I feel an incredible privilege to have started this job before ChatGPT and others were around because I had to engineer and write code in the “traditional” way.

But with juniors coming through now, I am really worried they’re not using critical thinking skills and just offshoring it to AI. I keep seeing trivial issues cropping up in code reviews that with experience I know why it won’t work but because ChatGPT spat it out and the code does “work”, the junior isn’t able to discern what is wrong.

I had hoped it would be a process of iterative improvement but I keep saying the same thing now across many of our junior engineers. Seniors and mid levels use it as well - I am not against it in principle - but in a limited way such that these kinds of things are not coming through.

I am at the point where I wonder if juniors just shouldn’t use it at all.

My company had a huge catastrophic bug that existed in some legacy software. Talking millions at risk, bad customer relations. It flowed down to me after initial people had no idea and I solved it in less than an hour.

Now I get a company wide email of the CEO thanking the manager for “leading” the team aka telling me to fix it. My name is nowhere on it, I’m just part of the “team” for solving such a huge issue.

I’m bummed out I guess. Should I even care or is it typical to feel this thankless

As a dev, I’ve started working with some legacy codebases from the 2000s lately, and honestly, the level of optimization in those older apps is amazing. Minimal memory, tight CPU usage, and still doing the job efficiently.

Now we have insanely powerful chipsets, larger batteries, and tools that automate half the dev process-but most modern apps feel bloated and battery-hungry. Phones lasting one full day is considered “great” despite all the hardware advancements.

It feels like we’ve prioritized fast releases and flashy features over software discipline. Anyone else feel like software optimization is becoming a lost art?

Wanna hear what the senior devs think??

Just reflecting on the fact that it’s been 2 years since I’ve had a ‘normal’ interview pipeline and I haven’t interviewed anyone in over 9 months due to hiring freeze / budget cuts.

Boom times:

-Leading the strategic vision of the team to grow into new areas. Minimal regulatory oversight.

-Coaching junior devs and mid level devs to grow their skills

-Interviewing and hiring the team

-Doing discovery on new tools and tech for the team to improve our velocity

-Keeping the team happy. Team bonding events, team lunches.

Bust times:

-Strategic vision for growth is absent due to having no budget, having shrinking scope due to products being shut down / businesses divesting from business areas

-“Keeping the lights on” - firefighting and reducing root cause of incidents, automating

-Leading resiliency and risk efforts, a lot more focus on meeting legal requirements

-No interviewing or hiring, harsh performance management. Ensuring the whole …

This might not have much to do with SWE but careers in general. Hear me out: we join a new company, we figure out our coworkers and the pecking order, we spot the person that carries the team on their back, we figure out our relationships with our manager and stakeholders.

And then we do our sprints, our planning, our retros, our demos… you push features, you review PR’s … and the wheel just keeps on turning…

In the meantime - you are getting some money, you are moving on in life, slowly, but you are… you’re buying that house, you’re taking that vacation….

but then you come back… to the wheel…over and over and over again, from company to company….

Why is software so challenging to expand out? Is it the golden handcuffs? Is it the insecurity of starting your own startup? Is it the exhaustion from coding and meetings all day that you can’t find another oz of energy to pursue your own thing? Is it the …

Hello everyone,

I’m writing those lines to tell you a little story. It’s been 1 year and half that i’m on the board “r/selfhosted” and i deployed a lot of solutions at home.

Thanks to your advises, i have a lot of tools running and used by my family.

Recently, someone talk about Paperless Ngx and my girlfriend presented this for a master’s program in documentary domain.

Without this community, she would do something else so i wanna thanks this community to promote, support and propose new solutions and new tools !

See you around

Hey self-hosting pros!

I’m looking to expand my home server setup and want to hear from real users—what self-hosted apps or tools have actually made your life easier or more organized?

I’m not just talking about “cool tech demos” or stuff that runs just for fun—I mean practical, daily-use tools that solve real problems or replace cloud services. It could be anything from personal productivity, file and media management, security, smart home automation, to backups, or even family use.

Would love it if you could share:

• Name of the software
• What it does
• Why it’s useful or what it replaced for you

Bonus if it’s light on resources and easy to update/maintain!

I’m running a basic Ubuntu server with Docker and a decent amount of storage, so anything in that realm is fair game.

Thanks in advance! Looking forward to learning what’s actually worth self-hosting in 2025 🙌

https://github.com/ksjaay/lunalytics

What is Lunalytics?

There’s a lot of monitoring applications out there and I personally love using uptime-kuma. But, one of the main issues with uptime-kuma is the ability to share with my friends/colleagues. And for the services that do allow me to share with others, they either have an outdated UI from the 90s or are so expensive I can’t justify paying for it.

So I’ve decided to create my own application that’s focused on a developer first experience with support for multiple users. I’m currently working on various new features, that will allow developers/non-developers to plugin Lunalytics with 1-2 lines of code and be able to track their applications and servers easily.

Features:

- Monitor uptime for HTTP(s)/TCP
- Support for multiple users
- Fully customisable status/dashboard pages
- Role based access control
- Clean and easy to use UX/UI
- Customizable user profiles/themes/colors
- Support for notifications …

23 days ago i started posting about the progress of building my own sonos alternative, based on open sources software.

