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Martijn Hols
Personal blog · martijnhols.nl/blog · on HN as MartijnHolsprogrammingwebsecurity
Martijn Hols's personal blog at martijnhols.nl covers programming, web and security. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Martijn Hols's posts criticising Next.js and Vercel, including tests of how much traffic a pre-rendered Next.js site can handle and the history of Next's caching and Turbopack.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Met 20+ jaar full-stack ervaring, waarvan 10+ jaar gespecialiseerd in React, help ik teams met complexe front-end vraagstukken en architectuur. Laten we kennismaken!
Most-linked posts?
- How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-06
- The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-31
- The security implications of packages in front-end apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
- Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21
What Hacker News says?
Depends on the project. For websites I like to use a statically generated Nextjs site served by nginx[1] and for SPAs Nginx that serves a Vite-built static bundle with a backend that’s in whatever language the backend team chose. [1] https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rende...
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on “Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button”Submitted Moving away from US cloud services as a story · 580 points
HN discussionIt's not just noise though; clients are actually experiencing crashes and other issues because of it. I wrote an in-depth article on the Google Translate extension's interference of React (and other webapps): https://martijnhols.nl/blog/everything-about-google-translat... It's no wonder frontend has a lot more errors, after all it has to support so many more client variations than a typical backend. It can be very h…
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on “Et Tu, Grammarly?”Submitted Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps) as a story · 108 points
HN discussionThey both do reasonable things, so I wouldn't really blame either. Google Translate was there first and is a big accessibility advantage for the web. At the same time, Google Translate is the user-specific browser extension that is executed last, on top of existing apps. It affects not just React[1], so even if React were to implement a fix, Google Translate would continue to interfere with other webapps. I think an…
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on “Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)”Submitted How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle? as a story · 76 points
HN discussionIt's the Vercel way to first run broken previews for several years. Next started with Turbopack alpha as a Webpack alternative in Next 13 (October 2022) and finally marked Turbopack as stable and default in Next 16 (October 2025). They also ran sketchy benchmarks against Vite back in 2022 [0]. Next's caching has a terrible history [1], it is demonstrably slow [2] (HN discussion [3]), RSCs had glaring security holes…
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on “Vite 8.0 Is Out”Submitted The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps as a story · 8 points
HN discussionA very interesting article, although i get 404 when following the OP post, i found the article here: https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rende... My impression of nextjs is pretty mediocre already, and perhaps this article hits because I'm confirming my preconceived notions. Thanks anyway!
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on “How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?”Submitted Moving away from US cloud services as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy website did not have a blog until last week and it’s still mostly hidden. I landed two well paying freelance jobs directly with customers (i.e. no recruiters) from it. They had a project, needed help, Googled and found me. Sharing this to say that while I reckon a blog will help, it’s not essential. I only started working on a blog _after_ my websites proved itself. If you’re curious, it’s an about me with projec…
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on “Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?”Submitted The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything About Google Translate Crashing React as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping Dependencies Up-to-Date as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The security implications of packages in front-end apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The security risks of front-end dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The security implications of packages in front-end apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping Dependencies Up-to-Date as a story · 1 points
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