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This one is going to be short and to the point.

We all have priorities and interviewing can be really stressful.

My advice is to keep an ear to the ground. Keep that resume updated. Keep applying for those positions.

When you bomb an interview while you’re gainfully employed, the only thing lost is a little bit of time and effort. You might also learn something from the experience.

Also people often ask: “How do I find these better salaries?”… The answer is negotiating from a place of strength, ie, already having your job to fall back to. When you’ve been laid off and unemployed for a few months, you’re just looking to stop the bleeding.

Same goes for interviewing for that position that you probably aren’t going to take. The experience is valuable, and being able to get an offer and make high demands for salary is very satisfying.

I know, this isn’t anything that is all that eye …

So far, I haven’t seen any coders who are less productive than they were pre-2023. Of course, some people are less productive when they switch to vibe code mode, but usually those who refused to use it stayed the same, while those who use it meaningfully are more productive. Most people I’ve seen are willing to learn new things and adapt. While some people miss the old times, I think the majority of the community is generally positive and excited about being able to build more things.

Contrary to what we hear from CEOs, investors and fake AI gurus who became AI experts in 2023 sudeenly, despite having worked in completely different fields previously, powerful models’ ability to generate fast prototypes exposes the incompetence of those who should provide a clear vision of the product and its requirements. I see many team leaders suddenly talking like spiritual gurus or wannabe Steve Jobs about the future of tech and how AI will change everything. I also don’t …

I can never work right when I’m sharing my screen in an incident call with 10 people on the line. I especially can’t when I’m sharing my screen and some non technical leaders are asking questions and updates about every little thing I’m looking at, clicking or typing. I just can’t. I’ll get paged for an incident onto a call, immediately start looking into it, getting around the issue, gathering details, debugging etc then some PM will say “hey can you share your screen so we know you’re on this issue”. Like lady, what do you think I’m doing, just joining the call and watching Mr Beast videos? I can’t ever work efficiently with these people hovering over my shit over a call.

Am I the only one?

So our company — a pretty famous Human Resources Management SaaS which went all in on “AI” a while ago — did a 2nd round of layoffs recently. The first round was arguably necessary because many people just didn’t perform well, but last week we got another surprise invite with hidden invitee list and I immediately knew another round was about to happen. I was not disappointed, 30% of the engineers gone. I was sure I would be included as well as I am one of the more expensive engineers they have, but I was not.

Instead, they opted to just flood me with more work. Currently I am working on 1 frontend project with 1 other full stack engineer, a mobile dev, and a manager. The amount of work is pretty doable.

They fired the fullstack guy, no idea why as he was pretty good at his job and never caused issues. They also fired the mobile guy, and now expect the Web to replace the app entirely, adding even more stress on the Web app.

Then they fired most of 3 other projects …

I’m not talking about AI slop either, I work for a pretty big conglomerate and have transferred internally through numerous acquisitions throughout my career. Every single organization I have ever had the displeasure of working for, has their flagship product running on sloppy spaghetti code written by people who don’t give a shit a decade ago, long before AI and agentic coding was a thing.

I started wondering why, if the underlying codebase is so poor and prone to bugs, that businesses still flock to these products, signing years long vendor agreements. It wasn’t until my 4th transfer that I realized that the only thing driving sales was that there was an established business entity behind said products with an in-house legal council. These business entities see anywhere between one to five new lawsuits every year, and yet, every year, revenue and net profit goes up.

It’s almost mind-boggling to me that we can continue to push untested, unreviewed code to …

My homelab does have the usual rack of stuff (Dell Poweredge R730s and ECU servers), but this one ESP32 sits separately on the wall and serves a public website entirely by itself. No nginx or apache, no Pi, no container… just a $10 microcontroller holding an outbound WebSocket to a Cloudflare Worker that fronts the traffic.

The original launch of this back in 2022 ran for ~500 days before the original board burned out in 2023. The site sat as a read-only archive until now. I relaunched it after rebuilding it from the ground up with a lot of redundancy in mind such as a Worker relay, daily off-site backups to R2, and more, check out the project’s README.

Site: https://helloesp.com

Code: https://github.com/Tech1k/helloesp

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Update: So slight miscalculation on how popular this was going to get, this was a good stress test of the ESP to say the least. The hug of death hit way harder than I anticipated lol

I believe the ESP32 has fully crashed or it’s …

Same as the title. The Bitwarden CLI has been compromised and it would be good to check your stuff. I know how popular Bitwarden is around here.

My Steam Deck LCD screen died, so I repurposed it as a headless Debian 12 NAS.

Current setup:

- Debian 12 minimal (no GUI)

- 2.5GbE USB NIC

- 6TB (main storage) + 4TB (backup)

- rsync-based incremental backups (~280MB/s)

I added a small sub display running Glances for real-time monitoring (CPU / RAM / network / processes).

This lets me check system status instantly without SSH.

Also integrated some controls via Stream Deck:

- One-button safe shutdown (sync + poweroff)

- HDD temperature check

- SSH access

The NAS is not always-on.

I power it on only when needed (backups / file access).

So far it’s stable and surprisingly fast for a Steam Deck.

Happy to answer any questions 👍

Most of us start by slapping a reverse proxy (like Nginx Proxy Manager or Traefik) and maybe Tailscale or Wireguard on our setups. But for those of you exposing specific services directly to the web, how far do you take your server hardening?

