Five years ago I would’ve rolled my eyes at this post. I was that guy pushing to rewrite stuff in Rust because it was trending then, wanted to use some experimental database I found on Github with 200 stars because the readme said it was web scale. Got into legitimate arguments about framework choices that in hindsight did not matter even a little bit.

Then I became the person who had to fix things when they broke. Oh you wanted to try that new message queue? Cool, hope you enjoy debugging why it randomly loses messages at 2am. That distributed database you read about on Hacker News? Awesome, except now deploys take 6 hours and nobody knows why.

At some point I just got tired. Tired of explaining to product why we’re three sprints behind because we’re fighting our own infrastructure. Tired of being the only person who understands how some piece of critical infrastructure works because we picked something obscure.

Now I’m boring as hell and I love it. …

I’ve been working in bank tech for 25 years and this pattern just keeps repeating everywhere I go.

Team sits down for sprint planning. Takes forever. Probably 4 hours by the time we’re done arguing about story points and breaking shit down and mapping who needs what from who.

Everyone leaves knowing what they’re doing for two weeks. Board looks great. All organized.

Couple days later something breaks. Or priorities shift. Or we find out another team needed something we didn’t know about. Plan falls apart.

Next sprint? Same thing. Four hours. New plan. Dies in a few days.

Tracked this once because it was making me insane. Out of 20 sprints maybe 3 actually ended close to what we planned at the start. The rest just completely different by the end.

So what are we even doing? It’s not planning if nothing survives. More like… I don’t know. Making management feel better? Having something to point at?

Teams I saw shipping well never did this. …

ive been in startups for the last 5+ years and recently left for a mid-sized company with a more established engineering org. I’m starting to realize I might have unknowingly been spending the last 2 years burnt out because of startups.

it wasn’t the pace. I actually liked moving fast, being productive. but I think i was losing it seeing that nobody really knew what they were doing, from the c-suite all the way down to dev team.

don’t get me wrong, some of the best engineers I’ve worked with were at these startups. but there was also much bs, and people being extremely confident while clearly not knowing what they are doing.

being mostly at series-b/c companies made it worse. that awkward stage where the company is “maturing” and “scaling,” but you still wake up to Bob’s 2k+ line PR of junk that’s “urgent”.

now i feel like a small fish in a big pond, surrounded by really strong devs with tons of legit experience building things that have real users and …

This sounds like a really dumb question but…

Has anyone every been a part of a successful project or a project they were particularly proud of or look fondly back on?

I feel like I’ve never been a part of a successful project or one where I look back on and was like, “Yeah, we did that work! I’m happy to have been a part of that whole thing!” The closest thing I’ve come to is something I worked on and while I don’t think it moved the needle necessarily, other people tell me it was great/important work.

Just really curious if other people have projects they look back on with pride.

I work for a company where I’m the only software engineer. My work is very niche, and about a third of the company’s business depends on the projects I deliver.

I have been working with this company for 3 years, and they’d been my client for 9 years prior. Up until two months ago, my boss was one of the two company owners. However, two months ago they hired a new manager to be my boss. She manages myself and 3 others who are not developers. She worked as a manager of engineering teams at her previous jobs.

So far, every one of our 1:1s has only been negative feedback for me, given in a somewhat scathing/demeaning manor. I have received zero positive feedback. I am taking it on the chin and am doing my best to apply everything she is asking. There is no acknowledgement of progress.

I have asked for candid feedback from my teammates, and while they had minor points to share, the severity or quantity does not match what my manager is expressing.

In addition, I am not …

hey homelab folks,

this came from a slightly uncomfortable thought.

I’ve had a few concussions from biking accidents over the years. every time I recover fine, but every time I also think: what if next time I don’t? what if I can’t remember how to log into my own machines?

the obvious answer is “give my 1password to my partner”. but that turns one human into the single point of failure for my whole digital life. that felt… wrong.

so I built something I call ReMemory.

it’s basically a digital safe.

you put some files in it (password manager recovery codes, notes, whatever), and 5 friends each hold a key. any 3 of them together can open it. none of them can open it alone.

the part I’m weirdly proud of: they don’t install anything. they just open a file in a browser and it works. no server, no account, no setup, no “install this tool first”.

links if you’re curious:

• https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/ (browser version + guide)
• https://github.com/eljojo/rememory (source) …

Hello,

I’m the lead dev behind Termix (a self hosted ssh server manager for all platforms, similar to Termius).

Since October 27th, 2025, I have made $467 USD from just GitHub Sponsors donations. That works out to be about $4.5 dollars per day since the first donation. A large portion of these donations have come from the last few weeks.

This includes a mix of one-time donations (largest ever was $50) and monthly donations. Currently, I make about $35 month due to monthly recurring donations.

It took about 6,000 GitHub stars before I received the first donation through GitHub Sponsors. Termix now sits at just over 10,000 for reference, with ~4 million Docker pulls.

In my case, there are no incentives to donate for any reason (no benefit other than a badge on your GitHub profile). The default and smallest donation amount that I have on my donation page is $1/month.

In a few months (maybe a year), I’ll do another post updating everyone who is curious!

Thanks,
Luke

Hey everyone! After lurking here for months, I finally took the plunge and set up my own home server. Thought I’d share my experience and setup.

