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dimitrisnl

174 karma · joined September 13, 2019

Hey there!

Here's my website: https://dnlytras.com

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dimitrisnl··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Locking it behind a CSS blur effect? lol ok.
dimitrisnl··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
Looks like a fantastic opportunity and product. I'll share it!
dimitrisnl··on Show HN: CrossX – iOS/macOS App to Convert web/X articles to ePub for e-reader
Brilliant, going to try it asap. I was looking for something like this!
dimitrisnl··on How dependabot works
I hate it with passion. It won't respect pinned versions in package.json. I have to explicitly exclude stuff. Be better.
dimitrisnl··on It's 2026 now. Is Webpack 6.x going to happen?
Nothing wrong with jQuery. If a dev dependency irks me, I have no reason to revisit it no matter how better it got. We moved on.
dimitrisnl··on It's 2026 now. Is Webpack 6.x going to happen?
Any release will definitely not restore Webpack as the "first choice". That ship has sailed and Webpack has accumulated a lot of bad rep.

Maybe for a few people who used to run Webpacker in Rails, and migrated to shakapacker instead of Vite, it will be good news.

When a tool like this (which was never pleasant to work with) loses the lead, it never restores it.

dimitrisnl··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
Noob question, but why no use ints for PK, and UUIDs for a public_id field?
dimitrisnl··on RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
They haven't implemented RSC yet.
dimitrisnl··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
The post is mostly about Phoenix LiveView, while the title makes it about the framework.

To be honest one of the reasons I don't like Phoenix is that even if I opt-out of LV in the generators, I still get a lot of LV code.

dimitrisnl··on Vercel raises Series F at $9.3B valuation
what a timing
dimitrisnl··on TanStack Start v1 Release Candidate
I have only good things to say about TanStack start. I know there's some fatigue when it comes to full-stack JS/TS frameworks, since they re-invent ways to do data fetching, but are not in any way batteries-included.

I prefer it over Next.js and the whole RSC story, and it has sensible features that I missed in Remix (server functions from everywhere [1], middleware, type safety)

I wouldn't pick it as a full-stack framework, I will always keep my backend separate, but for a SSR-capable TypeScript framework it's amazing.

[1]: https://tanstack.com/start/latest/docs/framework/react/serve...

dimitrisnl··on Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces
Any good book recommendations?
dimitrisnl··on Ask HN: What do you do to kill time that isn't social media?
Chess, I play on Lichess[1]. I started about a year and a half ago.

[1]: https://lichess.org/

dimitrisnl··on Ask HN: Why Write?
Try having a healthy relationship, kids, responsibilities, work, and some form of hobbies. If I don't write my thoughts, ideas, whatever, I lose the ball.
dimitrisnl··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
I tried various astro sites, and as a user, a few things keep bugging me. - Visit their docs https://docs.astro.build/en/basics/astro-pages/ - Click `Routes` in the navigation

Now: 1. There's a flicker in the content where the sidebar moves on the left 2. The title displays `docs.astro.build` for a split second before it says "Routing | Docs"

Especially the second is quite annoying. I see it in every Astro site.

dimitrisnl··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
Well, they have consistent naming for a start.
dimitrisnl··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
The best way to ship React to production is with Vite. It opens up tons of options (Tanstack, RR, Simple SPA, whatever) and you don't even bring the hosting provider into the discussion.
dimitrisnl··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
Another follow-up. Some libraries[1] started to break from 15.1.8 onwards, so you had to downgrade to the vulnerable versions the author mentioned as well.

[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/next-mdx-remote/issues/488

dimitrisnl··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
Oof. I'm sure Vercel might patch this issue. But I had had enough of these little annoyances. For example, the documented way to identify prefetches in the middleware has been broken for weeks (months?).

A lot of small issues that keep adding up. I'm not going to shill something else here, but I have a bit of Next.js fatigue lately. Still love the JS ecosystem though.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this up!

dimitrisnl··on PSG is the proof Founders can win without Top Talent [video]
A state-owned club, with half a billion spent on transfers in the last 5 years, is the correct office job inspiration. Congrats.
dimitrisnl··on Ask HN: Why reinvent front-end frameworks and static site builders?
Why reinvent televisions and speakers?
dimitrisnl··on Wake Up, Remix
The original title is `Wake up, Remix!` with an exclamation mark. Now it reads more like "Come on now Remix.."
dimitrisnl··on Remix Breaks Up with React
Let's wait for the team to announce this, instead of going for draft posts please.
dimitrisnl··on Zod 4
Entire classes of problems simply don't exist, if you also close your eyes.
dimitrisnl··on Show HN: "Blog as a Service" for Next.js Sites
Generate gibberish as a service
dimitrisnl··on The One-Person Framework in Practice
There's no login/register/reset/forget pages generated. Neither their controllers. Only some basic middleware for that.
dimitrisnl··on The One-Person Framework in Practice
Is there a 1st party auth package? I can't remember any - They were guiding you to the adoniscasts videos, which some are paid. Very hard to get traction like this.
dimitrisnl··on The One-Person Framework in Practice
It's part of the success. There's a reason you don't hear similar 1-person stories with Express.
dimitrisnl··on The One-Person Framework in Practice
I found the lack of 1st party auth system annoying. Phoenix, for example gives me a nice starting point (even magic links soon). Adonis for all its features, turns me to what I hate. The JS auth implementations.
dimitrisnl··on The Difficulty in Dating Good Men (Aella)
> The difficulty in dating good men

> Aella is (...) blogger, sex worker, and camgirl

I don't think many good men want sex workers and orgy organizers as their SO.

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