Did anyone else catch the details on the Anthropic/Bun acquisition yesterday? They just hit $1B in run-rate with Claude Code, but they still had to go out and buy an entire runtime team (Bun) rather than just hiring standard engineers to build infrastructure.

It feels like a massive indicator of where the industry is right now. We constantly talk about “build vs. buy,” but it seems like “build” is dying because hiring competent teams takes 6-9 months.

I’m seeing this pattern with a lot of my peers, and I’m curious if it’s universal. Are you guys actually able to hire fast enough to clear your backlogs right now? Or is your roadmap effectively stalled because the “hiring lag”?

It feels like half the companies I talk to are sitting on a mountain of capital and feature requests, but they physically cannot convert that money into code because they can’t get the bodies in seats fast enough.

While the sub says 3+, this is mostly a question for the folks who’ve been at this 10-15+ years and remember “the old times.”

I don’t mean for this to be a rant or complaining post, I am genuinely curious about the historical context…but frontend engineering feels crazy these days.

I’ve been a full-stack developer for ~20 years but spend less time coding professionally these days than I’d like; and when I do, its mostly backend.

However, I genuinely make an effort to stay involved in frontend dev lest it pass me by. And while I still think I have a handle on the work. I must have missed some of the history/discussion around FE because I’m constantly asking myself why we need all this shit.

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I used to write websites with vanilla js. It was tedious and the sites were simpler, but it was fine. jQuery was an absolute godsend. It had its problems but kept getting better every version. When Angular hit the scene, I jumped on it. I …

It seems like everyone on my team is intent on turning the codebase into a Big Ball of Mud. 1M+ lines of code, 15+ years old, small team with turnover, and somewhat of a startup pace. Everyone is focused on getting their current features out the door as quick as they can with very little long-term planning. Lots of “hey, it it works” and not a lot of what I think of as actual engineering.

There are attempts made, but they fall short because we worship at the altar of speed. Attention is split and priorities change frequently, so we rarely ever polish up a domain (even a new domain) to be in anything close to an ideal form. I know perfect is the enemy of good, but what we do now can’t be good either.

It just feels like no one really cares about being a good steward of the codebase. People open PRs where the happy path or the most obvious unhappy path is broken, clearly not testing thoroughly. No diligence, because they always have to hop back over to that …

Hey folks,

I recently posted about my job title being “Automation Developer” but my role having quite a bit more scope. I figured it was affecting my chances of getting through ATS or even just recruiters skimming titles, but man, after changing it to “Software Developer (Test Automation and Tooling)” I have seen an improvement tenfold.

Thank you to everyone that told me to change it, a recruiter I talked to afterwards told me that if they had seen “Automation Developer” they would have skipped my application.

I went from an interview every couple months to a call lined up weekly.

EDIT: Woah, this post got some traction.

But basically yeah the market fucking sucks and AI-driven screening is miserable lmao

The best eng leaders I’ve had, had the keen ability to know when to be blunt, to the point and nip bullshit in the ass if necessary. They were also amazing people to get to know, so they weren’t “assholes” per se, they just knew when to be an asshole on occasion to help their team.

It was rare, but when done, very effective.

Have any of you had to be very blunt/direct while at work? If so what was it and what did you say? What was the reaction?

A year into self-hosting and somehow I ended up wanting to build a full Kubernetes setup.
Posting this as a lighthearted joke for others on the same path.
“Hi, I’m value, and I may have lost control of my homelab.”

Hey r/selfhosted!

I’ve been working on Relaticle, a modern open-source CRM built with Laravel and Filament. After years of using various SaaS CRMs and being frustrated with data ownership concerns and subscription costs, I decided to build something that can be fully self-hosted.

Why I built this

• Complete data ownership - your customer data stays on your servers
• No per-seat pricing or usage limits
• Full customization through custom fields
• Modern tech stack that’s easy to maintain

Tech Stack

• Backend: Laravel 12, PHP 8.4
• Frontend: Livewire 3, Alpine.js, TailwindCSS
• Admin Panel: Filament 4
• Database: PostgreSQL (recommended) or MySQL
• Search: Meilisearch (optional)
• Queue: Redis + Laravel Horizon

Features

• Company & Contact management with relationship linking
• Sales pipeline with custom stages
• Task management with assignments and notifications
• Notes system linked to any entity
• AI-powered record summaries
• Custom fields - add any field type to any entity …

Hey everyone!

So I built this today. I checked out some tools online like Clean Email and Unroll.me - they’re good but most are paid or collect your data. I just wanted something simple that works locally on my machine.

What it does:

• 🗑️ Bulk delete emails by sender (shows who’s spamming your inbox the most)
• 🚫 Bulk unsubscribe from newsletters
• ✅ Mark thousands of emails as read

It uses the Gmail API and runs 100% on your computer - nothing gets sent anywhere.

GitHub: https://github.com/Gururagavendra/gmail-cleaner

This probably isn’t needed by everyone, I mainly built it for myself. But putting it here in case someone finds it useful. It’s free and open source

Update:
Been working nonstop on improving this little project after all the unexpected love it got!

