yes, it takes more work to write reasonably scoped tickets for a junior and then review their code than it does to just write it yourself or slopmaxx it with claude.

that has inherent value, though. having impressionable juniors around forces your team to keep their shit together, keep standards high, keep the DX and documentation good.

richard feynman, in addition to being a samba percussionist, lockpicker, and nobel-prize-winning physicist, had a lot to say about education and his technique for learning things was to teach them to someone else using simple language. having to mentor juniors has forced me to grow more than anything else i’ve done at my job.

orgs which get rid of co-ops/juniors are quietly* harming themselves in a way that can’t be immediately measured, but which has long-term negative consequences.

agree, disagree, any interesting experiences mentoring a junior where you learned something from it?

^(*yes, ai has turned my brain to slime, thank you for …

I’ve been making software for over 10 years and I am genuinely curious what goes on with companies that make printers. It struck me, after pulling my hair out trying to print a 2 page paper form, that I’ve been struggling with printers for decades at this point.

Is there some insane culture at companies that make printers that makes the software and/or drivers terrible? Do they not test? Do they hire their managers under bridges? Are they drunk all the time?

For a while I thought it had to be some connectivity issue. Some bad connection problem that would be resolved with a solid Ethernet connection. When that didn’t work I bought a USB printer and that also didn’t solve it. I’ve tried different brands. Then I thought it had to be the Windows print queue just being useless. I then got a Mac and the same crap happens on Mac as it does on Windows.

After years of fiddling, clearing queues, reinstalling drivers, plugging and unplugging, restarting, finding …

I used to be able to see to fully visualize the solutions I wrote manually in my mind and navigate these solutions line by line, having a strong mental model of how things connect, what lives where, what are the alternatives etc.

But then I took a LLM to the brain… Anybody else seeing people’s mental models degrade gradually over time? In some cases - a significant degradation? Also - people over-relying on tools, offloading their thinking to the pattern of “just 1 more question…” and coming up with solid stuff themselves less and less often?

Here’s a sensational hypothesis - perhaps we’re gradually approaching the death of our brains when it comes to creative and complicated tasks?

IMHO, complexity is a relative thing - if your brain gets accustomed to solving complex problems by going through them methodically and slowly, then you’re capable of solving hard problems more often, with better judgement and confidence. But if you …

What’s the best advice or feedback you’ve received from a manager, senior developer, or colleague that changed the way you think or work?

I’d love to hear the advice and how it impacted you.

Okay, this might be a ridiculous question, but my current job is the first time I’ve ever really had to be on call, with a chance for calls that need immediate action in the middle of the night. It’s typically been fine and I haven’t even gotten that many alerts to respond to. However, last night, while on call, I unthinkingly had a couple glasses of wine before getting an 11PM page and having to go fix something. Now, this wasn’t a problem, I could resolve the problem just fine, but my immediate reaction was shit, that’s unprofessional. It didn’t occur to me that drinking on call was like drinking on the job until I got the actual page. Are there any other common behaviours that you guys think can/should be avoided when on call that are easy enough to forget is fine on your time, but not when you might have work to do?

I recently moved in with my girlfriend and we were trying to find solutions for the computers and hard drives I want to have attached to the modem.

We found this Ikea Gillersberg coffee table/shelf hybrid for 35€ and it was a perfect solution!

Wealthfolio is an open source, local-first finance tracker I’ve been building for a couple of years (~8k stars now). It started as an investment tracker, but as of this release it covers the whole picture: investments, net worth, spending, goals, and FIRE / retirement simulations (when can I stop working, what happens if I change my savings rate).

New in 3.6, with self-hosters specifically in mind:
• SSO / OIDC authentication — one of the most requested features here, so you can bring your own identity provider instead of a separate login
• Multilingual support, short positions, tax recording, and rebalancing

Self-hosting is first-class: Dockerfile and compose.yml in the repo, plus Proxmox and Unraid guides. There are also desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux if you prefer. Either way, everything lives in a local SQLite database, no account required, and your financial data never touches our servers.

The app is free and open source (AGPL). The one optional paid add-on is …

Can’t we just ban them via a (more detailed) low-effort rule?

I don’t mean experienced and skilled developers using AI to assist in their projects. I am talking about reoccurring posts almost always in this scheme:

- Tagged as non AI “oh i thought it was about the post not the project”. (No, you lied.)

- “I sketched/architected/hand-designed the structure myself and only used AI to help me write code.” (You did shit.)

- “The post was written by myself to describe my project.” (It clearly wasn’t. Everyone knows this.)

Some of the time these projects are closed source too, looking for some free testers and/or aren’t in any other means providing any value to this community.

It isn’t about just scrolling past them. It’s about dishonest people flooding this sub trying to take advantage of the people in here.

Hey All,

I can’t believe it’s already been a year since this project started! When I created SparkyFitness, I never expected it to grow into a full-time passion project. Huge thanks to this community for giving me the opportunity to build a tool that helps you and your families stay healthy.

We just crossed 4.5k+ users and have 73 amazing developers contributing to the project. We are scaling faster than ever and even gained over 1,000 GitHub stars in just the last month alone!

We’re evolving way past legacy calorie and exercise tracking. Recently, we’ve added several major features:

• Period cycle and pregnancy tracking
• Comprehensive medication management
• GLP-1 medication tracking

If you haven’t tried SparkyFitness yet, I’d love for you to give it a spin and let us know what you think.

