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@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se I'd use a European phone if it supported Graphene OS
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Deni Mintsaev (mintydev)
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I make websites and rave about European 🇪🇺 tech. Founder of https://recordranks.com
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social this is great to hear that you're keeping up the fight! I'd hate to have to switch back to American email providers just cause the EU decided to kill E2E encryption.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu can we have some ACs too please? 😂 I'm dying out here...
I'm finally getting close to launch for #RecordRanks, my competition management and #sports rankings platform. Recently implemented #Stripe billing, which was actually a pretty good experience. Gonna update the home page and make a couple more tweaks to the sign up process, and then we're ready for launch! 🥳
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@HatemainstreetSM@mastodon.social @Tutanota@mastodon.social well, yeah, I could use Proton too. Just saying EU email providers would become non-starters.
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@plausible@fosstodon.org that's great! Love seeing European tech grow :)
Added @plausible@fosstodon.org #analytics 🇪🇪 to https://recordranks.com. Always exciting to use #European #tech for my projects! Plus, Plausible is better for #privacy 😎
I recently joined Ramen Club - an online community for #startup founders, and it's already been super helpful! I feel a lot more confident in what I'm doing with RecordRanks now, and it's helped me stay on the right track. Can really recommend it for aspiring entrepreneurs!
Got my first two customers for my #sports organization and ranking software RecordRanks 🥳 Both are growing sports communities that were looking for a tool that could streamline the organization process. Exciting times!
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@diegovsky@bolha.us yeah, I'm kinda done with RSC too (though I'll still use them in Next JS projects). I still very much like the full-stack developer experience of Next JS, but so far it seems like TanStack Start does it wayyyy better.
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(2/2) And I'm actually convinced now that "use server" and "use client" were horrible conventions, evidenced by the fact that they had to patch this stuff up with "server-only" and React Taint. If you're going to do magic RPCs, just make it work like a special function, like TanStack's createServerFn(), which is much better for type safety. I've spent far too much time researching the *correct* way to fetch and mutate data in Next JS and then relaying that to my team to avoid security issues 😫
Made a YouTube video explaining why I switched from #MongoDB to #Postgres. I've heard plenty of criticism of it, but not much to do with actually using it. I get into that topic in this video.
Why I ditched MongoDB for Postgres, and you should too
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@CoMaps ah cool! Is it based on the organic maps beta, or is it a desktop version purely from the Comaps team?
@CoMaps wait, CoMaps had a desktop version? Or is this the first time it's been released?
Today was my last day at my job, and now a new chapter begins in my career as I build my platform for #sports organization and rankings called #RecordRanks. I'm onboarding my first two users this week and I'm looking forward to watching it grow 🥳
I hope you'll follow me in my journey and help spread the word. If you know anyone running some kind of sports community, share this with them! There's no better platform for running sports events and automating the rankings 😉
Omg, #Mistral released Mistral Medium 3.5 yesterday, and it's so good! Already fully switched to it as my main model. Some benchmarks apparently suggest it's comparable to Sonnet 4.5. Let's support #European tech! 🇫🇷🇪🇺
https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5
Made a video about my year-long experience of rewriting the entire backend of RecordRanks and the lessons I learned from it:
My full backend rewrite that took ONE YEAR!
I have taken the plunge and will spend the next few months trying to build RecordRanks into a proper service for #sports organization and rankings, and hopefully build a small #business around it. I've contemplated "doing my own thing" for a good while now, and it's finally time to give it a proper shot!
For now, I've set up a Ko-fi page for the open source project itself: https://ko-fi.com/mintydev
Somehow I just implemented an #OAuth login method for the first time in my 5 years as a web developer. I'd only ever done email + password authentication before (and yes, with hashing, salting, and all the expected security measures). Well, I guess better late than never. Having a great experience with Better Auth so far!
Today I learned: Arm Holdings - the makers of the ARM #CPU architecture - is based in the UK 😮 And now they're even starting to make their own CPU designs, namely the Arm AGI CPU. It excites me to see this stuff, from a #European #techsovereignty perspective!
I'm happy to announce that the RecordRanks Platform – my website for competition management and #sports rankings – is now live and ready to power up your sports community! It's already being used by thousands of competitors at Cubing Contests, Google's #Speedcubing Club and a local club in Greece. It automates the entire organisation process, provides automated rankings and record calculation, and more.
Check out my article to learn more, and please share!
Well, I finally gave up on using #Mistral exclusively and gave #Deepseek a shot 😬 Very pleased with the results so far. However, I'm still keeping to my EU-hosted principles! I got a key from https://eurouter.ai and even found out the provider I'm using hosts their models in EU data centers! They have one in Dublin and one in Helsinki. So the only thing where I made a compromise was using a Chinese open weight model instead of a #European model. But still, the wait is on for Mistral Large 4!
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@hmiron@fosstodon.org yeah, it was a bit hard to stay motivated until I got to the halfway point. It helped keeping track of a full to-do list along the way.
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@hmiron@fosstodon.org I'm not sure what you mean. This project was already active for almost two years when I started the migration.
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@hmiron@fosstodon.org oh, right. Well, the most difficult part was actually just the sheer volume of features I was rewriting to work with my new stack. The learning part was pretty straightforward.
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@mariohamann@indieweb.social @renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt I recommend this video by Theo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN0kB85rxGg
Next.js 15.3: A Huge Change for Vercel
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@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange I actually have this idea for a simple web app that lets you run a very small #LLM model right in your browser without a GPU or anything and with no internet besides the initial page load. I wonder if people would find this useful, particularly mobile users.
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@davepotts@mastodon.org.uk does that not have the same security issues?
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@renchap@oisaur.com @vite@m.webtoo.ls @chaosexanima@tech.lgbt Vite is great! I wish Next JS also ran on Vite (although it seems like that might be possible soon, given the changes in Next JS v15.3).