I have about 10-15 years of experience. I created some open source projects when I was starting out and maintained throughout the years.

The net income from this long-term endeavour is $5 from another developer for a coffee, who messaged me that I saved him many hours of work - that was like 5 years ago.

I now see that Meta, Apache and others use some of these open source projects.. and I haven’t seen a single dime. This makes me think that if I actually instead aimed to create projects that make money, it would be a much better use of my time. Especially since I never had a stable job and mainly did freelance gigs to get by.

Anyone else who regrets contributing to open source projects? Why is that? What would you have done instead?

Hey everyone,

This is a worn out topic, but I still want to bring it up once again because I keep finding it really difficult to talk about IRL with people close to me professionally without having the discussion go off-rails. I have this feeling that people have quite strong almost dogmatic views on this in either direction and it’s really throwing me off.

For some background: I’m a mid level engineer currently working at a mid-sized company. This far in my career I’ve been viewed as a quite strong engineer for my experience level.

As for the rest of you, agentic engineering has dropped like a bomb this past year. I’ve used agents extensively and put a lot of effort in trying out the latest things. I haven’t coded by hand a lot in the last 6 months.

Still, I’m struggling a lot with “scaling” this into actually producing a lot more qualitative product than before.

I feel that my best work comes when I really put in the effort to …

I am still trying to internalize the fact that I have to leave my company after 7 great years and having learned so many things.

The fact that it’s my first layoff doesn’t help either, but I think I have moved pretty fast to the acceptance stage and started preparing for the next one.

As a backend developer, I am just practicing system design, rereading Designing Data Intensive Applications, and about to practice Leetcode mediums, which seems to be pretty standard these days.

If someone is also preparing now, what are you focusing on? Maybe you have realized that certain knowledge areas or pieces of advice are underrated.

At the place I work, we have no requirements to use AI. Some people do, some people don’t, but overall the expectations are minimal.

Personally I use it as a search-engine and occasionally have it generate tests, but I still write 99% of my own code and have never used an “agent”.

On one hand I am glad to be in a shop where I’m not just pressing “enter” all day, on the other hand, I worry about falling behind in the job/skills market. Also, our laptops are fairly locked down, so I can’t start spinning up agents or running different models locally. My hands are a bit tied.

What would you do in this situation? Is anyone else in a similar one? Right now I’m just kind of coasting but something in me feels like I’m being left behind…

I’m currently a Staff/TL at a FAANG company and moving to a similar TL role elsewhere.

In my current role, I’ve built enough trust and context that setting direction and influencing decisions feels natural. My concern is how to rebuild that quickly when joining a new org with zero existing influence.

For Staff+ engineers who’ve made a similar move: what concrete things helped you ramp up and establish credibility?

Looking for specific actions—e.g. 1:1s with other TLs in week 1, picking an early technical win, spending the first month mostly listening, etc.

Also interested in common mistakes to avoid.

After years of solid service, it’s time for a change. I’ve moved to Dockhand in my home setup (mariushosting) and damn, it just feels right. Cleaner interface, smoother workflow, and that fresh energy the selfhosted world always needs. No hard feelings, guys, just evolution.

Thanks for everything, Portainer. Welcome home, Dockhand.

Anyone else already made the switch?

Hello,

I just finished setting up a portal for my family to use, and wanted to show it off.

I Just finished setting up the gaming server using moonlight-web and Wolf so everything I host is now in a container, I thought putting it all in once place makes it easy for my family. Next im going to learn some networking!

From their discord

Finally some news 👀

@everyone It’s been pretty quiet since we posted the 2025 Year in Review, but now there is some news about our arr alternative!

I’m happy to announce librrary! One app for movies and TV, from the team behind autobrr and qui.

It is NOT ready yet, but we are getting close to user testing!

Why? What’s wrong with Sonarr and Radarr?

Sonarr and Radarr work well if your needs are simple. As soon as you want both HD and 4K libraries, you need multiple instances. Then you need to keep those in sync with everything that comes with it.

It’s not uncommon for users to run 4-6 arrs to fill their needs. This means more to manage, more resources, more hits on indexers and so on.

With so much duplicated between them, it makes a lot of sense to combine movies and TV into one application.

A big thanks to everyone who posted in the feedback thread! It was super helpful! Keep it coming: Ideas discussion

What we are building

• Multiple …

For the people that are unaware or haven’t seen the news yet.

