So I’ve been doing devops consulting for about 8 years now and thought I’d seen every flavor of corporate dysfunction. Apparently not.

Got hired three weeks ago by a big telecom’s experimental division to do cost reduction. Pretty standard stuff, they’re at about $375k/year AWS spend (tiny), the usual culprits.. overprovisioned resources, zero monitoring, accounts all over the place. The kind of mess where you can save six figures just by turning on basic observability and rightsizing the obvious stuff.

Save you the boring details, I learned I’m not actually here to save money.

I’m here so they can say they brought in an external consultant, get my recommendations in writing, and then point to all the “risks” when nothing changes. The FinOps team can’t implement this stuff themselves (or they would’ve already), but they also can’t let some external guy come in and just solve it. Good old turf war.

I kinda annoyingly …

Now that I’m more senior, I just find myself stressed all the time. Big projects are entrusted on me and I’m meant to own them - maybe not do everything, but I have to own them and deliver on time and communicate and plan and code. I get into cycles of avoidance and anxiety that causes a crash-and-burn at some point. There are many skills involved that I’m working on, but ultimately it comes down to personality. More and more strength of personality or resilience is demanded from me, especially as the market gets more brutal and I just don’t have it.. you need to be able to look at a crashing project and long odds and say I’m going to do it anyways, but I fold.

Have you all faced things like this? How do you build up those personality traits of resilience or stress tolerance, coping with anxiety etc.?

I’ve worked with a certain engineer for multiple years, and every single day I’m shocked by how good he is.

I’ve never seen him stumped. He solves things in days instead of months. It breaks my brain. I’ve never seen anything like it in my career. Some of it has rubbed off on me, but the gap is still about as large as the pacific ocean. How much could Michael Jordan’s skill rub off on your local LA fitness ball player?

It extends beyond that though. I’m very certain that there’s no skill or talent on earth I could ever be good at on the level that he is at engineering.

It’s not jealousy, because I know the insane amount of work and discipline he put in and still puts into his craft. When I meet truly exceptional people I’m in awe of them. But it’s pretty saddening to be reminded every day that you aren’t all that good at the thing you put your heart into.

That’s not me giving up. I try to improve every single …

Hey everyone.

This is my first post on this subreddit and my first time being a tech lead. So please, bear with me.

Around 3 months ago, I got promoted to a tech lead position on a new team. We had some tight deadlines that required my own contribution, and I spent almost most of my time coding. Yet we didn’t meet the deadlines.

I have a mid-level frontend engineer who’s earning above average for similar experience and skills. We have a hybrid working model(2 days remote weekly). The main reason we didn’t match the deadlines was this guy. Many of his tasks were late, and some of them were buggy, which needed extra work to get totally DONE.

At first, I thought he was underestimating his tasks or that he couldn’t work under pressure. So I set a 1:1 with him and told him my concerns about deadlines and his underestimation, and becoming unreliable for critical tasks. All in good tone and constructive feedback. He agreed with my points and promised to work on …

Sometimes its obvious like people who yell, stack ranking, and thorwing you under a bus.

But I think there are others that are important as well, like not feeling appreciated, mistakes/nitpicks outshine what you accomplished.. In your experience, what were the signs?

Hey r/selfhosted!

I have 2TB+ of personal video footage accumulated over the years (mostly outdoor GoPro footage). Finding specific moments was nearly impossible – imagine trying to search through thousands of videos for “that scene where “@ilias’ was riding a bike and laughing.”

I tried Google’s Video Intelligence API. It worked perfectly… until I got the bill: about $450+ for just a few videos. Scaling to my entire library would cost $1,500+, plus I’d have to upload all my raw personal footage to their cloud. and here’s the bill

https://preview.redd.it/lzejfn9i3gxf1.png?width=607&format=png&auto=webp&s=30420ba1b4402f8bf791347165d2ac973d5fb39a

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Hi, I’m currently developing an alternative to Sonarr/Radarr/Jellyseer that I called MediaManager.

