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Eduardo Bouças

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Thoughts from when I was younger • Engineer @netlify.com • He/him

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Sean Roberts @javasquip.bsky.social · 2d

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Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 8d

👋 Netlify engineer here. That’s odd. Can you share the URLs where you’re seeing this behaviour?

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Raymond Camden @raymondcamden.com · 8d

I run raymondcamden.com on Netlify and its been near perfect for years. 1.5M plus page views a month with little to no hiccups.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 10d

eduardoboucas.com/posts/2025-0...

You should know this before choosing Next.js

Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implication...

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Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 11d

A while ago I wrote a blog post called "You should know this before choosing Next.js" and wow that is such a versatile title.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 11d

She'd been bedridden for years now, and every time I went to see her I thought I was going to bring her some joy. Except it was always the other way around — despite her poor health, she was the one lifting others up, with a positivity I'll forever admire.

She passed away today and I'll miss her.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 11d

She remarried my grandpa, also a widower with three kids, and they had two kids together.

"I had 5 kids, my husband had 5 kids, none of them died but there's only 8 of them".

She loved saying this and seeing people getting really confused. One of the many riddles and jokes in her vast repertoire.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 11d

This is a post about my grandma. She was born in 1928 and she had an incredible life. In her early twenties, with three small children, she lost her husband. I can't begin to imagine how scary it must've been to be a single mother of three in 1950s Portugal, but she pulled through.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 20d

I used my vibe-coded app to plan my dinner.

sandwish.netlify.app/645773cc4012...

(The photo is terrible, but the burger was yummy.)

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Nick Taylor @nickyt.online · Sep 4

I made a sandwich with @eduardoboucas.com sandwish.netlify.app/1cdf86f4cc37...

A truly delicious creation by nick. Stack yours and share it with the world!

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Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

That’s great feedback, thanks!

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

Yeah, that would happen. Why do you use the `--offline` flag, if I may ask? Is it literally when you're working without an internet connection, or is there another use case?

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

My pleasure. I selfishly focused my replies on the paper cuts because I can use your feedback to improve the experience, but the write up is great and a really clever use of the Netlify primitives!

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

That's fair! Would you find it useful if the CLI cached the last configuration it retrieved from the UI and used that when you run it with the `--offline` flag, as opposed to silently using only the local configuration?

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

I suspect that setting those is what causes the `ntl dev` flow to not work properly. We should be able to detect all those settings automatically and route the calls to the local server. It's strange that it didn't work for you.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

The default functions directory is `netlify/functions` (not `.netlify`!). If you use that, you don't need to configure anything in netlify.toml.

I hope this helps. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have and thanks again for sharing this!

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

As for the need to set configuration when using --offline, we merge your local configuration (from netlify.toml) with any settings you've set in the UI. When using --offline, the CLI can't talk to our servers to get any settings you've specified in the UI; so only the local settings are used.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

And in fact that's the same behaviour observed when using the local server module exposed by the `@netlify/blobs` module. The CLI is a convenience layer on top of that, so that you don't have to work with that server module directly.

You also shouldn't need to set `siteID`, `edgeURL` or `token`.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 4

Hi, Netlify engineer here. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

I'm curious about your local dev setup and why the CLI's `dev` command hasn't worked for you. When used locally, your data isn't actually persisted to a live Blobs store, but it is saved locally on your machine, so we don't mock it.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Sep 2

Idea: an em dash certification programme.

If the system can find content using em dashes that has been verifiably authored by you before the proliferation of LLMs, you get verified as an OG em dash user.

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Aug 28

I have just bankrupted my two little nephews at Monopoly. I saw their hopes and dreams vanish into thin air as they handed me their cash; and yet I showed no mercy. What kind of monster am I?

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Aug 24

This has been haunting me for months. What could I possibly have done to get a bad review from an Uber driver?

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Nick Taylor @nickyt.online · Aug 23

Looking forward to hanging with @eduardoboucas.com in early September. Joins us as we dig into @netlify.com primitives and the local dev experience!

nickyt.live#2025-09-04-e...

Netlify primitives & Local DX

Host Nick Taylor
Guest: Eduardo Bouças Distinguished Engineer & Technical Advisor to the CTO at Netlify

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Mike Heffner @mike.heffner.io · Aug 19

When you've got to use up the garden tomatoes that are about to go bad: sandwish.netlify.app/ac70ab777318...

Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · Aug 18

If you build a sandwich, please share it! I'd love to see what funky combinations y'all come up with.

Also, the entire application is available at github.com/netlify/sand.... If you have feature requests or you decide to deploy your own shop, I'd love to hear about it too. 🔚

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