I recently switched to a new laptop. When I was setting it up, I didn’t bother to enable Github Copilot. not for any real reason, I just wanted to start work on something and didnt bother.

I actually thought it was speeding things up quite a bit. But to my surprise, I found I wasn’t going any slower with it off. Like, writing boilerplate takes slightly longer, but it is ultimately pretty minimal. I think having intellisense work properly is what helps, and I dont need to troubleshoot any weird ai generated bugs, which i find are different from the kinds of mistakes I tend to make.

overall I was really surprised that copilot wasnt making more of a difference. I still use Gemini for rubber ducking and writing tests sometimes, but the auto complete idk if I will bother with anymore.

I’m a senior level engineer that does a lot of architecture work. But I’m not going to lie I’m driven by engineering challenges not delivery challenge.

I’ve been in ExperiencedDev for years. And the thing I’ve taken away is that good and grown up engineers align with business. They remove friction to that impedes delivery. And they don’t pontificate in code quality.

I have come to realize I’m just not a mature engineer. I think delegating all my work to AI is insanely boring. I know how to create AI workflows but it’s not the same as performance engineering, fighting a GC, or saving allocations through code design.

I have realize I don’t care about output. I just care about challenge . That is what motivates me. If I’m being honest I don’t care about delivery. I only care because if I don’t deliver I can’t keep my job

But I really just like building cool shit. And AI robs me of that satisfaction. And yes I do know “how to use AI”. I know good AI usage guidelines as well. I …

Maybe 5 years ago, a company I’ll just say I know about decided to go full monorepo with Bazel. Forced devs across the org to migrate into the monorepo. It’s hard to do that right and this was an example of doing it wrong: lots of negative feedback, anti patterns galore, engineers on all sides stubbing their toes on the furniture.

Maybe 3 years ago, a new cto comes in and looks at the situation. Hires a whole bunch of people where he used to work. They all say it’s time to scrap the monorepo, and build a whole bunch of in house tooling for ci/cd/infra/whatever else you can think of. Forces engineers to migrate out of the monorepo. Everyone gets their own aws account. Lock everything down to least privilege. Turn off the old tooling so that you either use the in house built stuff or you can’t deliver.

Cto gets axed awhile back, a lot of the folks he hired to run things bail shortly thereafter. New leadership comes in, sees that engineers using the tooling think …

Hi all. Apologies if this is a bit of a woe-is-me moan, but I think I just wanna explain where I am, see if anyone else had felt similar in the past, and just get some advice on how I can get by head back in the game.

I’m a Senior Software Developer and I’ve just hit 10 YOE. I started out as a Junior in a team of 4 at a start-up, and learned loads. A couple of years later we were acquired and the whole team moved over and I’ve remained on the same product ever since, rising through Mid-level to Senior.

Initially it was the same - building features, learning new stuff - and I still loved it. Gradually though the work changed and the dynamic got more and more corporate, and despite becoming more senior I felt like I was having less and less impact. I made some applications for new jobs in early 2020 when I was mid-level and still had some motivation, but a couple of terrible interviews rocked by confidence and then the pandemic hit, so I thought it was best to stay …

I’ve been in the industry a few years now and I’m confident in my actual work shipping features like debugging communicating with teams all that but every interview I’ve had recently feels like it’s leveled up in difficulty way faster than my role has.
Questions that used to be straightforward are now wrapped in extra layers of “what if X fails at scale” or “design it assuming millions of events per minute” even when the job itself clearly isn’t that level.
I know interviews aren’t supposed to mirror day to day work perfectly but I’m walking out of these calls feeling like I’m interviewing for a different job entirely.
For those of you who’ve been around longer does this eventually balance out or are interviews just on a permanent upward curve while the actual job stays relatively consistent?

Thought I should post this here since a lot of us make use of CF Proxy and Zero Trust.

Source: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

https://github.com/mustbeperfect/definitive-opensource

Hey everyone!

I posted here about a year ago and the reception was great. I’m posting again since a lot has changed - for the better!

Since then the number of listed projects has increased from around 300 to over 700. The biggest change is that the list is no longer edited directly from the README, instead, all projects are in an applications.json file. With GitHub actions, stats (like description and stars) are updated every night with another nightly action generating the README. This saved a bunch of time and minimized errors that came with editing a massive markdown file manually, and also allowed for a very popular request: separate READMEs to be generated for specific platforms like macos, windows, linux, and selfhosted. 

However, as the list scaled, I found more and more errors like duplicate projects and forgetting to fill out attributes in the json slipping through. Abandoned/archived projects were also going …

More than 2 years have passed since I last updated you on the progress of Tandoor. Today I am happy to share some great developments with you and answer all your questions.

After more than 1.5 years of work Tandoor 2 was finally released on the 31.07.2025. While you can read all about it in the changelog I want to highlight some aspects.

If you don’t want to read and just see what’s new, take a look at the gallery.

New Single Page Frontend

While Tandoor 1 already used Vue 2 for most of its pages Tandoor 2 is now a modern single page application based on Vue 3 with Vuetify 3 providing elegant and efficient UI components.

