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New comment by nop_slide in "What About Rails?"

nop_slide — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:14:47 +0000

Funny, I migrated my FastAPI project to Rails 2 years ago and couldn't be happier.

The Exe.dev iOS App

nop_slide — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:56:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/ios

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558260

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nop_slide in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

nop_slide — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:46:36 +0000

Anyone have a copy? Author seems to have deleted it

New comment by nop_slide in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

nop_slide — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:01:50 +0000

This is what I use, great little library and haven’t touched nor thought about my auth since I set it up.

New comment by nop_slide in "Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file"

nop_slide — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:34:44 +0000

All in*

New comment by nop_slide in "Statecharts: hierarchical state machines"

nop_slide — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:30:26 +0000

Anyone remember Sproutcore JS? They used state charts.

https://guides.sproutcore.com/getting_started_2.html

New comment by nop_slide in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

nop_slide — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:21:00 +0000

I'm personally fine with a little bit of downtime for my particular small app. I'm just surprised there's not a more detailed story around deploying sqlite in a high availability prod environment given it's increased popularity and coverage over the last few years. Especially surprising with Rails' (my stack) going full "sqlite-first".

New comment by nop_slide in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

nop_slide — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:42:18 +0000

I still haven't figured out a good way to due blue/green sqlite deploys on fly.io. Is this just a limitation of using sqlite or using Fly? I've been very happy with sqlite otherwise, rather unsure how to do a cutover to a new instance.

Anyone have some docs on how to cutover gracefully with sqlite on other providers?

New comment by nop_slide in "Music for Programming"

nop_slide — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:44:27 +0000

Yoooo thanks for the rec this is spot on up my alley.

You might also like mood indigo on SoundCloud, mix of house and DnB been a solid programming session soundtrack for me over the last few years.

https://on.soundcloud.com/5HzXSAKAdM41bxIvdp

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

nop_slide — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:43:36 +0000

Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-the-wasteland-a-thousand-gas-towns-a5eb9bc8dc1f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250133

Points: 68

# Comments: 96

New comment by nop_slide in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

nop_slide — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:17:53 +0000

Old ipads are great until apps start not working with the OS. I have a 2017 and Disney+ just dropped support for my current OS version and I can't update further.

New comment by nop_slide in "An Update on Heroku"

nop_slide — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:11:11 +0000

why split, you could use railway and render for both front end and back end

New comment by nop_slide in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

nop_slide — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:58:25 +0000

You might find https://www.basepowercompany.com/ interesting, 25kwh battery for $700 down and $20/month

New comment by nop_slide in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

nop_slide — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:33:48 +0000

Or just don’t do retro and save even more time and money!

New comment by nop_slide in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

nop_slide — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:14:28 +0000

> The Backbone code is brutally honest about what it's doing. An event fires, a handler runs, you build some HTML, you put it in the DOM. It's verbose, sure, but there's no mystery. A junior developer can trace exactly what happens and when. The mental model is straightforward: "when this happens, do this." > The React code hides a lot. And once you move past simple examples, you hit problems that don't make sense until you understand React's internals. I relate to this a lot. I have had to read these two very large articles multiple times to calcify my mental model for understanding exactly _when_ react does something and _why_ it did or did not. https://overreacted.io/a-complete-guide-to-useeffect/ https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-... Backbone was also my first framework that I haven’t touched in over 10 years, but looking at the code examples from the article I completely understood what was going on.

New comment by nop_slide in "Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?"

nop_slide — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:42:00 +0000

Sounds like what https://www.basepowercompany.com/ is doing

New comment by nop_slide in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

nop_slide — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:59:44 +0000

At $JOB we're using both flask-pydantic and flask-openapi via those libraries and they are serving us just fine.

But yes async does not matter to me.

New comment by nop_slide in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

nop_slide — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:50:11 +0000

https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-pydantic

https://luolingchun.github.io/flask-openapi3/v4.x/

> dependency injection

While nice I never found this to be a critical deciding factor of using a technology.

> real async

If you really want it there is Quart which is real async

https://github.com/pallets/quart

I'm not a huge async fan in python anymore so not it's not a huge issue for me. But there are definitely options for Flask if you want to use async.

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

nop_slide — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:57:59 +0000

Yeah def odd, I'm a recent rails convert and SolidQueue is dead simple and is setup out of the box.

When paired with https://github.com/akodkod/solid-queue-dashboard you get a nice overview.

New comment by nop_slide in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

nop_slide — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:56:02 +0000

After using both Flask and FastAPI extensively I can attest that Flask is the better technology. Flask is extremely stable and has solid organization around them via Pallets. This is a great benefit as they are keeping the ecosystem moving forward and stable.

https://palletsprojects.com/

Versus FastAPI which is lead by a single maintainer which you can search back on HN about opinions on how he's led things.

Flask also has at time of writing only 5 open issues and 6 open PRs, while FastAPI has over 150 PRs open and 40 pages(!) of discussions (which I believe they converted most of their issues to discussions).

Lastly on the technical side, I found Flasks threaded model with a global request context to be really simple to reason about. I'm not totally sold on async Python anymore and encountered odd memory leaks in FastAPI when trying to use it.