Maybe it’s just my experience, but I’ve noticed a pattern. Whenever I’ve worked with a technical architect who was completely detached from the codebase, it was always a struggle (for dev team). How can you make critical technical decisions about systems you don’t have to build or maintain? It’s like a general who’s never been to the front lines designing battle plans… Especially nowadays when you can “produce” a design document with LLM in like few hours.

Is this a common thing in the industry? (mid-size orgs 200-500 people)

I been lurking and observing posts around here for a while now, but suddenly I have seen what I would call a whiplash shift of sentiment in the last few months where the usage of AI and Agentic Coding (More specifically Agentic Coding, IE the user is just prompting and letting the AI write the code) becoming not just accepted but actively pushed, a stark contrast compared to even earlier this year where the majority conclusion was it’s not going to lead you to anywhere being productive.

Somehow I am now seeing people throwing claims of being multiples? more productive than before and that the models are really really good now? This is in contrast to studies published earlier this year where it was found developers were actually less productive but think they were more productive, an independent study by some guy that found himself not as productive with Agentic Coding, and a pre-published paper that shows models overfitting to SWE-Bench but not actually generalizing to the …

So, I have a coworker who doesn’t seem to be able to do very much on his own without asking for help, and by help, I mean asking me to do 90% of his task for him. For example, he’s working on an application that needs to connect to a postgres database right now. I just got off of a 45 minute call with him where I just explained how to install PgAdmin and run a few SQL scripts. Instead of asking me how to run scripts, he literally just asked me, “can you please just do this for me?” He’s not learning anything because he never tries anything on his own. I’m spending increasingly more time babysitting him to the point to where it’s cutting into my day. I have helped junior developers in the past but I have never had to deal with a dev who acts helpless like this.

What do you do in this situation? I’m really trying to help without being a dick to him, but it’s getting really irritating.

I’m a tech lead with a senior developer on my team who’s been with the company for a very long time. His development style is objectively below what’s expected of a senior dev - he struggles with basic tasks, constantly deviates from well defined plans, and is visibly distracted during meetings. Even with his camera on, you can see him typing and doing other things, forcing people to repeat themselves multiple times. He also takes any feedback as a personal insult. Simply put, he is very difficult to work with.

With year-end performance reviews approaching, I think he knows he won’t be getting the best review. Recently, I collected feedback from all my direct reports, and while everyone else gave extremely positive feedback and expressed how much they enjoy being on my team, this individual’s response was VERY hostile, to my surprise. He seemed to think the feedback request didn’t come from me and wrote things like I’m “the opposite of …

More or less what the title says!

Hi r/selfhosted !

I decided to do a write-up of how I setup my home server. Maybe it can help some of you out. This post walks you through my current self-hosted setup: how it runs, how I run updates and how I (try to) keep it all from catching fire.

Disclaimer: This is simply the setup that works well for me. There are many valid ways to build a homeserver, and your needs or preferences may lead you to make different choices.

Medium blog post: https://medium.com/@ingelbrechtrobin/theres-no-place-like-127-0-0-1-7a21a500a0f8

The hardware

No self-hosting setup is complete without the right hardware. After comparing a bunch of options, I knew I wanted an affordable mini PC that could run Ubuntu Server reliably. That search led me to the Beelink EQR5 MINI PC AMD Ryzen.

Beelink EQR5 MINI PC AMD Ryzen 32GB, 500GB SSD

For the routing layer, I didn’t bother replacing the hardware, my ISP’s default router does the job just fine. It gives me full control over DNS and DHCP, which is all I …

Hi folks!

I had been using BorgBackup via command line for a while to create backups of my Immich library (self-hosted photo management tool). It felt very tedious to continuously monitor, and maintain while creating a backup, scheduling or restoring, especially via SSH. I have docker containers for everything else, so I thought why don’t I put together a Web UI that makes it easier to manage.

It runs as a Docker container (no config needed) and includes:

• Backups, Restores with visual scheduling
• Live progress tracking with notifications
• Browse and manage your archives like regular folders
• Built-in SSH key manager

I am currently using it on my home setup (Odroid + Raspberry Pi) and I am pretty happy with it. Would appreciate any feedback if you give it a try. Still actively working on it, so feature requests welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/karanhudia/borg-ui

It’s that time of year where Usenet indexers and providers are running deep sales. Could be 50% off for a year with some providers and it’s not uncommon for indexers to run big discounts on lifetime access so if you’re in need, now is the time to shop subscriptions.

If you already have subs don’t forget to check your accounts too for cases where your yearly sub has or is about to renew days before a good discount is going live.

Five months before, when I first posted about this project, many pinky promised that you would use the app if I ported from Supabse to Postgres for self hosting . Hope you would do the same promise again if I create iPhone App!!!

I already created Android app when I borrowed my mom’s phone in Aug. but I couldn’t create one for iPhone as I don’t have Mac.

Many reached out to me for iPhone app and some even contributed via GitHub sponsorship. Now I have 50% of the cost and soon will be buying a Mac as Thanksgiving is nearing in USA. Just waiting for deals to finalize the purchase. Thanks to those who contributed via GitHub sponsorship.

If you haven’t already started using SparkyFitness , please give it a try.

https://github.com/CodeWithCJ/SparkyFitness

• Nutrition Tracking
  • OpenFoodFacts
  • Nutritioninx
  • Fatsecret
• Exercise/Health metrics Logging
  • Wger
  • Garmin Connect
  • Withings
  • Github Free Exercise DB
• Water Intake Monitoring
• Body Measurements
• Goal Setting
• Daily Check-Ins
• AI Nutrition …