Hacker News: nathanappere

New comment by nathanappere in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

nathanappere — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:39:44 +0000

The experience of "you push, provision databases & dependencies in 3 clicks, and it just works" is sadly still unmatched.

New comment by nathanappere in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

nathanappere — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:41:01 +0000

I think people just mean "using vector databases to enable RAG".

New comment by nathanappere in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

nathanappere — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:18:59 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "An Update on Heroku"

nathanappere — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:42:44 +0000

What's a better offering that makes it easier to push projects in production?

New comment by nathanappere in "An Update on Heroku"

nathanappere — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:41:02 +0000

But their offering is "frontend oriented", what you describe doesn't work for django / laravel / rails / etc, no ?

New comment by nathanappere in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

nathanappere — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:43:40 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

nathanappere — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:16:57 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "Where to find ideas"

nathanappere — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:16:32 +0000

You can just rephrase it as "an idea alone is worthless without proper execution" which is what is meant.

New comment by nathanappere in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

nathanappere — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 09:17:48 +0000

Curious, have you tried entering people houses when the door is open?

New comment by nathanappere in "Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED"

nathanappere — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:08 +0000

It does if you have blocking calls or you cannot yield to the event loop in time consuming code.

New comment by nathanappere in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

nathanappere — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:13:50 +0000

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?

New comment by nathanappere in "The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule"

nathanappere — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:32:35 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house"

nathanappere — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:11:44 +0000

What are the good projects?

New comment by nathanappere in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

nathanappere — Mon, 12 May 2025 06:52:36 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason"

nathanappere — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:22:02 +0000

I laughed

New comment by nathanappere in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

nathanappere — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:54:58 +0000

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.

New comment by nathanappere in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

nathanappere — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:57:39 +0000

"React very much feels like programming using only side-effects" this absolutely nails it.

New comment by nathanappere in "Founder Mode"

nathanappere — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:21:35 +0000

> Fix the rules if the rules are stupid"

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

New comment by nathanappere in "Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site"

nathanappere — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:19:03 +0000

You're mistaking corporations for people.

New comment by nathanappere in "Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site"

nathanappere — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:17:22 +0000

So for you it's the same than being paid by a private corporation?