I have 15 YOE and that day was today. I don’t need to cure cancer but I would like my work to be a tiny bit meaningful. I would like to make a thing that works or fix a problem. I no longer believe that’s possible. Greed has made everything so broken it’s impossible to do anything non shitty. Even if my part works it’s dependent on a variety of broken systems that constantly fail. The company won’t fix anything because that hurts the bottom line. I could leave but every place I’ve worked is the same.

I work at a Fortune 5 as Senior Dev and Tech Lead of my team. About 2 years ago, we had a whole “Shift left” protocol that allowed the company to eliminate Quality Engineers across the board. It felt like a lot at the time but it has been good to give the devs a more holistic view of the application.

I feel like it’s happening with Product too right now. At best, my Product Owners and Managers are scheduling meetings and calling on unprepared people to lead them - which is crazy to me. There is more reliance than ever on devs from these positions because things are technically complex - so our non-tech Product members have zero insights to provide. They don’t seem to understand or even keep track of priorities properly.. I’m ok with a bunch of organizational meetings but the amount and quality of them lately have been seriously lacking.

Guess I’m wondering if this is just a bad era at my company or something we’re seeing industry-wide since …

I have been promoted to staff level a little over a year ago, but i have been operating as such for over 2 years.

Now i find myself responsible for way too many topics, i have no-one to actually mentor or offload some of the responsibilities.

Due to various re-orgs, and multiple people leaving at the same time, i find myself basically propping up 2 KTLO products and i’m expected to also have “staff level impact” on a new one…

This is burning me out, i’m feeling like i’ve bitten more than I can chew and I don’t see a way out of it besides changing companies and re-starting somewhere else ..

What would you do?

AWS Global Infrastructure

The AWS Cloud spans 120 Availability Zones within 38 Geographic Regions, with announced plans for 10 more Availability Zones and 3 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chile, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

I thought that for companies like Amazon, Delta, Snapchat, Google and Venmo multi region setup was standard. One of the main premises of cloud services is the resilience to outage of one region or node. And yet, once us-east-1 is down, it’s all over.

Was that the fault of AWS or those who used AWS tied to one region?

Edit: from the responses I came to conclusion that I’m gonna have my own resiliency with blackjack and hookers nginx and multiple cloud providers and it probably gonna work better than AWS.

Yeah, so I work for a large insurance company. This hasn’t been rolled out to me yet but there are some large conversations/debates/arguments ongoing on Slack. Apparently sudo access is going to be removed from all dev computers, replaced with some just-in-time admin access tool where you have to “click a button”, enter your password, and a put in a “short justification.” The approval is automated, apparently.

I was outraged, of course, upon hearing about this. But the craziest part is that we have DE’s and Tech Fellows arguing in favor of the tool on Slack. In fact, the debate among senior+ engineers seems to be pretty evenly split.

The justification for implementing this still isn’t clear to me… “proactive access control” and preventing “unauthorized access before it occurs” is what I saw but that just sounds like buzzwords. Apple has native logging on our macbooks already, that the company of course has …

Love my Immich instance on a $15/month VDS. Still going strong when half the internet is down.

Github: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.11.0

This is a major change which includes a database migration within the 396 changes.

For those on :latest, remember to take backups prior to upgrades.

Let’s start with the obvious the app wasn’t open source at first, which was kinda against the whole Jellyfin spirit. 😅 I hope we can move on from that! Also, I’m not the lead dev, just a contributor. All credit for the app goes to *@hritwikjohri*, tthe one who built it all.

So here’s what happened. My friend (aka the reluctant lead developer) didn’t quite get the whole open-source thing and was a bit hesitant to release the code. After some convincing… and maybe a tiny bit of friendly abuse , he finally agreed to make it open source!

the code’s out there now! So please ignore his older comments, cut us some slack, and enjoy the app!

We’ve tried to add as many features as possible and plan to keep improving it until it supports everything Jellyfin does, except Live TV that one’s coming last 😅.

🎯 What’s the goal of this app?

The goal is to provide a clean, feature-rich UI that feels smooth and complete with good playback support. We’ve already implemented most of the …

Hi Self-Hosters,

some time ago I posted a survey (well… I posted it three times, because of a few technical problems and then switching to heysurvey).

Thank you to everyone who took part - there were more than 850 responses. It took some time to go through all the data, but now it’s time to share the results and crown the winner(s).

You can find most of the results here: https://selfhosted-survey-2025.deployn.de/

I’ve left some data out for now due to time constraints, but I might post an update later this year.

Here are the highlights:

Single Board Computers (SBCs)

1. 🥇 Raspberry Pi
2. 🥈 Orange Pi
3. 🥉 Odroid

Favorite Raspberry Pi Model

1. 🥇 Raspberry Pi 4
2. 🥈 Raspberry Pi 3
3. 🥉 Raspberry Pi 5

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

1. 🥇 Custom-built
2. 🥈 Synology
3. 🥉 QNAP

Operating Systems

For Self-Hosting

1. 🥇 Proxmox
2. 🥈 Debian
3. 🥉 Ubuntu

For Regular Use

1. 🥇 Windows
2. 🥈 Linux
3. 🥉 Android

Linux Distributions For Regular Use

1. 🥇 Ubuntu
2. 🥈 Arch
3. 🥉 Debian

Reverse Proxy

1. 🥇 Nginx Proxy …

Hi I would likr to ask what you find the most underated software to selfhost and why. And i mean the software that is not so known like jellyfin. I mean ist great but i am interestde in the projekt were you hear realy about.

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.4

New Features

• History details now includes option to mark job as Completed.
• Quota notifications available for all notification services.
  • Sends alerts at 75%, 90%, and 100% quota usage.
• Multi-Operations now supports Move to Top/Bottom.
• New outgoing_nntp_ip option to bind outgoing NNTP connections to specific IP address.

Improvements

• Setup wizard now requires successful Server Test before proceeding.
• Anime episode notation S04 - 10 now supported for Sorting and Duplicate Detection.
• Multi-Operations: Play/Resume button unselects on second click for better usability.
• Unrar now handles renaming of invalid characters on Windows filesystem.
• Switched from vendored sabnzbd.rarfile module to rarfile>=4.2.
• Warning displayed when removing all Orphaned jobs (clears Temporary Download folder).

Bug Fixes

• Active connections counter in Status window now updates correctly.
• Job setting changes during URL-grabbing no longer …