Martijn Hols

Martijn Hols (@MartijnHols@mastodon.social) 1 Post, 0 Following, 0 Followers · React Developer, entrepreneur, IT, motorcycles, games and Dutch. I mostly tweet about front-end tech.

I joined Mastodon on its main European instance; mastodon.social/@MartijnHols. Still figuring out how I'll use it and whether I'll start maining it

Moving away from US cloud services by Martijn Hols Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.

In my last article I briefly mentioned a preference for European services. To elaborate, I posted the article: martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-...

It's a bit off-topic for my blog. After the upcoming "hug of death" article, I'll circle back to front-end/React based stuff.

Definitely! And they underestimate the cost of cloud services when things start growing, while servers are just static

Next still runs a server in front via Node to handle all kinds of things such as rewrites, headers, compression and other middleware. But yes, its impact isn't that big. The article is focussed of what a standard pre-rendered, self-hosted Next.js server can handle

React makes developing it a lot easier and fun, especially to add small interactive components like the tooltip I use everywhere. NextJS builds down to prerendered pages, so its impact should be minimal

How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site really handle? by Martijn Hols How much traffic can a self-hosted Next.js site handle? I ran load tests, uncovered surprising limits, and compared pre-rendering with SSR.

New article in which I dive into how much traffic a pre-rendered Next.js site can really handle. Will it survive going viral? And how does SSR compare? martijnhols.nl/blog/how-muc...

In the next article I'll be answering the question: how much traffic can a pre-rendered site really handle? I ran some benchmarks on Next.js on my site, and made some interesting discoveries.

Migrating away from martijnhols/actions-cache by Martijn Hols A short tale about me messing around with Github Action caching, my fork, Github pipeline longevity, and why and how to migrate away from it.

New article: Migrating away from martijnhols/actions-cache. It’s my first (effectively) one-day post that’s mostly a recount of optimizations to my Github Actions pipelines martijnhols.nl/blog/migrati...

Countries need to implement local laws for the directive that are _at least as strict_. In other words, the actual law is actually stricter in some member countries. I did not look into country-specifics, but the "new developments" interpretation is erring on the side of caution.

Hi, thanks! 28 June 2025 is listed in the scope in article 2; eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... In article 32, the directive lists a transitional period until 2030; eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten.... There's also accessible.org, which has a lot on the EAA eg accessible.org/european-acc...

The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps by Martijn Hols Learn how the European Accessibility Act (EAA) impacts websites and apps, key accessibility requirements, deadlines, and tips to prepare for compliance.

Published a new article; The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps. martijnhols.nl/blog/the-eur...

Reserved my name on Bsky, but I'm still active on Twitter. Can I set up automatic reposting from Twitter? I'll probably forget to repost here otherwise.