nathanappere's comments

On: Returning to Rails in 2026

[nathanappere]

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.

On: An Update on Heroku

[nathanappere]

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

[raw_anon_1111 → nathanappere]

In 2026, every major cloud provider has a service that lets you just hand it a Docker container and let it figure out how to run it.

On: An Update on Heroku

[nathanappere]

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

[ned → nathanappere]

Have a look at Scalingo, it's a good mix of simplicity and maturity.

https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...

[esfandia → ned]

This looks nice! Wish they had a no-credit-card-required version for educational purposes. For the course I teach we use Spring Boot, and life was good with Heroku till they discontinued the no-credit-card version, and then the only choice we had (with support for Spring Boot) was to move over to Azure, which works but is a bit overkill and complicated for our purposes. I guess we could just use Docker and then many more platform would become available, but I'd rather not add one more step to the pipeline if possible.

[fabianlindfors → nathanappere]

Yes. We are taking a stab at the entire infrastructure like Heroku did but with a focus on a coding agent-centric workflow: https://specific.dev

On: Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js

[nathanappere]

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.

On: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

[nathanappere]

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.

On: Where to find ideas

[nathanappere]

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

On: Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

[nathanappere]

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

[ofjcihen → nathanappere]

That’s not a great analogy but it is one that courts have been using until recently when they admitted that it wasn’t a great analogy.

A better analogy would be using a box in a bush in a public park to store your customers information.

On: Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

[nathanappere]

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

On: The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule

[nathanappere]

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.

On: A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

[nathanappere]

What are the good projects?

[tromp → nathanappere]

The ones that

* don't financially benefit their creators

* are not a copy-paste of an existing coin with some trivial changes