I usually stick to a strict baseline (Fail2Ban/Crowdsec, UFW, disabling root SSH, key-only auth, and isolating apps in Docker containers), but I’m curious about the more advanced layers. Are any of you actively running SOC-level monitoring, Wazuh, or strict SELinux/AppArmor profiles on your homelabs?

What is the one security measure you think the average self-hoster overlooks until it’s too late?

Hi all, it’s been a few months and we’ve made some incremental updates to LubeLogger over that time.

In case you’ve never heard of LubeLogger, it’s a self-hosted vehicle maintenance and fuel mileage tracker, you can log your service records and fillups in here and it will tell you exactly how much you’ve spent your vehicles.

Website

Documentation

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First, as stated in our previous post here with the big UI update, we were going to start converting the grids in mobile views to cards, which makes it a lot easier to see all data without horizontal scrolling on small vertical screens, and that’s finally delivered. If you prefer the older grid view in mobile, there is an option to revert in the Settings page.

https://preview.redd.it/13txlwifkkwg1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=74c3eae6a1750460529764ff9fa047c0ceeab0b7

Second, there are now real-time notifications built within the app, if you follow us on the …

Hey everyone,

I’m pretty new to Usenet and trying to figure out what the best provider is right now in terms of price/performance.

I’ve seen a lot of names like Newshosting, Eweka, UsenetServer etc., but I’m not sure which one actually gives the best value long-term. From what I understand, things like retention, completion rate and speed matter the most .

I’m not a heavy user – more like occasional downloads – so I’m also wondering:

Is it better to just get a cheap unlimited provider?

Or does it make more sense to go with a block account instead?

From what I read, block accounts don’t expire and can be cheaper if you don’t download a lot, but they cost more per GB compared to Subscriptions.

Also:

Do you guys use block accounts as your main setup or just as backup?

Any good providers for block accounts right now?

Would appreciate any recommendations or setups that worked well for you 🙌

I’ve been using a usenet for about 6 months and I still only have a vague idea of how they work. For instance, I don’t know if there’s just one usenet or if there are several. I’m using newshosting with nzbgeek, and it’s mostly working great, but the shows from one studio are consistently failing. I’ve heard others say that they aren’t having this problem with Ninja Central and Drunken Slug, but I don’t know exactly what those are, except that they only occasionally allow registration. Would one of those be equivalent to nzbgeek, or is it something else? I would love some clarification if anyone is up for it. Thanks!

Up to a few days, I had fantastic speeds from eweka.nl. However I suddenly can’t get over 2 MB/s. is anyone else having similar issues ? I’m wondering if my ISP is up to no good

As the headline says….I’ve never had a problem with them but the last few days the speed has dropped considerably - fine in the mornings, rubbish in the afternoon. I’m in Ireland, connected on 563 using Sab. I wondered if it was my ISP but I added Frugal and am getting close to full speed (1Gig Fiber). Speedtest results no ISP slowdown

Interestingly, if I route the traffic through a VPN then the speed is slower than my full line but Newshosting is faster than before.

Any clues?

EDITED TO ADD : I’m on a grandfather plan at $44/year do you think I’m being throttled to get me off it?

Update2: after running many, many years I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a mix of NH and my ISP. Rubbing through a vpn does improve speeds slightly but 50MB/s slower than it was isn’t good enough. So I’ve cancelled them and signed up to Frugal which runs at full speed.

I am looking for a provider to back up Eweka.

Both are have King’s day sale prices that are locked in (for life?).

What are your experiences using either?

https://status.plex.tv/

Twice in a week? Talk about dropping the fucking ball.

Plex for Android 2026.8.0
Plex for iOS 2026.8.0

NEW:

• Add dimensions to Edit Artwork screen. Requires wifi and mid or high performance device.
• Live TV: Selecting a channel or airing now directly starts playback rather than take you to the Live TV guide screen first.
• [tvOS] Player: support for nerd statistics.
• Show initials as fallback for user profile images that fail to load.
• [Android][iOS] Player: Bring back next / previous buttons.
• [tvOS] Update the selected and focus states of the jumpbar on TV.

FIXES:

• After creating or duplicating a list, the user would be returned to the lists screen instead of the list details screen.
• Browse screen jumpbars were broken for folder lists.
• Categories screens were broken for personal media.
• Fixed a crash on the Discover onboarding screen when the API response is missing UI data.
• Fixed a crash when viewing unmatched library items with no metadata in the server response.
• Fixed playback progress reporting errors during early live TV playback. …

Having +50ms increments is a shit idea. How to increase the amount? It takes too much time to set the proper offset. Why not have it like VLC?

Also the terminology offset is also quite unclear. Just copy what VLC does. Sorry for being harsh

Tried Plezy for the first time today, and I regret not trying it sooner.

Loaded it on a Windows 11 pc. The player is better and more responsive. App seems to be (so far) better than navigating the website. Mirrors my homepage (used Agregarr to create) almost 1to1 (some of the collections are in the wrong spot but ehh🤷‍♂️). It has watch together!! Makes movie night with friends and family easier!

I regret not using it earlier. I’ll definitely be buying the app on mobile.

Great job developer! (not sure if he/she is here)