What I’m Running: - Immich for photo backup (replacing Google Photos) - Navidrome for music streaming (replacing Spotify) - Jellyfin for movies/TV shows - Vaultwarden for password management - Paperless-ngx for document scanning - All running on a refurbished Dell Optiplex (i5-8500, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD + 8TB HDD)

The Good: - Complete control over my data - No more subscription fees (saving ~$25/month) - Immich’s face recognition is surprisingly good - Remote access via Tailscale works flawlessly

The Challenges: - Initial setup took longer than expected (weekend project turned into 2 weeks) - Had to learn Docker and docker-compose from scratch - Backup strategy is still WIP - Wife needed some convincing about “why can’t we just use Google?”

Unexpected Bonus: The kids now watch our home videos on Jellyfin …

Hi everyone,

I’m living on campus and my college network is incredibly restrictive. It feels like they have an aggressive firewall with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) set up.

The Situation:

• Blocked: Tailscale (VPNs don’t connect), Cloudflare Tunnels (cannot reach my home lab), Steam/Games (connection timeouts), and even standard remote desktop tools often fail.

• Allowed: Basic web browsing (HTTPS) works fine.

What I’m trying to do:

I have a home server (Linux machine) back at my parents’ house that I want to access for remote dev work, and I also just want to be able to game occasionally.

What I suspect:

Since Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnels are failing, I assume they are blocking UDP heavily and inspecting traffic signatures. Standard VPNs get flagged immediately.

The Question:

Has anyone successfully bypassed a network this strict? I’m looking for “hacky” solutions or obfuscation techniques.

• Would something like Shadowsocks or V2Ray …

I recently moved to Glance because Homarr was consuming too much RAM and makes too many DNS requests. I couldn’t be more happier with my current setup!

It took considerable time and effort to make it look and function similar to Homarr widgets but it was worth it IMO. My config is in Github link if anyone is interested.

This version brings several improvements to enhance the NZBGet user experience.

Here are the highlights of what’s new:

Key Features

System Health #722

The SystemHealth feature helps you avoid configuration errors. The application now runs checks on startup to validate your settings and environment.

• It detects conflicting settings and missing dependencies.
• It warns you about suboptimal values or filesystem and hardware compatibility issues.
• Status reports are categorized by Info, Warning and Error to help you optimize your configuration.
• SystemHealthCheck option can be enabled/disabled in Settings -> Logging.

https://preview.redd.it/1ke9sjmht9hg1.png?width=1066&format=png&auto=webp&s=29b2a86020472fa32509470838fac28d36427ace

Support for Compressed NZBs #711

You can now import NZB files directly from compressed archives.

• Supported formats include RAR, ZIP, GZIP, etc.
• This works for files uploaded via the WebUI and files dropped into the NzbDir (watch folder). …

I’m aware that there are a number of us veteran computer users who had huge fun exploring the ancient WWW. Newsgroups gave us access to a vast community of interested people who shared interests and wished to put the whole thing to good use. On my attempted return to the fray, I’m met with demands for payment and apparent danger signs all over the place.

Has Reddit become the natural successor?

So I blame myself for missing the opportunity to subscribe to a provider during blackfriday sales.

I bought the Newshosting sub to start using usenet, but as I notice there is only 250gb of Easynews.

I wonder what is going to be the next date/event where I could hope to get a discounted deal, or if I am doomed of waiting 9 months until next blackfriday.

Can you please help me?

just registered at nzb finder. there should be a 3 downloads per day limit as I have read online ar various places. however my account only shows a limit of 0 and there only options for the paid subscriptions… anyone know something?

What is going on with my sabnzbd speed? it runs fine for a bit and then starts bouncing up and down. I don’t think it always did this. Just started looking recently when it felt like downloads were slow.

In ESXi I see disk throughput is low but latency is high suggesting lots of small writes which makes sense with usenet. I think it runs fine until the Article Cache Limit (which is 1GB) fills up and then it starts writing to disk. This is a SSD with the incomplete/complete folder on it which then from there is moved to spinning drives.

What is the solution? I got plenty of RAM on this server not in use. Should I bump Article Cache Limit to like 50GB?

https://i.imgur.com/P8bjjAt.png

I rarely had an issue casting plex videos from my iPhone to my TV but with one of the newer updates now whenever I cast from my phone to plex, instead of just casting the video it tries to open plex and then cast, but if you have multiple accounts it doesn’t cast. So now instead of casting Bluey to my damn TV it sends me to a login, and then when you login it just plays the last video since it loses the session.

Plex casting went from something almost entirely painless into something almost entirely useless that I now need to reconfigure all of my players to make work.

So thank you Plex, after 10+ years of being a Plex Pro user, let me gift you with another fuck you.

One of these is 1080p, the others are all 240p copies. I’m sure there was an easier way to achieve this effect but that’s what I landed on

Per the several recent monthly threads, check your privacy settings here

https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/?vendredir=1

You can see I have commented of Plex changing SOME settings to Yes, but keeping the rest as “No”, I checked today and every single one of them is now “Yes”

Every. Single. One.

Like, I’ve had plex pass since 2012 or so, and if I have to keep doing this monthly I’m out and over to the fully open source competitor.

EVERY SINGLE ONE was changed to yes.

Right now this only affects a VERY small set of devices but this could be a sign of things to come.