I use Jellyfin with FinAmp for Android. Even supports offline caching.

Jellyfin, Immich, and Paperless-ngx are three of the apps I use the most but you do whatever works best for you. That’s half the advantage of self hosting. You can have a solution that’s custom tailored to your needs.

One of the best bosses I ever had was an electronics engineer (I’m software). There are a lot of shared concepts between engineering disciplines. I enjoyed working with hardware engineers and getting to see how they approach problems.

It’s more like:

Start with some AI generated code.

AI code fails to compile immediately, if you’re lucky.

If not, spend three days trying to find some really stupid bug.

Delete the AI code and write it yourself.

This is a Repost

Big Beautiful Code

Management: “We’re only going to hire ‘full stack’ devs from now on.”

Also Management: “Why is this page taking 37 seconds to load?”

There comes a point, somewhere late in the evening after my ADHD meds have worn off, where it’s more productive to not do any coding. If I do, I’m just going to end up throwing most of it out tomorrow because it’s a bunch of bug littered spaghetti.

Unfortunately, I also solve most of my big problems when I’m not staring at a screen. After which I have to resist the temptation to go work on it so I don’t make a big mess. It’s some kind of cruel irony.

You get a lawn and white New Balances at 30. At 40 you get nearsightedness and additional back pain.

“jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone.”

QA: “Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?”

Reading ticket details…

Me: “Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?”

QA: “Yeah.”

Me: “Get him to fix it.”

QA: “I tried. Like four times.”

Me: Sigh “I’ll take care of it.”

QA: “Thank you!”

“We’re gonna make a fully functioning e-commerce website with only this WYSIWYG site builder. See? No need to hire any devs!”

Several months later…

“Well that was a complete waste of time.”

Remember when “The Cloud” was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?

ASP.Net Core is a phenomenal backend.

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

I asked ChatGPT to do a simple addition problem a while back and it gave me the wrong answer.

Does the new ISP require use of their router or just offer it as an option?

AT&T used to require using their router, which was a pile of hot garbage. I have a Mikrotik Router and managed to mostly cut the AT&T router out but I had to configure my router to use the AT&T router for authentication, at which point the Mikrotik would take over. It was complicated to configure but it worked.

That’s a tough one. There’s not a ton of great options for personal accounting apps, much less self hosted ones. I used Pocket Smith (subscription based) for years which actually does what your looking for. Decent product overall. I switched from them to Quicken mostly because I’m an anal retentive personal accounting nerd and the fact that they couldn’t produce a conventional income statement or balance sheet was a long running frustration of mine.

If I had to choose another platform again, I would go with spreadsheets since it can be as simple or complex as you want to make it. I know that’s not really what youre looking for. Wish I had a better suggestion.

“Full Stack Dev” AKA Backend Dev who knows just enough about CSS to be dangerous.

Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it’s weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.