As people started to get confused and i don’t wanna summarize everything and make super long posts, here’s the post history: r/beatnikAudio.

The main progress this week was the Spotify Connect integration. I added a section in the tutorial how to add the spotify stream. 2 important remarks: A.Spotify connect only works with Spotify Premium. B. No proper metadata yet. (details here:https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1l9jlhm/update_35_spotify_open_source_sonos_alternative/)

Airplay1 & 2: MacOs/iOS I added a second Airplay stream to the tutorial. What is pretty nice, is that things like youtube, tidal and all the stuff is working using airplay. But also here: metadata is sometimes not standardized. I guess i will have to look into how snapcast handles the streams and maybe map some lost metadata, anyone experience with this?

Stream Components Added some …

The developers of the Pterodactyl project announced a few hours ago on their Discord that they found a critical security vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) that will be disclosed tomorrow.

Users must upgrade their instance to the new release v1.11.11 as soon as possible.

• CVE Advisories: CVE-2025-49132
• Changelog: v1.11.11
• How to upgrade

I didn’t see any post about it in this subreddit, so I thought I’d share this valuable information.

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EasyUsenet is operated by XS News B.V., a Netherlands-based company that’s been around since 2007. While it’s true that we (like many others) use the Abavia backbone, that doesn’t mean we share business practices or customer policies with those providers.

In short: same infrastructure ≠ same company.

We’ve always focused on keeping things simple and fair — no hidden fees, misleading “free” trials and easy cancellation directly from your account. Also: in 15+ years, we’ve never had a single debt collection case. We’re proud of that.

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Sorry if this was asked before (search didnt work for me).

I looked at the FAQ and other links, but cant find the info.

So quick question, its safe to pay with a CC or are other methods recommended?

Looking at obtaining service form Newshosting.

I haven’t really paid attention to usenet stuff for many many years, but I got an e-mail today saying Astraweb is including TweakNews and PrivadoVPN. I have no need for VPN where I live, and Astraweb with one backup provider has worked perfect for almost a decade, so is there any reason to start using TweakNews in addition to Astra? It seems weird to me, almost suspect, that they’re offering a competitive usenet access service for free in my current plan.

hi people,

i’m only a few months into the usenet world. o far i’m using paid retention and public NZB indexers, but i keep hearing that invite-only sites (like DrunkenSlug) offer much better results and retention.

i’m not asking anyone to break subreddit rules by handing out invites here.

instead, i’d really like to learn:

1. how did u earn or discover your invite?
2. what behaviours or red flags should a newcomer (like me) avoid so they don’t get instantly banned when they finally join?
3. what can I do as a newbie to contribute positively to this community?
4. are there communities or channels you’d recommend for learning more and proving myself useful?

if sharing detailed steps publicly is frowned upon, pls feel free to point me at resources or DM if that’s allowed. and if this post breaks any subreddit policies, please let me know and i’ll immediatelyremove it.

thanks for any advice you can spare.

I’ve always been a movie guy. I recall when AMC stubs A list became a thing. I’d see so many movies every single week. Fast forward to the pandemic, I kept that addiction going by buying as many movies as I could get my hands on to build my physical and digital collection via UltraViolet. I got divorced and lost my physical media.

2024, the internet is out and where I live my mobile service is non existent. Several days go by with nothing to do but watching The Office on DVD which happened to be one of the only physical media I had left. As soon as my service was restored I started googling solutions to keep my media library on my local network.

That brings me to now. I stood up a home lab running on Proxmox with several nodes and several vms for differing Docker stacks including the *arr stack and all the media I can want but I never have the time to watch it anymore. All I do is tinker and do maintenance tasks when I have the time. I work full time and I have little kids so even …

finally dived into making some collections, really work well for cartoons. not sure what to do for TV outside studios but it’s easier for me to group cartoons behind a unified network then tv. either way love this level of organization, wish I did it sooner, kinda wish collection would go across libraries as I have separate one for anime. what are some other categories you guys use for collections? and when do you use a playlist instead?

Maybe this is already documented but I thought I’d put it out there anyway. If you have features/extras/trailers for movies in your library (follow the directions here), you’re still able to watch them remotely even without a subscription. You can’t play the main movie that the features are associated with, but the features are fair game.

So theoretically you could move your entire library to the same folder as one movie, add -featurette to the end of all the file names, and can watch your movies remotely for free. Kludgy workaround, but it gets the job done

Just curious if I should be force-stopping these users.

This is the year 2025. Why are there literally no ways to sort the song/movies/whatever in a playlist other than painfully dragging them around?

It would be great if this was in plexamp, but heck, if you add it to the web interface after eleventy years, that would be a HUGE win.

Feature request smeature request… why should something soooo basic be locked behind a popularity contest of feature requests?

Context.. I use plex for music mostly. I have playlists of songs that I maintain while I learn to play them on guitar. When I add a new song, it is helpfully added to the bottom of the playlist. I sit here painfully trying to drag 5 new songs to the top of a playlist with ~100 songs (one at a time).

edit: I screencapped the experience moving a song in a playlist with 101 other tracks.