete opposite; have as many problems solved for you already with battle-tested ways to break out of the happy path when you need to.
Every sufficiently large Flask app becomes a half-assed reinvention of half of Django, except without the hundreds of thousands of eyeballs and man-centuries of bug fixing.
I agree with your parent. When I started with (Python) webdev some years ago I picked Flask, but nowadays I use Django, as it has superb documentation and useful things built-in. In particular I miss the user-management, authentication and authorization in Flask.
Personally I consider Django without any additional apps less complex than Flask with apps (or "plugins" in Flask jargon) to handle basic stuff like auth.
If performance is a concern, both of them are insufficient and I would rather pick another language like Rust, Go or even Java.
I started with Flask, moved to Django, and now at work am back on Flask. It all depends on what you are building; if you are going to need some ORM, standard auth, etc, Django is a no brainer. However if you are going to be building out much of your own idiosyncratic architecture, Flask gets out of your way and avoids including lots of things you don't need.
For performance, we are building some parts of our system with Clojure. It feels extremely well suited, albeit with some initial learning curve.
That's cool! How do you deal with tracking while it doesn't have GPS signal?
WiFi I suppose, using a mapping from BSSID -> lat/long, like Mozilla Location Services or Combain.
What's the power consumption like from attempting to get a GPS lock? Luggage presumably spends most of it's life indoors. I imagine a WiFi scan uses less power than attempting to acquire a GPS signal.
I'm a hobbyist when it comes to hardware/IOT, I've been working on something similar but for RV's instead of luggage. Much harder constraints when it comes to luggage! RVs have power and room to spare.
Oh, you could put a small generator on the luggage wheels, to charge it a bit while wheeling the luggage around!
You still really think that? I am not so sure. A self-hosted blog, e.g. Ghost, is much more user-friendly. The amount of popups before you can read an article on Medium is embarrassing. That "You have a moment?" is really getting old. Besides, I can't remember last time I read a quality article on there.
