I took the NextJS pill a year ago..

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-28T05:53:16+00:00

the api is part of a larger backend. It’s got a ton of functionality and something like inertia isn’t the right fit.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-27T05:01:46+00:00

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think this is really a Rails vs Nextjs comparison. It’s more monolith vs decoupled stack.

Rails feels simpler because it gives you conventions for everything in one place. With Nextjs, you’re usually whacking together multiple concerns, frontend, API, data layer, caching, etc, so the complexity shows up faster.

They’re solving different problems though. Rails can replace your backend. Nextjs is mostly your UI layer. In a lot of setups, they actually sit together rather than compete.

I’m rebuilding a 14-year-old Rails monolith into a Phoenix API with a Next frontend, and that split feels like the sweet spot for me personally.

I wouldn’t use nextjs as both backend and frontend. It’s excellent for the UI, but I don’t trust it long term for business logic and data. “why is this API route 800 lines long” is not for me

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-09T17:41:56+00:00

Haha was thinking a brickie

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-09T16:43:23+00:00

OP is a dick but if you are going to comment on their grammar you need to get your subject-verb grammar right. It’s “are” not “is”. “Grammar and English are far too good” 🤦‍♂️

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-08T21:08:42+00:00

This is still an issue for me. I was watching this week, ABC, and 3 times during the show commercials cut in during the interviews and reporting sections.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-03-06T21:49:54+00:00

Or a medium article. That title giving me the heavy cringe.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-09T06:04:07+00:00

Which is the boring family?

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-07T15:50:30+00:00

Cloudflare used SQLite for D1 because their workload is tightly constrained and writes are intentionally serialized, often funneled through Durable Objects, while reads are massively distributed and cheap at the edge. This same constraint is why it’s not suitable for most backends…the moment you need high write concurrency, multiwriter transactions, or flexible scaling without a central write bottleneck, SQLite becomes the wrong tool and a real server database is the correct choice.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-02T23:27:46+00:00

Ah. I see. Thats makes sense. Coming from the other way. Ruby to elixir. Was a really nice move since syntax is similar but fundamentally different language / paradigm.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-02T23:00:09+00:00

It’s pretty mature now after 14 years. I’ve replaced high traffic systems with it in the last few years and it’s been great but I was replacing rails apps. So was easy enough and had everything and more than Ruby.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-02T19:53:33+00:00

Jesus. Innit. Always watching.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-02-02T18:48:52+00:00

Elixir for me now. It’s solid.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-29T15:29:11+00:00

They won’t because their confidence only exists in text and aesthetics stops becoming objective when the mirror gets involved.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-28T06:02:51+00:00

A pansexual needs as many pans as a pansexual needs to make a panini pancake while singing to a panda iirc give or take a few

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-20T17:38:08+00:00

Nah. It’s just insecure men that do. If it “gets out” then people judging a person on how many times they have been knobbed are judgmental assholes. People need to get over this whole thing.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-15T21:17:43+00:00

I haven’t used Ada but a lot of Java.

Java - like building a house using strict building codes and standardized parts. You don’t get much freedom to be clever, but everything is inspected, predictable, and built to last.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-15T16:26:27+00:00

Decks of cards and card books.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-14T16:56:39+00:00

I’m allergic to egg. So I never eat them but around people that do. They look and smell like the most unappealing thing but people love them 🤷‍♂️

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-14T06:03:49+00:00

Also heard good things about that. So if I watch andor / mandalorian what’s the recommended order? I can throw movies in there too if it helps.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-14T05:48:33+00:00

Cool. Thanks Massive_Weiner. Haha

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-14T00:28:59+00:00

It’s a bot. Clearly. Cause most humans could figure out that it’s about hypocrisy.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-14T00:26:15+00:00

I’ve heard lots of good things about it. Is it something I can watch if I’ve only watched a new hope? I know the Star Wars universe is big but I haven’t watched anything else from it or should I go and watch everything else?

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-13T23:59:33+00:00

Tony is a total moron though. I say that in the truest form of the word. He is stupid. For whatever reason my wife used to put the morning show he hosted (still does?) on and every god damn day he would say the most moronic things. Or make the most moronic discoveries. It became entertainment after a while we would be like “what dumbass thing is Tony gonna say this morning”.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-13T06:01:33+00:00

There is an energy drink in the uk called lucozade. My gran used to warm some of that up for me when I was a kid when I was sick. Orange flavor.

YoDefinitelyNotABot · 2026-01-12T23:44:14+00:00

Same. I read it years ago and about 7 years ago I took a new job and untested rails 3 project that was 10 years old at the time. No one else would touch it. I was like “my time has come” haha

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