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nathanappere

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Love building anything web oriented.
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nathanappere··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
It's almost as if, for him, it was more about him than Rails...
nathanappere··on My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”
It makes the frog a king which is not in the prompt, so there is a bit of confusion.
nathanappere··on Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?
The experience of "you push, provision databases & dependencies in 3 clicks, and it just works" is sadly still unmatched.
nathanappere··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
I think people just mean "using vector databases to enable RAG".
nathanappere··on Returning to Rails in 2026
But we need contracts that go way further what static typing provides. If they add dependant types + ability to enforce the types at runtime so that you can use it on various inputs, then maybe it will be truly useful.
nathanappere··on An Update on Heroku
What's a better offering that makes it easier to push projects in production?
nathanappere··on An Update on Heroku
But their offering is "frontend oriented", what you describe doesn't work for django / laravel / rails / etc, no ?
nathanappere··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Don't know how much you have used ember, but I disagree, it's quite sane as a programming model and ember data is still ahead in terms of developper comfort for client apps.
nathanappere··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
100% this! I'm amazed at how most issues with React are non-issues with Ember, and still saddened by how often React dev are completely unaware of how these issues have been solved elsewhere.
nathanappere··on Where to find ideas
You can just rephrase it as "an idea alone is worthless without proper execution" which is what is meant.
nathanappere··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
Curious, have you tried entering people houses when the door is open?
nathanappere··on Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
It does if you have blocking calls or you cannot yield to the event loop in time consuming code.
nathanappere··on In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
It assumes there is a need for that software. It's not because I can ship the nth clone of flappy bird in minutes that I will?
nathanappere··on The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
Note that you do not on websites that are not trying to use your data without your consent. Rephrased: the issue might not be the law.
nathanappere··on A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house
What are the good projects?
nathanappere··on In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
Because most software doesn’t need to be good, but just hit the “kind of does the job well enough” line. It improves velocity for this usecase.
nathanappere··on I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason
I laughed
nathanappere··on Five years of React Native at Shopify
After having used Ember for several years I find it very sad they didn't develop a "mobile" offering, the dev experience is fastly superior (especially as it relates to state handling).

Hooks are a bit of a cancer, they leak absolutely everywhere on top of making it quite difficult to reason about re-renders.

nathanappere··on Five years of React Native at Shopify
"React very much feels like programming using only side-effects" this absolutely nails it.
nathanappere··on Founder Mode
> Fix the rules if the rules are stupid"

"Pay excellent people out of band, for example." why not fix the band ?

nathanappere··on Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
You're mistaking corporations for people.
nathanappere··on Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site
So for you it's the same than being paid by a private corporation?
nathanappere··on Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?
This doesn't work with the constraint of "staying on AWS" though.
nathanappere··on Practical Railway-Oriented Pipelines in Ruby
I use a functional version of this that can chain any "callables" + support extensions on the calling interface https://docs.rubykit.org/kit-organizer/edge/Kit.Organizer.Se...
nathanappere··on Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?
And what's wrong with shedding some light on this behaviour so that it changes and starts complying with the law?

Also: "Your jumping to defend YC companies make me wonder if you're not just a fan boy. Maybe come down form your high horse thinking that you need to defend these YC companies breaking the law?" See where I took it from & how bad it looks?

nathanappere··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
How does this answer the parent comment at all?!
nathanappere··on Moving from React to htmx
Really curious, how is it worse with Ruby?
nathanappere··on CEO's LinkedIn crying selfie about layoffs met with backlash
You pretty much only "take responsibility" if you step down.
nathanappere··on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
"Perhaps the War" by Ada Palmer. Incredibly good SG, what a mind she has!
nathanappere··on Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
"Not publicly available" is not the same as "there is no service".
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