Next.js is infuriating (News)

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Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem.

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1. What up, Waterboy nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Next.js is infuriating (00:00:46)

https://blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2z?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Open source is one person (00:01:43)

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Why "Copy as cURL" is so useful (00:03:05)

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2025/08/copy-as-curl/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Zed (00:04:01)

https://zed.dev/blog/bring-your-own-agent-to-zed?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Bear is now source-available (00:05:00)

https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/?utm_source=changelog-news

7. The hidden costs of dependency bloat (00:06:23)

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-09-02-the-hidden-costs-of-dependency-bloat-in-software-development/view?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:20)

https://changelog.news