EM with 10+ years of experience as both an IC/senior engineer and a team lead. This and the other programming and AI subs are making me feel like either the rest of the world is losing its grip on reality, or I already have. Please help me figure out which.

My team fully adopted Claude Code last year, after some unstructured experimenting with Claude, Cursor, and Copilot. We all agreed having a single “target environment” for any “agent instructions” we might want to share team wide. We’ve set about building a shared repo of standalone skills (i.e., skills that aren’t coupled to implementation details in our repos), as well as committing skills and “always-on” context for our production repositories. We’ve had Claude generate skills based on our existing runbooks in Confluence, which has also produced some nice scripted solutions to manual runbooks that we probably wouldn’t have had time to address in our day-to-day. …

You sure have heard it, it has been repeated countless times in the last few weeks, even from some luminaries of the developers world: “AI coding makes you 10x more productive and if you don’t use it you will be left behind”. Sounds ominous right? Well, one of the biggest promoters of AI assisted coding has just put a stop to the hype and FOMO. Anthropic has published a paper that concludes:

* There is no significant speed up in development by using AI assisted coding. This is partly because composing prompts and giving context to the LLM takes a lot of time, sometimes comparable as writing the code manually.

* AI assisted coding significantly lowers the comprehension of the codebase and impairs developers grow. Developers who rely more on AI perform worst at debugging, conceptual understanding and code reading.

This seems to contradict the massive push that has occurred in the last weeks, where people are saying that AI speeds them up massively(some claiming a …

I really want to leave my job.

I am an “Engineering Manager” of a team that has dwindled down to 2 IC’s, a “product guy”, and myself. I code as much if not more than anyone on my team as I am shielding them.

Beyond management and coding, I am also now in charge of the business strategy of the product I work on and I largely do all the product owner/project management myself, as well as code design and architecture. Often we will have a tester that can’t test so I will travel a 3-5 hour round trip in a car to our test-field to go test things as well when needed. There isn’t a single job I do not do (this is not a startup).

I am finding that trying to find a new job with all this responsibility is extremely difficult.

I had an interview the other day and I basically had to spend two days doing nothing at work so I could try and cram for a system design interview covering things I’ve never done in my professional career. I don’t …

Scenario: A higher up, who is many levels above you and who you have no interaction with, wants a new project done. And they want your team to do it. This is a pivot from what you usually do, so your team is a bit perplexed. Your direct manager and skip level try to reassure you and sell this as an exciting opportunity.

You start the work, and your team is not happy. This new project is tedious and out of your wheelhouse in a bad way (think working on outdated or proprietary tech). Everything you were working on before is left to rot in maintenance mode. But boy those higher ups are excited!

However despite their excitement, the VPs and C levels don’t actually know what they *want* beyond the buzzwords and biz-speak. It’s as if they wanted to build a house without the slightest idea of the location or size.

It’s hard to start building if you don’t know where to lay the foundation, so your team asks questions. A lot of them. The product team is just as confused as you are, and they …

Seriously. This dev was just lazy and sloppy, antipatterns everywhere, but whenever I called them out on it in a PR, they would go to our manager and often make up some untrue story about me to get their way. And my manager always took their side. But they had been there 4-5 years before I got there and had a close relationship with my manager.

They’ve moved on and I’m for all intents and purposes the lead, since we were just a 2-person team. And now I’m squashing bugs left and right that were caused by this person’s shitty code. Like, 1000-line method? Don’t mind if I do. Duplicate the same code hundreds of times across the codebase (I counted) instead of writing a single method? Please do. That kind of stuff.

So now I’ve spent 2+ days tracking down a bug, and surprise surprise, it was caused by my former co-worker’s carelessness.

My manager is going to ask me what the root cause is, and I’m very tempted to say it was X’s shitty …

Started as a joke to prove a point to my coworker who insisted we needed aws for everything. now its been 8 months and this little pi is routing all our internal apis, handling auth, rate limiting, the works.

power went out last month and my wife asked why I was panicking about the closet. had to explain that our entire company’s internal api infrastructure lives next to the christmas decorations.

Immich 2.5.0 just added device clean up feature. Pretty basic, I know. But what is not basic about it, is the little details. Asking you if you want to keep some stuff based on date or folder..

And the photo/video sync status icons (not from the 2.5.0 release). If I remember correctly, Google Photos had something like this in the past? Can’t really recall. But anyways, this stuff is huge for me. In Google Photos, I can’t fucking tell whether that photo is on device or not until I click the menu and explore the options.

Congratulations to the Immich team! Small details like these win users. What’s your favorite feature from Immich?

