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The Bug That Wasn't a Bug
NextAuth hung on Vercel. I blamed Prisma. I blamed serverless. I blamed cold starts. Turns out it was a 1438-byte packet and a WireGuard tunnel that couldn't carry it.
NextAuth hung on Vercel. I blamed Prisma. I blamed serverless. I blamed cold starts. Turns out it was a 1438-byte packet and a WireGuard tunnel that couldn't carry it.
I used Arch for half a decade. I loved pacman and the AUR. Then NixOS showed me what a declarative operating system looks like, and I'm never going back.
Vercel is free, it works, and it lets backend engineers like me pretend we know what we're doing on the front-end.