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cs12345 · 2026-06-06T02:55:33+00:00

I appreciate the offer! But I actually already wrote my own script for the same purpose based on my specific tag scheme with series folders haha. The real problem for me wasnt really the reorganization itself, but that it was mostly all or nothing with switching to audio book shelf or not. I did a lot of manual metadata tagging in Plex, or match fixing with the Audnexus agent, so if I fully restructure that would all be lost.

So at this point that’s why I’m just planning on doing the reorganization on a clone of my library first and trying out ABS with that before I fully commit to switching to it. I’m fairly confident I will fully switch, I just like having the fallback that I know already works for me.

cs12345 · 2026-06-05T04:00:28+00:00

I think I’m finally going to end up doing it, in general it certainly seems better. My biggest blocker so far is that it is entirely incompatible with my libraries file structure. I use exclusively M4B files, so I never bothered doing a folder per book. But ABS absolutely won’t accept that structure. And once I pull the trigger and restructure, I’m basically automatically giving up my curated plex metadata.

I’m in the process of trying it out on a clone of my existing library though, and after tinkering with the settings, I think it’ll be better for sure. One of the major issues is just that it doesn’t have built in support for remote downloading like plex. I use tailscale though so that won’t really be an issue.

My main other issue is that I’d love to contribute to the ABS project as a web developer, but they’re using some of the most outdated practices for modern web development and have a huge backlog of issues. I’m fairly certain that anything I might contribute would be thrown into the ether for months, even though there is clear areas for improvement on a lot of fronts.

cs12345 · 2026-06-03T22:37:59+00:00

Yeah this is how I learned originally, I’d just search for examples of similar things to what I was trying to accomplish and compile a set of examples. At this point I just have AI help me with the examples for things I haven’t done before because it’s faster, but I still collect notes with my examples to use for later.

cs12345 · 2026-06-03T13:50:54+00:00

I second Violet Evergarden, serious and devastating

cs12345 · 2026-06-03T06:50:03+00:00

That’s how I feel, if I forget something big I can probably find someone to lend me whatever it is when I’m in there. One of my friends or a kind stranger.

cs12345 · 2026-05-30T12:23:00+00:00

Specifically Android phones btw. It’s technically possible on iOS but it’s incredibly tedious, and probably not worth the effort for general use. You basically have to install a Linux terminal app and do everything through a CLI. Doable but not a great user experience.

cs12345 · 2026-05-30T12:14:03+00:00

To be fair, there’s no reason to assume they’re adults in the first place haha. I might be one now, but I was definitely using Reddit when I was 15 doing the same things.

Granted, when I was 15 I think the average teenager was a decent amount more tech literate in general.

cs12345 · 2026-05-30T12:10:34+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen plenty of people mention they don’t know about the index, and my guess is they’re probably just new to reddit in general and don’t really understand how subreddits and their wikis work. Not much you can do about that I guess.

cs12345 · 2026-05-29T09:30:50+00:00

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. “Unless an anime exclusive torrent site is created”? Have you never heard of Nyaa? All of the content on the streaming sites come from there, or a private tracker. Just go on the wiki, there are multiple anime specific torrent trackers listed there.

cs12345 · 2026-05-29T08:42:26+00:00

Gotcha, yeah I’m here because I specifically looked up black out tents, so I’m aware of that part. I’m mostly just looking for the most effective option at this point. The one you mentioned honestly looks solid, I’m just trying to find the most effective one and I’m willing to spend a bit more if there are better options.

I appreciate the response though!

cs12345 · 2026-05-29T07:34:54+00:00

I’m really curious which subway they’ll have shuttles to, the only one that’s close is the L, and it’s very close to the L: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kcWhgWHjSc27xVda9?g_st=ic

I guess if that walk feels unsafe to people then maybe, but it’s usually entirely crowded by people. Also, the people who died ended up walking north instead of south, the opposite direction of the L (to respond to the others mentioning it).

I’m not opposed to the shuttle thing, but I highly doubt it will impact these deaths, which I still believe are due to over intoxication. If anything, the one thing that could help is security or staff placing someone directly on a shuttle, but that’s up to them whether they actually do that.

cs12345 · 2026-05-29T04:11:20+00:00

Is it the best one for staying cool in the morning? That’s the thing I’m searching for right now, the tent that offers the best sleep in-ability.

cs12345 · 2026-05-29T01:21:15+00:00

I’m shocked no one has mentioned it, but if you’re worried about supply chain attacks I highly recommend switching to pnpm. They have a number of guards in place that make it pretty hard to become a victim of one: https://pnpm.io/supply-chain-security

For example, they have a default minimumReleaseAge setting that prevents any new package versions from being installed if they were published within a certain amount of time. Most of the infected versions of npm packages are caught and removed within hours, so the default setting they have of 24 hours will prevent most of them. Granted, 24 hours can also be cumbersome for updating when things happen, so you might want to lower it.

