We have a junior dev on our team who uses AI a lot for their work.

I want to teach them, but I feel like I’m wasting my time because they’ll just take my notes and comments and plug them into the model.

I’m reaching the point of: if they are outsourcing the work to a 3rd party, I don’t really need them because I can guide the LLM better.

How is everyone handing these type of situations right now?

I’ve read a lot of things in this forum about software engineers being a bad fit. Or “not being very good”. Yeah I have definitely ran into bad software engineer 100%. But I don’t think a bad software engineers is nearly as detrimental to a projects as a bad manager or bad management.

Behind high profile failures in software there is probably at least always a horrible management team. Be it bad processes, toxic leadership. Yet when we talk about software failures we’re always blaming the software engineer. Chances are decisions that have been made that lead to disasters isn’t just on a bad software engineer. Chances are it was bad process that even allowed bad code to be pushed in the first place.

I’d say bad management is far more endemic to horrible software than software engineers. To some degree bad software engineering can be hidden. But mad management actually have the ability to make impactful changes in software.

I feel that we’ve created so much literature around …

I’ve been developing software professionally for 20 years. I’ve done startups, retail, small companies, large companies, the whole spread. I’ve been with the same company for about 5 years and am currently a Lead. The job pays well (Midwest salary), the benefits are insanely good, work-life balance is great, I get a dependable bonus, and love working with the team on modernizing a decades-old monolith to browser-based tech. It’s a great mix of architecture-esque planning work, interactions with business, and coding.

For years I’ve had managers trying to push me into management. I’m not wholly against this except for the fact that nearly every company I’ve worked for has turned management over every few years. Being on the delivery side at least has the illusion of stability. Since I had a kid almost 7 years ago stability has taken on elevated importance. Can’t hop around startups any more.

All that said, I just like where I’m at. I like still having a foot in the weeds and problem …

Kinda just in the title, but it’s like that’s what they are meant to be doing, but I’ve literally never really had this myself.

Is it just something we pretend to do as managers?

Hi all

So I work at a fairly large company >500 staff, i’m basically the highest technical person there outside of the CTO.

Our products are mundane but ubiquitous, most people dont know we exist and we have a lot of goodwill with our customers that I dont see future growth ever being an issue.

The issue for me is that due to the nature of our customer and not being in the fast paced flashier side of tech we tend to attract people with poor experience and skillsets, quite often I see what should be home-runs get fouled up or have to sit in meetings with people who would be unemployable at every other tech company I work at.

That being said everyone is really nice and chill, people dont seem to want to rock the boat and the pace seems a bit more relaxed, the pay is competitive but I could probably do better, work life balance + job security are also great.

So the question comes, is it really that bad ? these people frustrate the hell out of me some days and i’m …

The Readarr project is now officially dead. The GitHub repository has been archived and the following announcement was added:

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project’s metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we’re not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

There was also a post on the Readarr subreddit here announcing the same.

Such a shame, but not unexpected.

Sunday. Update #5. It’s been 30 days now since i started posting (usually on sundays) about building my own sonos alternative, based on opensource software.

Missed the beginning? I’m summarizing it here: r/beatnikAudio

The progress this week: - Made the web application repo public, i call this one beatnik-controller. Find it here: https://github.com/byrdsandbytes/beatnik-controller/ - Renamed the snapcast-pi repo to beatnik-pi (you’ll find it here now) and added architecture documentation. https://github.com/byrdsandbytes/beatnik-pi - Summarized what beatnik is. You’ll find it in picture 2 & 3. (Helps me not to get lost and communicate it) - Tried to inform myself on open source licensing, chose AGPLv3 - Tested a miniAmp on big KEF speakers (picture 1, works but a very bad idea) - Compiled iOS app as proof of concept. - Started working on detail screens for devices & streams in the controller. Screen recording here: https://www.reddit.com/r/beatnikAudio/s/AlGY5R7NuA

Do not …

Ever since switching from Android to iOS many years ago, I made the decision to only use apps I could easily migrate away from should I need/want to move away from Apple for any reason. This also extended to Google (Google Photos, Gmail etc.) as I wanted to take more ‘ownership’ over my data as best I could.

With this in mind, recently I decided to move away from Synology’s native apps which I depend on everyday such as their Photos, CardDAV and CalDAV services (Synology Photos, Synology Contacts, Synology Calendar, and Synology Drive!)… no medals for guessing why!

After consulting selfh.st/apps and looking through the options, sometimes it can be difficult to find what’s hot and exciting when replacing these more… mundane services, they just aren’t as exciting to discuss on r/selfhosted or r/homelab as almost anything else. With that in mind, what apps/services that you deem essential have you started using in place of *insert big brand …

Hey everyone! 👋 After hitting DB-corruption and sluggish-UI issues with Uptime Kuma, I rewrote the idea from scratch in Go (backend) and React/TypeScript (frontend) with better structured code allowing for easy extensibility.

Peekaping does HTTP/HTTPS & push checks, sends alerts via Email, Slack, Telegram or Webhooks, and streams live stats over WebSockets.

Repo, docs, and screenshots: https://github.com/0xfurai/peekaping

It’s my first open-source release, so any feedback, issues, or PRs are welcome. Thanks for taking a look!

