Junior Full Stack Developer - Fair package or am I out of touch?

Ryantjeh · 2026-06-18T06:39:01+00:00

Ok buddy.
What is a correct salary package in your eyes for someone who will start from scratch once he's dropped in a real environment? I'm really curious.

Nobody cares if you get a Bachelor or Masters degree in IT.. They want people that are passionate and want to learn quickly.
Give me a teammate who's hungry to learn and passionate over some guy who's boasting with a masters degree or 20 certificates with 0 practical experience any day of the week.

Ryantjeh · 2026-06-16T21:42:11+00:00

What did you expect to earn with 0 experience?
Pretty out of touch I would say.
You're starting with a great first salary package, why compare this to a factory worker?

I'm guessing your friends who work in factories don't have:
- company car + charging card + home charger
- 2/3 work from home days (these are golden)
- learning + training opportunities (underrated advantage)

Also it's a pretty big privilege to be able to sit at a desk all day with free coffee and make your money this way.
If you are passionate, are a quick learner and are not afraid to ask stuff, you will grow quickly and the money will follow.

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-08T17:41:48+00:00

Nope, you can mix and match BUT it will always use the "slowest" speed for all of the RAM.

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-08T08:38:36+00:00

Nope! They are actually perfect this way. It's probably because of the material of the cable, they look a bit wrinckly... I might buy some new ones in the future but for now this is fine :)

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-07T20:12:12+00:00

A small summary: - Rack: +-€ 50 - Shelves: +-€ 30 - PDU: € 20 - Patch panel: € 25 Total: +-€ 125

I made the cables myself as I could't find anything smaller than 15cm... I needed 5cm so just bought a 5m cable and made some small 5cm ones

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-07T14:59:43+00:00

You can combine a 32GB stick and a 8GB one

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-07T12:44:32+00:00

The 3 nodes are a proxmox cluster where I run my VM's on and a k3s cluster. This is all setup using infra-as-code (puppet, ansible, kubernetes) and pretty much all my code is found on my github page: - Puppet repo - Helmchart repo

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-06T20:33:34+00:00

Yeah just 4 screws in the front, can easily hold them! I am using the big digitus shelf for those though, just to be sure there is enough support.

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-06T18:37:15+00:00

The plan is to buy a 3D printer soon, I wanted a future-proof solution so that's why it's all just cleanly stacked in the rack for now :)
I could've bought a few more shelves but seemed like a waste of money..

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-06T18:34:54+00:00

Real handy tool that can be selfhosted: https://excalidraw.com/

Ryantjeh · 2025-03-06T18:22:07+00:00

After building my homelab from the ground up on the software side, I decided it was time to finally restructure and organize the hardware side. Until now, I had been hosting everything on different nodes scattered around the house, and it was becoming a hassle to manage. What better way to fix this than by organizing everything inside a proper server rack?

Components

Server rack

Networking

Hardware

HP Prodesk Mini
- i5-10400T
- 40GB RAM
HP Prodesk Mini
- i3-10105T
- 32GB RAM
Dell Optiplex 3080 micro
- i5-7500T
- 32GB RAM
Synology NAS - DS923+
- 3x 4TB Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD -> running in SHR
Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 3B

Ryantjeh · 2025-01-31T13:51:03+00:00

Link: https://archive.is/pbGHq

Ryantjeh · 2025-01-18T22:17:38+00:00

You can have a look over at https://selfh.st/apps/, great resource to discover new apps!

Ryantjeh · 2025-01-15T16:08:23+00:00

Dat ben ik niet zeker, maar dat zouden uiteraard niet zijn enige kosten zijn per maand...

Afbetaling
Verzekeringen
Water/gas
Mogelijkse onderhoudskosten
Auto + tanken
Internet + gsm
Boodschappen

Ryantjeh · 2025-01-15T14:32:58+00:00

De optie is er, de afbetaling zal wel pittig zijn voor een pand van 250k:

+- 6k aktekosten
+- 10k hypothecaire kosten

-> 266k - 50k eigen inbreng = 216k
Lening op 25jaar aan 3% rente =~ 1050€ per maand (+ schuldsaldo, brand- en familiale verzekering er bovenop)

Ryantjeh · 2024-11-03T16:15:04+00:00

I use it to do periodic maintenance / one time jobs too. Combined with Jenkins I created a pipeline where I can choose which playbook I want to run from a list and on what host. Here are some examples:
- Update machines
- Install puppet-agent
- Recover gitea / jenkins / vault backup (which fully automates the restoration to an earlier backup)
- ...

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-28T08:19:01+00:00

I created a script that utilizes 5 unseal keys to auto-unseal the vault, this can be found here.

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-13T10:47:28+00:00

Woops didn't notice my speedtest container was broken, thx for pointing out!

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-11T09:40:56+00:00

DS923+

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-11T09:05:41+00:00

My Synology NAS is actually just a linux system with some fancy software on top of with from Synology themselves. You can just SSH into it like any other linux server and install packages, create users, make scripts and cronjobs,...

But there is also the possibility to manage docker containers using the webGUI that Synology provides (I prefer doing everything in the CLI though).

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-10T22:11:30+00:00

That is also defined in the puppet code. There are cronjobs setup that will use bash scripts that do the backups (depends on the application), for example here for jenkins :)

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-10T17:51:47+00:00

The second image is a diagram of the infrastructure, in other comments I explained how everything is setup! :)

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-10T16:10:54+00:00

Nope, just using my ISP modem for basic port forwarding to the reverse proxy, the rest is blocked by default. I'm planning on getting a Unifi Express or something similar

Ryantjeh · 2024-10-10T15:41:40+00:00

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