One more shout out lol. Today is the day I officially migrated off of Google Photos. 🎉

music downloaded and automatically sorted with yubal, navidrome for pc, symfonium + tailscale for phone

Not sure why this hasn’t been posted here yet, but Immich is trying to build a public EXIF dataset to improve their metadata parsing. They’re asking people to upload photos from a variety of cameras and smartphones to build this dataset. Please participate to improve Immich!

https://datasets.immich.app/

They mention in the video that the content of your uploaded photos will be publicly accessible (including metadata like GPS coordinates), so it’s best to take more generic photos in locations you do not consider PII.

I have

Miatrix(lifetime)NZBGEEK(Lifetime)NZBPLANET(Lifetime)NZBFinder(1Year)Althub(1Year)

And various tor private trackers

I’ve heard ninja is good anything else i should try to get?

Getting unpack errors on maybe 1 out of 10 downloads. Par2 repair runs but sometimes still fails. Files look fine in the NZB.

Is this a provider issue or something on my end? Running SABnzbd on Windows if that matters.

New to usenet, seeking for the best setup.

Hello!

Started yesterday with Usenet and I’m so hooked. New HDDs are in my cart already!

Question: I started with Newshosting which is Omicron backbone. Which other providers should I add? As far as I understand it, another provider with Omicron backbone is redundant?

Thanks!

Does anyone have an email to get support from Newshosting?

I’ve tried using their website but after I’ve proved to recaptcha that I’m human and clicked submit, the page flickers but nothing happens. Then I’m once again asked to prove I’m human.

I’ve tried so many times that I’m beginning to have doubts about my own humanity.

Any help gratefully received.

was suggested i install and use Plex to access some shared movies… now, with any streaming service, i like to scroll and add things to my watchlists… it soothes my brain to have it stored so future-me can decide if today’s the day to actually watch the thing…

Well, while doing that i compulsively explored and added nearly 700 movies as watched too. now i see that you can add friends and that their activity shows up and I’m wondering… how annoying is it gonna be for any friends to have my 830+ movies and shows inturrupt their activity feed? is it worth it to go through and one-by-one remove the activities? all of these except for the last 1 are from my life before plex… and it looks like youre only supposed to use that option for with/after starting plex…

Why doesn’t a Plex “Now Playing” HUD exist yet? (Raspberry Pi idea)

I keep wondering why nobody has made this, because it feels obvious:

A small, dedicated Plex HUD device for album art and “Now Playing” info. Not a full media player. Not a streamer. Just a clean, always-on display you can put in every room.

Think Cambridge Audio / Sonos-style front panel, but simplified and cheap.

The concept

A room node that only shows:

Album art

Track / artist / progress bar

“Now Playing”

Optional play/pause / volume

That’s it.

No decoding. No local library scanning. No HDMI switching. No remote juggling.

Just a Plex dashboard appliance.

Hardware (this is the easy part)

Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB is plenty)

Small IPS display (5–7”, 800×480 or 1024×600)

Ethernet (Wi-Fi fallback)

Fanless metal case (acts as a heatsink)

Optional rotary encoder or a couple buttons

The Pi 5 is massive overkill for this, which is exactly what makes it stable.

Software idea

Boot straight into a full-screen UI …

TLDR: Plex companion app to keep your homescreen fresh, get insights into your server, and a few useful tools. Demo (limited functionality, so no drag-and-drop widget system)

Anyone else spend a bunch of time setting up and customizing their Plex collections, only to have most of your users not even know they exist? Hell, you might have even forgotten yourself. I got tired of seeing the same “Top Rated Sci-Fi” and “Recently Added” rows every time I opened the app, but manually swapping collections in and out was tedious enough that I never actually did it. There were some awesome apps already out there (looking at you Agregarr), but nothing that was quite what I was looking for.

So I started building homescreen-hero, a self-hosted Plex companion app that automatically rotates which collections appear on your Plex homescreen on a schedule. You set up rotation rules and it handles the rest, so your homescreen actually feels fresh without you thinking about it. …

v9.1 represents a significant architectural shift for Huntarr. App Instances are now fully independent, legacy code has been refactored for performance, and the mobile experience has been redesigned to enhance your Sonarr media collection experience!

BLUF: A feature that has been asked for forever, every instance is now 100% truly independent. Each instance runs on it’s own timer and has all of the unique settings that has been requested for over the last two years.

Visit: https://huntarr.io - Release: https://github.com/plexguide/Huntarr.io/releases/tag/9.1.0

Major Features & Changes

• Instance Independence: App Instances are now 100% independent and no longer tied to a global App Cycle.
• Homepage Overhaul: Each App Instance now appears directly on the homepage. Statistics are no longer combined, giving you granular visibility.
• New Install Defaults: Fresh installations now start with zero instances by default.
• Per-Instance Settings: Moved several global controls to …