• Updated the README and added more filters
• Migrated the whole project to FastAPI + uv
• Added a full Docker image + compose files
• Added bulk email batch processing (way faster + safer)
• Added basic …

Hi, chief dumbass here,

I bought a new router a while ago and instead of forwarding a single port I opened an entire machine to the internet. I was hosting immich and then some web projects for testing. I had left the sever do its thing not paying attention for quite a while and then I was alerted to everything being open when I created a default user/pass/port postgres DB and saw my data instantly vanish.

I checked through my auth logs and could see many people/bots were trying to brute force their way into SSH but never succeeded because I had disabled password logins. Looked through my open connections nothing out of the ordinary, no crypto miners in top, nothing from rkhunter. Is there anything I should look for?

Should I wipe the machine completely?

I use Docker containers and a cloud server to host services mainly for my personal workflow. Here are my favorite self-hosted projects in 2025 — all of them have been extremely useful to me!

1. Blinko – A self-hosted AI-powered knowledge base and note-taking app
2. Ollama – Works perfectly with Blinko for local embedding models
3. Gitea – Where I host the source code of my Hugo blog
4. Woodpecker – My CI/CD tool paired with Gitea (e.g., automatically builds my blog)
5. wakapi – Self-hosted API for tracking my coding time
6. Plausible CE – My favorite privacy-friendly web analytics with zero bloat
7. nahpet – A simple and clean URL shortener
8. Twikoo – A self-hosted comment system I use on my Hugo blog
9. immich – The best Google Photos alternative — powerful and impressive
10. IT Tools – A collection of simple web utilities running entirely in the browser
11. bark server – Sends APNs notifications to iOS/iPadOS
12. Uptime Kuma – Monitors the uptime and health of all my sites and containers
13. Cloudreve Pro – My private …

Hello all,

I did a search and didn’t find anything conclusive, I’m wondering what your suggestions are to get coverage of all the largest backbones for the highest completion rates?

I understand that completion is highly subjective based on the groups and posts/post typs themselves, but I am wondering what the reddit hive mind opinion is..

Using whatsmyuse.net I came up with a shortlist of

• Frugal Usenet (NetNews + Usenet.farm)
• Eweka (arguably the best option for Omicron)
• UsenetExpress (UsenetExpress) - Or possibly UsenetPrime to also get Abavia?

I currently have Frugal, Eweka, and UsenetExpress and get good completion but am always looking for that extra edge for postings to some niche groups.

I am working on trying to create a new indexer i have tried to do as best as i can using the scripts available on GitHub as reference i have managed to make a site and indexer using Node.js using the tailwind CSS framework to keep it clean and mobile friendly as possible

Currently everything is working perfect from registrations to invoicing i have created a system that support multiple Usenet servers in the backend with distributed load balancing between them when scanning.

it is currently scanning and picking up complete Binaries but my problem starts when it comes to trying to gather all the information needed to extract proper names especially from obfuscated posts

i plan on using TMDB for movie and TV show information i have a paid developer API from them, i use in other projects i also have an API for the game database to grab game information from them for my metadata, but this is unless if i can’t get it to parse the data properly in order to extract the needed …

But I keep subbing to indexers because of the BF deals. I don’t need any more, now up to 5 with 3 being lifetime and 2 others good for at least 2 years. Just added Ninja because all of you raving how good it is + the 2 year BF deal. Also added AltHub for same reasons last week. I need a 12 step program for usenet stuff I think.

Looks like half the mods got dropped, the the transparency log is gone.

All during Black Friday. Kinda… strange.

Noob here. Got myself all setup during Black Friday sales. I have 2.5 Gbps “unlimited” internet. I’ve had this account for six years at that speed and never had a major problem. While learning the ropes of usenet, I managed to hit my “fair use” data limit of 4 TB and they knocked me down to 10 Mbps for the remaining two weeks in this billing cycle. Moral of the story: Check the fine print of your ISP contract and know their fair use policy. Now I have to figure out how to limit usenet usage to 2TB/month so I leave enough bandwidth for everything else in our household.

Thank you to everyone at Plex for de-suckifying the Roku UX! Love, love, love that I can navigate to my playlists in 3 clicks without having to wait for pages to load.

If anyone ever suggests side-scolling menus again during brainstorming sessions, please have them do an AMA for honest - and likely profanity filled - feedback before that idea even makes it to an alpha release. 🤘

Just wanted to share my little proud moment today! Just started hosting my own plex Server from last September and this is the first time I’ve had 5 ppl watching at the same time and I don’t know why, but it has me all excited 😆

Trying to start my own server for plex. But I see many people with servers with 10,000+ movies. How can u possibly hold that much content and not break the bank. How is it any better than Netflix, etc?

Edit: I never expected this to blow up like it did. I love the content you guys have given, I’ve debated on making a plex server for awhile and all the clarification is amazing.

Hi all,

Sorry for these basic questions.

I live in Switzerland where downloading trrnts is legal (seeding however, is illegal, yet hardly enforced afaik).

I am sick of having multiple streaming subscriptions.

However, I don’t love having to connect my laptop via HDMI to the tv, and the casting option on VLC player is not as stable as I would like it to be.

Do I understand correctly, that Plex would allow me to basically add all my trrented files into Plex, so I can simply open Plex on my TV and stream all the files without connecting my PC via HDMI?

Thank you in advance for your answers and apologies for these basic questions.