The main reason for this post is to get your input on our upcoming Workout & Exercise module for our mobile app. The third screenshot attached shows what we have …

Hello everyone, my name is Harvey - I’m a backend software engineer from the UK. Some of you might remember a project I shared here a while back called Musicseerr. An unbelievable amount has happened since then, and development has continued steadily. V2 is now here. Rebranded: DroppedNeedle.

It started as a way to bridge slskd and Lidarr - search for music and request it straight to Lidarr, a bit like the Seerr/*arr flow. The further I got, the more I kept hitting the limits of leaning on Lidarr for the library side - so I replaced it. DroppedNeedle now scans, tags, fingerprints, and organises your library itself, and finds and downloads music on its own. Lidarr is gone entirely, which (along with the rename) is why it’s jumping to v2.0.0.

Point it at your own Soulseek (via slskd) and/or Usenet (via SABnzbd, with built-in Newznab indexers) and it searches, downloads, verifies, and imports - whole albums or single tracks.

It currently supports:

• Native library engine - …

Now called https://treasure-maps.com/

same login and password

I just discovered that signing up works just fine. You don’t need to enter an invite code, even though the field is always active. Have fun 😊.

I just saw that Treasure Maps (formerly SceneNZBs) is celebrating its 4th birthday and is running a birthday promo until July, 12th 2026, 10 p.m. CEST.

180 extra days for the yearly subscription.

You can find the URL for this Usenet indexer in the Wiki (registration is open):
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/

I just wanted to let you know.

Got the e-mail this morning. The block doesn’t expire.

https://newsgroupdirect.com/member/billing/?plan=40d0&deal=2xrjEW1PSi4qnkxE

so i decided to dip my toes into usenet to see kind of whats going on over here. so for the downloader i’m using sabnzbd. its simple. straight forward. no big deal. for the indexer i’m using nzbplanet. not sure if there are better ones or whatever, but thats where i’m starting, and for the provider i set up frugal for a one month use to get a hang of how things work.

i tested a few downloads, tweaked some settings, and things are humming along, but then i’ll go to download something and it will fail. it will say multiple articles missing, and then just dumps out. are these things just lost to time? or are there alternate ways to find the missing pieces? i think thats where i’m needing help in understanding because i’m used to using p2p, but then you are at the mercy of if someone is online or not. and i’ve used websites that interface with cloud download lockers, but with those you nearly have to maintain a rapidgator premium sub to download …

I know they “dropped support” once it stops working it stops working, I know regardless of support from people they’re ignoring it, but another to the pile.

Small thing- But rewatching Cyberpunk Anime S01 with my Dad, whom prefers dub, I prefer sub.

It syncs video, but lets the individual users choice audio type and if subtitles or not seperately, its a small thing, but damn is that ever fantastic.

Consider this a acknowledgment of the dev(s) that designed this and thank you for even thinking about the smallest of details like that, even if it never comes out on the new crap app version, thank you for it existing to begin with, but also COME ON PLEASE KEEP IT AND BRING IT BACK TO THE OTHER DEVICES YOU KILLED IT FOR!!

The most I’ve had simultaneously is 5 (probably more but I was probably not awake) but I’m quite thrilled to see such a number tuning at the same time tonight! I feel like Netflix, haha

Hi,

Just curious how are you handling running out of space in 2026? I probably have about 16 - 24 TB of space left on my server (total space for all media is about 193 TB). I really don’t want to delete any content. Are you just sucking it up and purchasing new drives? If not, are you deleting media, and how are you determining which media to delete? I’m deciding on which way I want to go? Most of my movies are blu-ray remuxes, and tv/anime are 1080p. About 98% of my music is lossless (Flac/Hi-res). I have a few people that watch stuff and request stuff to be added. Unfortunately, I don’t see the storage prices coming down anytime soon, and honestly I don’t think they ever will go back to what we used to call normal. Even refurb/used drive prices are crazy high.

Edit:

In case anyone was wondering this is my current server. It’s old hardware but it works:

Dell PowerEdge T430

Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz (2 processors)

128 GB ECC RAM - I’ve …

Source: Plex Forum
Category: Announcements
Posted by: PlexInfo — July 9, 2026

Today we’re opening up Editions for TV Shows to Plex Pass subscribers.

If you’ve ever had both a dubbed and original-language version of an anime show in your library, or The Wire in 4:3 and the remastered 16:9, you know the awkwardness: they’re the same show, but they’re not, and Plex had no clean way to treat them as two distinct things.

You may already be familiar with Editions from movies. Same idea: when you have two genuinely different releases of a TV show (not just different quality encodes of the same content) you can label them as separate editions. Each gets its own listing in your library, tracked independently for watch status, ratings, and metadata.

Some examples of where this comes in handy:

• Dubbed vs. original-language releases (anime fans, you know who you are)
• Color and black-and-white editions of the same series (Spider Noir)
• Shows re-released in a different …

I have a lifelong friend, we live on opposite sides of the country now, great friends and all that. But these days the majority of our texts are just him asking if I can add something on Plex. It’s maybe like once every 2 weeks. No biggie. I mean, I rarely text with most of my good friends anyway. Everyone moved and got busy, classic stuff in your 30s.

Anyway, just kind of a bummer lmao. But we still catch up sometimes and see each other when we’re in town.

Also, getting ahead of it, I don’t want to set up Ombi or anything (tried it and I didn’t like it). I really don’t want to give people any freedom when HDDs are so expensive or deal with the security or explaining how it works etc.

Just curious if anyone can relate. I know the solution (if I even feel like saying anything), it’s just nice to hear someone can relate.