They’ve got good performance and run well, and I’ve got all my stuff running on them. The DAS is a bit old, but it still works fine.
Minipc: acemagic k1 (r7 7730u, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd)
External storage: samsung t7
Das: mediasonic probox

https://preview.redd.it/yzerxoizofqh1.png?width=1416&format=png&auto=webp&s=5db55b840cad9050ddef90facdb9d1b483b0d131

Hi, A few months ago i got into Usenet i found it fascinating i wanted to use it but most indexers are paid and i didn’t have any money so as any sane person would do i made my own indexer named Atlas

This is my biggest project yet it took me 50 days and 80+ hours of coding

Atlas is a self hosted Usenet indexer it runs entirely in the terminal. It connects to NNTP newsgroups, indexes releases, and stores the indexed data locally in a SQLite database

The idea was to keep it simple, one Python app a local db and a terminal interface instead of needing a whole stack of separate services. It also has dashboard for stats and an AI search mode that lets you describe what you’re looking for in plain English and it finds it for u

It also supports dynamic/live/backfill indexing, NZB generation, Docker, and SABnzbd integration for downloading stuff …

While I know most traffic today is binary content, I’m really curious whether there is anyone that actually just uses it as a discussion board, even today.

As the title says ninja central is opening up September 24th for 1 hour.

https://ninjacentral.co.za/register

Long time coming, but for me this is the best release so far. Anyone else tried it?

I assume this is a pointless endeavor, but hey what’s life without a little stupidity.

Trying to get old stuff. I’ve had great success, but I was wondering if there is ANY indexer that goes back further than 18 years.

Thanks.

Hey all -

We’ve all had this evening: you nudge the volume up to catch a whispered line, and three seconds later an explosion wakes the entire house.

Today we’re bringing two new audio playback options to Plex Pass subscribers — Boost Dialog and Normalize Loudness —available now with Plex Media Server 1.43.4.

Boost Dialog

Isolates the frequencies where dialog lives and brings them forward, so quiet conversations are easier to follow without turning everything else up with them.

Normalize Loudness

Keeps audio at a comfortable, consistent level and takes the edge off very loud scenes — no more reaching for the remote every time the score swells.

How do I turn them on?

There’s nothing to set up on the server — both are ready to go. During playback, bring up the on-screen controls and select Playback Settings (the gear icon), then Playback Options, and switch on whichever you’d like to use.

Note: enabling either option will cause the audio to be transcoded.

Don’t see Normalize …

Recently the 1986 Transformers movie was rereleased in theaters. A joyous occasion to be sure. Until the movie was also apparently pulled from digital streaming platforms where you could purchase it. I only ever owned the movie on physical but I keep seeing posts saying people can’t buy or in some cases even watch their already purchased digital copy.

My Plex server was built on the idea of me being tired of seeing my shows change between services every so often. Between transformers getting removed from libraries and PlayStation ending disk production, it’s now become a matter of making sure I can watch every movie or show my family owns. I took the longer approach of ripping every movie and show in my house by hand instead of pirating but at this point I feel it’s paid off after a whole year of work.

Edit 2: Before you comment “i like the new ui why don’t you like the new ui” I don’t give a flying fuck about the new ui. I couldn’t care less about how the ui looks. I don’t spend my time browsing movies endlessly, I spend my time watching content, and whats broken is subtitle payback.

Edit: I’m sorry if the strong wording in the title upsets you. I understand that if you do not need features that were removed or broken by this update, you might quite like the new app. But for me, someone who mostly only consumes .ass subtitled content from Plex, the new versions are plain and simply unusable. Not a “bit worse” not a “slightly less convinient”. Simply “doesn’t work” for me in its current state. And I’m not about to play the waiting game, in hopes they eventually fix it, just like they didn’t fix the same problems on the iOS app.

Depending on who you are, or what your media needs are, the …

I know I’m just piling on the “WTF is wrong with the new AppleTV app” group. But really? Why would I need that there? Not that anyone in my household would go into the settings, but if I lost my old cheap Lifetime pass because my kid started pushing buttons…

I maintain a Plex library for my family, and the new Common Sense Media integration creates a problem for parents.

Kids can click the age rating on a movie and drill into Common Sense Media’s detailed content descriptions of exactly what sexual content, nudity, language, violence, drug use, etc. occurs in a movie. Even completely innocent kids’ titles such as Mickey Mouse present category headings like “Sex, Romance & Nudity.”

I have a few edited movies on my Plex server. From the VidAngel and Clearplay services. But Plex still displays Common Sense Media’s descriptions of the objectionable scenes.

I’m not asking Plex to remove Common Sense Media for people who want it.

Give the Plex Home administrator an OFF switch. Allow us to hide CSM ratings and detailed content descriptions from Managed Accounts.

Parents who run their own Plex servers should be able to control what information Plex displays to their children. Thank you!