Seems like there’s always an issue with GitHub.

We rely on it for critical ci/cd and ultimately deploys. I wonder how many more issues it’ll take before we start looking elsewhere.

How are y’all dealing with Chesterton’s Fence when reading code?

Pre-AI, there used to be some signal from code being there that it had some value. By that I mean that if there’s an easy way and a hard way to do something, and you see the hard way being done, it’s because someone thought they needed to put in the effort to do the hard way. And there was some insight to be gained in thinking about why that was the case. Sure occasionally it was because the author didn’t have the simple thing cross their mind, but with knowledge of the author’s past code I could anticipate that too.

With AI generated code that feels less true. An AI has no laziness keeping it from doing the fancy thing. That means that sometimes the fancy thing isn’t there for any particular reason. It works so it’s there.

This naturally poses a problem with Chesterton’s Fence: If I spend a bunch of time looking for the reason that a particular piece of complexity …

The company I work for hired a junior a few months back. He is fresh out of university, cannot express himself very well,and during his time in college he made some consulting, and write some shallow tutorials in medium. Unsurprisingly, he has this mindset in which the more code he wrote and merge, the better employee he is, regardless the code nor the impact. It’s ok, I was there once too.
My manager wanted me to pair with him to slowly introduce him into the code base, starting with the easiest service. Im a senior but he doesn’t report to me, so my work with him is meant to be collaborative where I lead and he follows.

The situation is the following:

When I onboarded him and tried to give him permissions, he dismissed my questions and instructions quite abruptly and immediately sent me a PR to review. I chose to ignore that.

Later, he spent weeks reviewing PRs he was assigned to, consistently approving everything without real review — including large PRs in a language …

Just joined a new company. Theres a bi-weekly meeting for Sprint Planning, but no other backlog grooming/refinement sessions.

So it seems these meetings are the first time developers get to see what it is they’ll be doing for the next two weeks, and each sprint starts with “step 1: figure out what this ticket means”

Anyone else work this way? My view is devs should be involved in ticket creation, or at least consulted to some extent earlier.

I’m from the Russian internet and we a well known dev blogging platform (which I am not here to promote so I won’t mention its name but everyone in the Russian internet knows it) with a karma system that gatekeeps quality, deep technical articles, and aggressive community moderation. It’s been genuinely good for about 20 years, and even though quality degraded lately (AI influence I would assume) it’s still decent.

As far as I can tell, there’s nothing like that in the English-speaking internet segment nor had there been in the last 10-20 years. Closest competitors are Dev/Medium with dumpster quality content and Hacker News which is exceptional however not a blogging platform on its own.

I know that lately people tend to get content on Youtube etc, and maybe reading is not preferred by the younger generation of devs, but what about earlier times?

Why hasn’t anyone built a platform with a quality threshold, proper technical formatting, and an …

We’ve all seen the big news: Discord is introducing facial ID as a requirement to actually use the app starting next month. Which means one thing: people are about to dig through dozens of ancient “what’s the best self-hosted Discord alternative?” threads on here and find antiquated opinions and advice.

What are we actually using? What are the clients that work well? What are options that pass the “wife test” of actually being something you could convince your not-techy friends and family to install on their phones?

Let’s get into it. I know I’m already anticipating self-hosting something to replace Discord for communities/friend groups who’ll naturally slough off when face ID comes along.

context is the image, i am honestly fedup with big corporate date hoarding.

A while back, I got fed up with password managers gatekeeping 2FA and passkeys behind paywalls.

Also, Bitwarden started forcing email 2FA, which created this annoying chicken-and-egg loop: if I ever lost my logged-in devices, I wouldn’t be able to log in to Bitwarden because I’d need the email OTP… but my email password was *inside* Bitwarden. I just wanted to avoid that mess entirely.

I didn’t want to pay for a VPS to host Vaultwarden, but honestly, the main reason was that I don’t trust myself. Managing a Linux server means one bad command or missed backup and my passwords are gone forever. I wanted something maintenance-free where I couldn’t accidentally nuke my own vault.