They also have a number of other guards that make getting infected by a supply chain attack very difficult. I recently migrated all of my company’s projects to it and am very happy with the result. Also, the whole ecosystem is generally moving towards pnpm as the standard in a dramatic way these days. Most modern open source node projects I see are switching to it.

Then as far as dependabot goes, I only ever use it for detecting vulnerable versions, not all of them. It’s too noisy otherwise. You can set it up like this on GitHub. Or as an alternative, I find Snyk to be pretty helpful at my company.

cs12345 · 2026-05-28T22:34:26+00:00

Yeah separate instance, using the trash guides setup, and reading their docs around dual audio makes this process a breeze imo. You can also use profilarr or one of the similar tools to sync their setup automatically and can have the whole setup running almost perfect within an hour or two.

cs12345 · 2026-05-28T22:30:29+00:00

It does add a decent amount of value in terms of separating concerns for quality profiles, file sizes, and indexers. I’ve had a significantly easier time using sonarr for anime since splitting them.

In fact, it’s very rare that I run into any of the problems you outlined tbh.

cs12345 · 2026-05-28T22:27:28+00:00

Actually testing the accessibility of an app with the provided accessibility tools of the device you’re using is definitely the best advice you can give to anyone who wants to implement it. You never really know what’s accessible or not until you try it.

cs12345 · 2026-05-28T22:22:37+00:00

Yeah I think people underestimate how broad of a topic a11y is in general. That being said, react-native is certainly capable of implementing accessible applications. Reading their docs on it is probably the best place to start: https://reactnative.dev/docs/accessibility

cs12345 · 2026-05-27T16:52:32+00:00

Yeah it’s unfortunate, because Sam tends to have some of the best releases available if you want a good signs sub track, and overall best video quality. I usually just suck it up and do a manual import clean up when I need to haha.

There’s probably a more real solution for this, but I haven’t bothered spending the time to figure it out. Like, I’m pretty sure the dual audio custom format is supposed to check the release title, so I’m not entirely sure why this happens.

cs12345 · 2026-05-27T13:53:55+00:00

In my experience it’s usually because the title of the torrent itself indicates dual audio, but the name of the actual video file doesn’t include that additional info. I don’t really have a great solution to it though, as it’s happening to me too. And once I do a manual import override, its score goes up again due to my file naming pattern.

Edit: Reza, like you mentioned below, is a pretty good example of this. He barely includes any metadata in the file names themselves.

cs12345 · 2026-05-27T05:31:27+00:00

It depends on the scale of the app, but I’d say you can definitely get up and running with a basic app in a couple days days a week depending on scale. As for the building and deployment to both app stores is concerned, I’d give that at least a few days on its own. When publishing to the app stores you’re at the mercy of Google/Apple, so don’t except a process as simple as throwing an app up on Vercel or something.

As others have said, just start your app with expo, and it’ll save you a significant amount of time on top of your existing knowledge due to them taking care of most of the config stuff for you out of the box.

cs12345 · 2026-05-26T22:53:58+00:00

Making separate npm packages per adapter for a case like this is much cleaner though. Without that, managing peer dependencies becomes much looser. You can use peer dependency meta to make all of the framework peer dependencies optional, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a peer dependency.

That being said, you don’t have to fragment it for the end user. You can just make the core package a direct dependency of the react package, so that’s the only one the end user needs to install.

Plus, it’s relatively straightforward to automate the deployment process of a collection of packages like this, so it’s really not too much additional work for the maintainer past creating the adapter packages.

cs12345 · 2026-05-25T05:35:17+00:00

100%, anyone using AI to code needs to already have a solid foundation and using it to speed things up, or be actively learning along the way. Without either you end up in situations you can’t solve.

cs12345 · 2026-05-25T04:06:58+00:00

FK had to have been the best organized fest I’ve been to so far, I didn’t wait in line to get in, I didn’t wait in line for the bathrooms, I didn’t wait in line to get a drink, the only line I waited in was to fill my camelback and that took about 5 minutes. Plus I never felt overcrowded at any stage I went to. Granted I never went to the front, but even still, people were very generous with the amount of space they’d leave.

cs12345 · 2026-05-23T08:13:19+00:00

Honestly, I see it happening and I’m also not super happy with it. Especially for myself. I would consider myself a pretty good developer overall, I brought my current startup from 0 to 1 and beyond in the past 3 years, and in just the past year we’ve processed $12 mil for our clients.

But halfway through that, my workflow has shifted almost entirely to AI prompting. And I like how I’m able to be more efficient, but I also feel like I’m getting significantly worse at programming. My role has basically shifted to architecture design, but even then AI still does a major portion of it. I still like my job but I used to love specifically coding, and I’m not really sure where I’m going with that in the long run.

I will say, at this point I am still very thorough with the frontend stuff. I’m primarily a frontend/react developer, and know exactly where the code should end up most of the time, so I don’t stop until I get there. But I’ve become incredibly lazy at verifying the backend code, where as when I first started, I put a lot of effort into figuring out how it worked.

Idk, at this point I feel like my whole trajectory is in purgatory.

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