Spellbreak is a wizards Battleroyale made by Proletariat but got a community version on itch io and im using the service playit.gg its completely safe and its unfortunate that games no longer want players to host their own server such as The Crew

Hey, r/usenet! It’s hard to believe, but Usenet just turned 45! It’s older than Google, Wi-Fi, or even the web itself, and Usenet is still kicking harder than a dial-up modem trying to connect. 

We’re throwing a birthday bash to celebrate our beautifully ancient beast, and you’re invited. Of course, there will be prizes and an incredible deal.

For the Curious (or Just Nostalgic): What Is Usenet?

Usenet was conceived in 1979 and launched in 1980. The original Internet community: Usenet is a global, decentralized network where users post and read messages (called “articles”) across categorized forums called newsgroups. There are no algorithms, centralized control, or ads dictating what you see; just people freely sharing ideas and information.

And yep, in 2025, Usenet is even more relevant today. Still open, secure, and private in 2025, it is faster and more useful than ever.

Who We Are

We’re Newshosting; since 1997, we’ve connected people to Usenet. Over nearly 30 …

The NZBGet v25.1 update focuses on security improvements, stability fixes, and minor feature enhancements, along with several updates for developers.

Key Highlights:

Feature: 

• Added support for extracting file size from RSS feed descriptions, providing more information upfront. #580

Bug Fixes & Security:

• Addressed OpenSSL memory leaks and updated to use the latest, more secure TLS protocol, mitigating vulnerabilities #591.
• Fixed a segfault issue with RSS feeds, improving memory safety. #569
• Corrected parsing of yEnc headers and subjects #571, #584.
• Prevented showing of negative age caused by incorrect dates in NZB file #583.
• Resolved a data race in the ExtensionManager that could cause crashes #577.
• Added additional checks for missing server configurations in the web UI #581.

For Developers:

• Upgraded par2-turbo to v1.3.0 #586.
• Added support for newer libxml2 library versions (v2.12+) #575.
• Updated OpenBSD tests workflow to 7.7 #573.
• Improved performance, safety, and …

EDIT: As u/ND_Guru_Brent has commented, NewsDemon have refunded 59 of the 60 charges in a reasonable time-frame. It does suck that I’ll have to eat a nominal foreign currency conversion fee for each of the charges, but I’ll commend the speed of their resolution to the problem.

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As the title says, 60 identical charges in 24 hours. 9 of the charges have been processed by my bank already, and support are not responding via chat.

Never experienced an issue like this before in all my years of paying for things via card, it’s a bit shocking TBH.

I saw a post from 2 months ago with a similar issue, they said they had “gremlins”. Hoping that the same representative can help sort this out ASAP.

I’m suddenly getting tls handshake and connection closed by remote host for the last 5 hrs or so. I was using a specific fast cipher, but disabled that Incase it was outdated to use the default preferred but still having issues. Restarted and updated my news download client, still the same issue. I have frugal au as main, then a few the other regional as prio1 before the bonus at prio2. They are also failing on the same.

I am using Indexers’ web sites and doing occasional manual searches for nzb’s. NOT using Hydra. I have tried using IMDB numbers (with & without the leading “tt” for media names that are not very unique - and not having any luck. I have also tried using TMDB with same lack of success.

My question: is there an uniform way to search using these databases?

I got a 7th gen i5 optiplex for like 50 bucks to replace my third gen i3, it’s doing really nice

I was one of those cavemen/people torrenting shows and completely ignorant of the *arr apps. I spent an afternoon struggling with the learning curve of [rad|son|baz]arr on Synology and continually second guessing myself on if the effort was worth it. I had to fix SO MANY shit-ily named files and directories lord glob almighty it was awful. I’m a pretty organized person usually but clearly I failed myself terribly when initially building my library. I saw the first glimpse of magic when I was able to search for a show I didn’t have and holy shit now I have it?! Forget flying cars, this is modern technology (my bar is low - a lifetime in software will do that).

But today, while I’m sitting here eating fajitas I see this on my phone:

(I can’t attach the image but just imagine) Plex - New The Bear Episode on Deck S4 E1 - Episode 1

Mind totally fucking blown. This is how it should be. I’m donating to all the *arrs tonight. Thank you Devs, I see it now. The magic. I’m jealous of all of …

Hey everyone and happy weekend!

So I’ve been quietly working on this for a while and I’m excited to finally share Cleanuparr v2.0.0 with you.

First things first - yeah, we changed the name from Cleanuperr to Cleanuparr. The old name was getting confusing and honestly, this just fits better with everything else.

Recap - What is Cleanuparr?

If you’re running Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr with qBittorrent or similar, you’ve probably dealt with the pain of downloads that just… sit there. Stalled torrents, failed imports, stuff that downloads but never gets picked up by the arrs and maybe downloads with no hardlinks.

Cleanuparr basically acts like a smart janitor for your setup. It watches your download queue and automatically removes the trash that’s not working, then tells your arrs to search for replacements. Set it up once and forget about it.

Works with:

• Arrs: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr
• Download clients: qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission

Want to try …

My brother in law contacted me TODAY about an issue with an episode in Plex he was having. The catch is I am still a Free Plex user ( and so is he). He said he still has access to Plex and can watch stuff. He said that he just figured it was such a horrible idea they rolled that change back (lol). I said No they didn’t, and as far as I know you should not be able to.

I told him to keep on trucking if its all good, and not to change any settings or anything.

I don’t really wanna stir the pot but Im going crazy trying to figure out how this is working.

Me and my wife aren’t able to freely remote stream our stuff, yet he is.

At a loss.