Not only does this make Tandoor 2 a whole lot faster than the old version, but it also resolves lots of the small little quirks and rough edges that, at times, created a frustrating experience.

https://preview.redd.it/bunydpr21m2g1.png?width=2307&format=png&auto=webp&s=651530e6cc0afd6abc13f2df066170b6f894d3f8

I have also spent a great deal …

Today was the big Cloudflare interruption. Just 2 weeks after i “finished” the nginx/letsencrypt/dns part of my homelab.

As we all, i cant stop talking to other IT Guys what we doing with our selfhosted Servers. Now in the chat i told my friend. “see! all self hosted. i don’t depend on any big company ;)” as a joke. Then he replied “Digital prepper”

That made me think. Is that the same? should i be offended by him or should i feel honored?

What do you think?

PS:
As there is no “Discussion” flair here i thought “Self Help” would be most appropriate :D

I need to find more services to run…

Here is the Black Friday Usenet Deals for 2025:

If you have a deal that is not listed here send us modmail

Provider Deals

It looks like Cloudflare are having a few issues there end, baring in mind a lot of services here use them, so a lot of them will be down (Including Us), so don’t panic, all will be back up when Cloudflare sort the problem

Update: Issue seems to be regional, so depending on what local Cloudflare server you are routed through depends weather you will see a issue

There has to be an explanation for this. I searched the internet, checked old Usenet charters, and even looked through books from the 1990s, but I still couldn’t find anything about the origin of these group names. Does anyone know the story behind alt.binaries.boneless and alt.binaries.bloaf?

Edit: Of course, at some point someone typed control newgroup alt.binaries.boneless on their computer to create the group. I’m just asking whether anyone knows what that person had in mind when choosing that name.

I bought Ewekas black friday offer that states “Free Unlimited Easynews Account”.

It seems this offer is only valid for easynews web interface and one cannot use a client with this provider. I wish this was clearly stated in the offer.

This was told to me by easynews support after problems with authentication outside of the web interface.

EDIT: Got this as a response from easynews

“Thank you for contacting us.

Please note that Easynews Add-On Access allows you to access your content through our web-based search interfaces only.

It cannot be used with newsreader clients”

EDIT: Statement from Eweka

“Sorry for the confusion this has caused. So, after looking into this, here is an explanation.

Our Black Friday offer was intended to include only the Easynews Web Search tool with unlimited access. The deal is not supposed to be able to access the Easynews NNTP server.

However, since Usenet users are more intelligent than most, many of you took your …

Newshosting, unable to contact support. Google captcha is giving me green tick but after submitting ticket, it’s not getting submitted but rather page refreshes.

I’ve been working on this project for a while and thought I’d share it here:

Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage. It handles scheduling, metadata, thumbnails, and media-server-friendly naming so your library slots cleanly into Plex/Jellyfin/Emby or just sits as a well-organized local archive, independent of YouTube.

You can find it here on Github.

This is a one-developer hobby project, but I think it’s gotten good enough that other people might find it useful. I welcome any feedback anyone has and try to address reported bugs as quickly as possible. I also welcome feature requests, but please check my open issues on Github before you submit a request.

Hopefully some of you might find this useful or interesting

Edit #1: I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the feedback!
I have some issues to address, …

Lifetime Plex Pass holder, and up until now, also an enjoyer of their live TV feature. Last night was the last straw for me…

…my wife and I have started getting into old episodes of Bob Ross’ ‘The Joy of Painting’…it had been a month or two since we last watched, but holy hell the advertisements.

Had a genuine 4 minutes of ads in between clips of the show…followed by a bizarre 60+ second advertisement for the show itself…which we were already watching!

But the real kicker is that while the show was playing, ‘Huggies’ ads started appearing on the bottom and side of the screen. That is, the window that the show was playing in shrunk by about 20%, and new ad bars appeared on the sides. It took a bit of finaggling to get them to disappear, but they kept coming back.

I’m disgusted at how bad this has all gotten. I immediately turned off the show and began torrenting all 31 seasons…so long as Plex doesn’t …

We’re now approaching the end of the year. When this year started, we were greeted with a price increase from the team behind Plex. While price increases are never welcome, I was optimistic when they started their blog-post with, “You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year”.

That made me believe they would finally implement some of the highly requested features based on years of user feedback. However, I feel that hasn’t been the case, and (unless i missed something) we haven’t seen any meaningful or positive changes to the platform.

Do you guys think we will hear something this year or in the near future?
If something is in the works, I would love to see a roadmap or something similar.

btw. does anyone know if (or how) you can change actor images?

First of all definitely not trying to mislead anyone!

I came across this on CNET earlier today. They’re claiming that Plex Pass will get a big Black Friday discount this year (40%! all tiers) Lifetime going down to $150, Annual to $42, and Monthly to $4.19 for the first month.

1. Has anyone heard anything about this?
2. Does this look legit, or is it just outdated info being recycled now!?