These comments are mainly condemning the police. While they are definitely at fault here, so is society in the US as a whole. It's become pretty common in the states to not allow children to go outside without supervision. You just don't see kids biking down the road alone anymore. These cops have taken it too far, and made up reasons to arrest the parents, but in general the idea of children having any sort of freedom or responsibility is pretty much dead in this country.

What the hell?? I bike to school every day. Our bike rack has like 100 bikes each morning, I can't even count.

> It's become pretty common in the states to not allow children to go outside without supervision.

You can, just don't send them through the forest and city for hours alone, when they're literally 8.

if this is real, i doubt the intention is to get a bunch of publicity. really seemed more like venting

Federated login has existed for a while. The main diff w/ Eth is the way it works with its keys. But saying it "solved a major problem" is a real stretch. You could say the same about Okta and the like. Stuff like this has been around since the 90s.

The main problem I see w/ Eth login is that it relies on your credentials being on the machine, and makes propagating those to other machines harder for non-tech folks. Whereas the whole user/pass solution is much easier to follow for the common person.

I have mixed emotions on this framework. If you're doing a simple project, Next is the best around. Also great for marketing pages, etc. But if you have a more sophisticated app, with an API, page routes that need to toggle based on cookies, etc, then you have to integrate something like Express. I've done this several times with Next, and it just doesn't pay off. I've also tried to use it at work, but it changes rapidly, and it'd be too much to expect engineers who aren't keeping up with everything on the clientside to know what to do.

I feel like there's a need for something between roll-your-own and what vercel is offering.

I assume you're referring to what Next describes as a "Custom Server", e.g. taking over the server-side control flow.

Personally, I keep Next stock for the frontend, and just write an entirely separate backend/API server. I would want to do that in any event, just to achieve separation of concerns and avoid lock-in.

Next.js has been very good for not introducing breaking changes in my experience (especially for the JavaScript ecosystem). The changes are more along the lines of lots of new and useful things (e.g. image optimisation) as opposed to problematic maintenance issues.

I agree cookies can be a bit awkward with Next but I've always found a way around.

Would a minimalist framework like mithril.js fill that gap? I've had a pretty good experience when using it for some small to mid sized projects. Since its on the simple side, the updates are infrequent and have been pretty painless to keep up with.

Why do you have to integrate with Express? Genuinely asking – that wasn't my impression.

I think he means if you want to offer React server side you will need some-sort of web framework to serve it. Usually that's Express or Fastify or something like that.

Next.js does server-rendering and has API routes built-in. No need for Express or Fastify unless you like the DX of those frameworks better.

The Parent parent was talking about if you don’t use Next and want a more sophisticated setup then then those are alternatives.

The parent then asked why do you need to integrate [react] with Express and my answer was if you want to do server side (not using Next)

React was not even mentioned in the thread. OP mentioned integration Next with Express, not React.

Using Express and Next together is relatively common (or at least used to be): https://github.com/shdnx/next-express

Do you mind enumerating the specific pain points?

Routing seems like the biggest limitation, but it's a trade off to use their file-based routing which has it's pros too. This precludes page transitions unless you do some really ugly work arounds.

Reminds me of a story someone told me, about her grandparents who were both deaf. They had an alarm clock that had a string attached to their wrist, and would tug when they needed to wake up.

Similar to https://vercel.com/docs/v2/git-integrations/vercel-for-githu... as well

I did a similar project that I pitched to a few VCs, got negative feedback, then saw Vercel (was Zeit at the time) launch that feature. So I archived the project & OS'd it. Guess I should have pressed on

I think this might also have to do with timing. As in, this "per-PR" iteration model is now becoming popular. In our minds, after CI/CD, the next thing to automate are ~full deployments.

Runnable did this and got acquired by MuleSoft. Heroku also has this feature. Vercel is less comparable since it's only for serverless. Can you link to your project?

also the quality of blurays is still way better - during this shelter in place i've started buying some and really like it

Agreed, 95% of my moving viewing is disk. I didn't spend all these thousands on stereo and movie gear to watch low bitrate streams.

that was the exact thing that caused me to start using netflix - i used to spend so much time on cable browsing channels, only to realize i spent 30+min doing that

now the same thing is happening with netflix. i'm not sure if it's that the selection has greatly diminished, or if it's the algos (hbo max suggestions are pretty good imo)

i think the smartest thing these services do is allow you to share accounts. i would have canceled a while back but my family is using it too

If you're in the US and you're looking for movies, Netflix's selection has greatly diminished. Their movie selection peaked about a decade ago and they've lost thousands of titles since then.

I've found the opposite, and I've had disk rental since the beginning. There is maybe a dozen films out of my queue of 500 that is in the "Saved" section. Besides, what's the alternative? Nothing.

Such is life. Once the big fish saw money was to be made, of course they used their power to get a piece of the pie.

To add to that, the interactions they showed during the demo appear to be by finger, not mouse. They are treating it as iPad first, bubbling into laptops/desktops.

Apple took off with the .com boom and became a staple of every startup. But since the iPhone they've shifted to being a consumer focused company, and I don't see any reason why they would dedicate too much resources to improving their products for developers/designers.

It's pretty sad because they are still the best option. But people are not happy with them, and it's been getting worse over time. I really think Microsoft has an opportunity to cater to power users and release a really beautiful OS. But not Windows - would have to be something new

I don't get this argument. Apple built the platform, so they can set a price. Any price. Their platform, their decision. Companies like Basecamp can decide to distribute on that platform or not. It's Apple's prerogative to find the optimal fee, to pair with what companies are willing and able to pay.

Letting apps link out to websites for paywalls circumvents all of this. If I was in Apple's position I'd limit that as well.