Why you might want to use MediaManager:

• OAuth/OIDC support for authentication
• movie AND tv show management
• multiple qualities of the same Show/Movie (i.e. you can have a 720p and a 4K version)
• you can on a per show/per movie basis select if you want the metadata from TMDB or TVDB
• Built-in media requests (kinda like Jellyserr)
• support for torrents containing multiple seasons of a tv show
• Support for multiple users
• config file support (.toml)
• merging of Frontend and Backend container (no more CORS issues!)
• addition of Scoring Rules, they kinda mimic the functionality of Quality/Release/Custom format profiles
• addition of media libraries, i.e. multiple library sources not just /data/tv and /data/movies
• addition of Usenet/Sabnzbd support
• addition of Transmission support

Since I last posted here, the following improvements have been made:

• massively reduced loading times
• more …

Side note: What’s the law or phrase for when something is super popular but there’s always a percentage of people who’ve never heard of it?

I remember seeing a cartoon about 20 years ago that explained this perfectly, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name. I’ve searched everywhere and can’t find it, which is ironically fitting.

It has taken me months but I’ve been quietly working on some features you all have been asking for and I’m excited to finally show them off.

For anyone new here - WeddingShare is a simple way to collect and share photos from your wedding. Guests scan a QR code to view and upload pics on a gallery. No third-party apps required, just host it and you and your guests are good to go.

What’s in this release:

• User accounts are finally here! Users can now register personal accounts to host their own galleries.
• Registered users can now like other users photos to show their love.
• Tweaks have been made to the image popups so it should now feel smoother.
• Mobile navbar got a facelift and you can now scroll through all tabs on the Account panel.
• Improvements to the backend permissions for some exciting upcoming features.
• The usual bug fixes and style improvements.

Getting started is easy:

• Spin it up locally with the provided docker compose scripts.
• Or choose one of the …

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/24/ios-26-1-third-party-photos-backup-background/

In iOS 26.1 and later, PhotoKit provides a new Background Resource Upload extension type that enables photo apps to provide seamless cloud backup experiences. The system manages uploads on your app’s behalf, and processes them in the background even when people switch to other apps or lock their devices. The system calls your extension when it’s time to process uploads, and it automatically handles network connectivity, power management, and timing to provide reliable processing.

That means no more hacks required to upload all photos you take to Immich for example (Once Immich implements this new API).

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How does Dognzb compare to DS, Ninja, Geek and Planet, any better for retention and choice?

My dad has some older ( late 90’s, early 2000’s) girls gone wild dvd’s he would like to rip and keep in a collection on my server for easy access. Will plex allow/ detect these titles and run the metadata for them? Serious answers are preferred, but I welcome any and all jokes…

I haven’t posted it and figured it was time even though it’s not quite in its final form.

While I haven’t migrated it to a Linux build yet, I have the server running on a NUC12 Pro (not pictured) in a Windows (yuck) environment.

Since I already bought into the UniFi networking ecosystem, I ended up adding two UNAS-Pros for main and back up for the Plex media and a USP-2U to shut them down gracefully in case of a power outage.

The main NAS is in a RAID5 with 7x28TB drives. I have yet to fill up the backup NAS (I know that’s a lot of data loss if I don’t get it filled and backed up soon).

Naturally, I have all the Arrs running to maintain the libraries.

Roast me as you may.

Sorry, I read this and the irony was palpable so I had to get it out of my system. It’s still available for the desktop client but as they only mentioned that it’ll be remain available in the web app (for now) they could sunset it there at any time as well.

What’s your backup plan?

The previous interface was intuitive, easy to navigate, no one needed training to use it. The new interface is fucking terrible. I now have to train people how to use it and they still don’t get it right. This is not their fault. This is the fault of Plex development. We have been using Plex for over 10 years as a life time pass user. I would even be willing to pay monthly to Plex for updates with how good it has been. Not now.

Who ever greenlit this interface has never worked with the average computer/TV user. Nothing about the new interface is obvious. Nothing is easy to figure out. This is the exact opposite of what a UI should be on a TV across the room

The new UI is overly simplified, why, I can’t figure out. It is overly simplified to the point that it is stupid to use because nothing is obvious with it compared to the previous UI.

I hope plex employees see this, because this makes me want to migrate to other platforms.

/end rant