So, I hacked together a Bitwarden-compatible server that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers + D1 for free. Deploy once, forget forever.

I called it warden-worker. It worked “good enough” for me, so I pushed it to GitHub, thought “maybe I’ll post …

Then I redesigned one to fit my needs. Now my wife has her own dashboard with only her apps and can see if they are offline. As a bonus, I can too!

I designed this stack while using the handicapped stall in a Walmart bathroom. I’m quite proud of it! No Ai was used but still 100% vibbing.

Just got a usenet going for the first time. Im using nzbgeek and holy this is so much better than the alternative, not needing to worry about seeders is so nice

I’ve been a lifetime member for a few years now. I recently found out my API key wasn’t working, as I could search for entries, but not grab them. So I logged into the site and changed it. It still didn’t work, so I submitted a request with the websites contact form. I got a reply back in a couple of hours saying my account has been disabled for scraping. I only use the arr stack, so replied to the email advising this. I then went back to the site to see if I could see anything else on my account page, but the account had fully been disabled and I could no longer log in at all.

Since then, I have had no communication from anybody at nzbplanet. Over the span of a week, I’ve emailed, I’ve used the contact form, I’ve sent messages to u\nzbplanetdotnet via Reddit as I saw a similar post a year ago they resolved. Nothing. I don’t see any other contact methods to try.

Not sure what I expect from this post, but the lack of communication is pretty shit tbh.

Edit: NzbPlanet have gotten back …

Recently discovered Usenet. As I am a 3d printing enthusiast, im wondering if there is an indexer that allows searching for STL Files aswell. I read of “birds of binaries” but it seems to be dead.

Over time I ended up with a few paid indexer accounts. I don’t use all of them regularly, some are there just in case, when something is missing or completion is not great.

I don’t want to game the system or anything like that, I just don’t want to lose accounts I already paid for because they sit unused for a while.

Do you actively “use” your backup indexers, or do you just leave them alone until needed? Is it enough to just have some light activity once in a while, or do you actually log in and check things?

Just wondering how others deal with this, since I’m sure I’m not the only one with a few unused subs sitting around.

Hey everyone, I live in Australia and I was looking for advice on choosing a Usenet provider for someone like me who lives in Australia, I don’t really care about stuff like a VPN included (as I won’t use it but I’m not opposed to using a service that includes one). Currently I’m setting my eyes on Newshosting but I was looking if anyone had any separate opinions on the matter.

I love Plex, but I’ve always felt like the official experience on Apple devices, especially Apple TV, could be smoother and more “at home” in the ecosystem, not to mention the rest of the issues and reasons why people decide to use Infuse.

After waiting for a major tvOS update for what feels like ages, I decided to give a shot at creating my own solution. So I’m building Lume, a native client built from the ground up for tvOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

The goal is to make a player that actually feels like a native app with a clean UI and no bloat. It’s still a work in progress (TestFlight hopefully coming soon), but I’d love to know: What is the one “native” feature or UI tweak you’ve always wanted to see in a Plex client?

I share my Plex server with some friends and family, and a few of them have a rough time when they accidentally land on a movie with stuff like animal death, sexual assault, or other heavy content. Checking DoesTheDogDie.com before every movie works, but it gets tedious. So I rebuilt an old tool that pulls those community-voted warnings directly into your Plex summaries so everyone can see them without leaving the app.

The original project was made by u/valknight about 7 years ago (https://github.com/valknight/DoesTheDogWatchPlex). Credit to them for the great idea. Their version relied on a caching proxy that died a long time ago, and the Plex API has changed a ton since then, so it doesn’t work anymore. I rewrote it from scratch to work with everything as it is now.

Here’s what the new version does:

- Works with the current DTDD API (v1.1) and modern plexapi

- Matches movies by IMDB ID first (way more accurate), falls back to title+year

- Caches API responses locally …

Hopefully, no more buffering lol