But if you ask me, it's worth it. Not only because of the small dopamine hits I get every day, but also because my mind stays at ease knowing there is less digital garbage floating around out there.

Same with source code repositories, social media, and professional accounts. I can't stand the thought of random stuff floating around out there — digital garbage that I'm responsible for.

It's gotten pretty bad for me: You won't find much about me online beyond what I choose to share because I constantly delete things I have created haha. When something becomes irrelevant to my current life, I archive it in my Nextcloud and scrub it from the internet.

LOL

And if you ever find any other limitation that was clearly added to restrict developer freedom please reach out. I will gladly remove it for you.

Absolutely agree. The community will only benefit from an open-source, actively maintained fork of Next.js that has backward compatibility and removes vendor lock-in. I'm still super early in my own fork, but I can definitely say that for the foreseeable future I will be working on it.

FYI comments appear to be broken on your blog. When I try to login using Bluesky to comment, it returns an error: "Hmmm…we couldn't find that Leaflet. You can email us for help!"

Hey Dominik! Thank you for writing this. Your middleware saga captures what drove me to fork Next.js last month. We all have had enough of @vercel.com hostility toward anyone not deploying on their edge runtime.

And I REALLY wonder if that is why bunker demand is high right now, millionaires building these crazy underground shelters with everything they need... and then Ellon and Jeff are literally trying to abandon ship to Mars. Feels like a sci-fi plot when you see the big picture LOL

To have such a simple stance on a complicated matter like racism suggests either ignorance or malice. But since he is widely recognized as a genius, being ignorant doesn't seem plausible 😜

LLMs are just statistical models with runtime capabilities. Impressive? Absolutely. Revolutionary? Yes. But let's stop buying into the hype from people like Sam Altman who push narratives for financial gain. Do your homework, and stop believing every myth online!