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The Bootstrapping Byte #4 - Let's Get Ready to Rumble

This week in The Bootstrapping Byte: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk jumping on the ring. A guide for structuring your next project with the last version Next JS and a quick story about the made in Switzerland.

Nico Bresson

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The Bootstrapping Byte #4 - Let's Get Ready to Rumble
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This week in The Bootstrapping Byte: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk jumping on the ring. A guide for structuring your next project with the last version Next JS and a quick story about the made in Switzerland.

🥋 Mark vs. Elon offering us the fight of the year

The Twitter community has been bubbling this week: after recently making it's API outrageously expensive for third parties, Elon Musk announced a rate limit on the platform. In the meantime Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Threads, yet another copycat except that in these very case, the new MEta app got 30M users on it's first day. Expect a thrilling fight between the two tech magnate, both on the MMA arena and on the internet 🍿

Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz

TL;DR:

  • Twitter recently throttled usage, limiting users to a few hundred tweet impressions per day, possibly due to infrastructure issues and an expired contract with Google Cloud (non official version).
  • Twitter's said that it was attempt to detect and eliminate bots and other harmful actors on the platform (official version).
  • Instagram Threads, a rival to Twitter, launched without any throttling, successfully onboarding 30 million new users in less than a day.
  • Threads was able to handle this massive influx of users (many of them coming from Twitter to tryout the new platform and secure audience).
  • Threads is not yet available in the EU, likely due to GDPR compliance issues.

For those who prefer a video version of the Twitter's story 👇

🏗️ An intro to the new App Router in Next.js 13 (for devs)

Vercel released Next 13 a few month ago with an new App Router allowing greater flexibility in your projects. As it's usage is progressively taking off, here is a quick guide on implementing a feature-drive structure:

How to Structure Your Next.js App With the New App Router
Learn how to organize your Next.js project using a feature-driven structure with the new App Router, allowing for greater flexibility and…
Better ProgrammingAlen Ajam

TL; DR:

  • The new App Router in Next.js 13.4 allows for a more flexible project structure, enabling developers to organize pages and related files in a single "app" folder, a concept known as colocation.
  • The article recom mends a feature-driven approach to structuring a Next.js project, where a feature is a group of related files representing a specific area or topic of the project, improving maintainability and code navigation.
  • The App Router also supports structuring routes and organizing common files, allowing developers to group project elements based on logical reasoning rather than mechanically categorizing every file.

☁️ Running On Clouds up to the IPO

The whole Center Court celebrated Roger Federer for his first appearance in Wimbledon after his retirement. While beating all records as a player, he also invested in several businesses among which On - the Swiss sportswear company - which went public in 2021.

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