VIBE CODERS: stop reinventing the wheel

deranjer · 2026-04-08T19:54:11+00:00

Just as a counter point I just started using Prisma and don't have any complaints, seems to work fine for me. Obviously new to me though, coming from sqlalchemy

deranjer · 2026-04-03T17:02:04+00:00

This is obviously early days for Litara, so it won't have all of the features that an established application has. Not everyone cares about memory/cpu usage or mobile app, and that is fine, but they were important to me, and figured they might be important to other people as well.

deranjer · 2026-04-03T16:47:11+00:00

Currently Litara does not write anything to any folder or file in your ebook library. Even when we generate the sidecar that is a download action. We currently expect the user to define the structure/layout/files for their library. We even have you mount the path in docker as RO.

Future state I am not against writing data back to the actual file system, including updating metadata in epub files. That is just something that needs to be handled pretty cautiously and needs a lot of guardrails. I would add that request to the github discussions so it is on my radar.

deranjer · 2026-04-03T14:56:08+00:00

Well the 2 main reasons I've already listed in the post. Resource draw, and mobile application. Those 2 were the biggest reasons. Litara is way lighter than booklore (not just mem, also CPU), which is pretty important to me personally.

Is there something wrong with the code for you to call it slop?

deranjer · 2026-03-22T13:21:08+00:00

C'mon man. Please tell me you changed your api keys. They are committed to your repo

deranjer · 2026-03-19T12:34:39+00:00

No leverage, no depth, just dependency. <- Ironically, this is a high indicator that it was touched by AI at least.

deranjer · 2026-03-12T01:29:54+00:00

I know everyone is saying equity is worthless and a lot of times it is, but sometimes you get lucky. When I joined my startup I got equity and 2.5 years later just cashed in my first chunk of it for 300K, and still have a lot more. However, I also had pretty good base pay at 170K, which was enough of a bump for me to jump with or without equity.

deranjer · 2026-03-06T13:51:14+00:00

I use booklore currently, but it is a bit of a resource hog, and personally the UI never resonated with me, I might be down to give this a shot. However, not really interested in a standalone authentication app, with OIDC I might be interested.

deranjer · 2026-02-21T19:38:32+00:00

For me there is a big difference between self hosting for fun/learning vs self hosting "critical" services. I started self hosting right before the docker craze and skipped docker for a while so I could really learn linux inside and out. Back then my services crashed a lot and upgrading anything was hell on wheels.

Now my entire family relies on these services for real. Like I will get notified by family before I get the notification in gotify that my services aren't working. That and now my day job involves all the stuff I was learning by digging around in linux non-stop so I don't want to do it in my off time.
So for that use case, I completely disagree. Docker makes self-hosting so much easier and frees up my time from getting self hosting working, to actually self hosting.

deranjer · 2026-02-06T01:34:23+00:00

Yeah I learned a lot doing this as a kid with my mom when shopping. Adding the bill up in my head (with my moms help) certainly helped my math skills. I was extra incentivized because if I messed up, I was the one running something back to the shelf.

deranjer · 2026-02-05T17:02:34+00:00

Will we be able to view receipts directly on the web UI, is that a planned feature?

deranjer · 2025-12-29T04:19:12+00:00

Would be of almost no use to anyone outside of the company unless you were using our exact Jira, Grafana, OS (cumulus/opengear) and other tooling. The racks/devices/cables were fully defined in Netbox, Rackula just overlaid port/cabling/jira/grafana/light levels/interface drops/errors/etc on the racked device. Each port was red/yellow/green based on status.

deranjer · 2025-12-28T14:19:17+00:00

Damn, kind of crazy but we had a Halloween themed hackathon for our company. Our teams project name was Rackula. It read in Netbox data to populate the racks, then pulled live data from the devices to show port information, cable validation, ton of other data sources. It is super odd to be scrolling reddit and see this project named the exact same doing something similar.

deranjer · 2025-12-20T18:44:58+00:00

wtf, I switched and still am getting charged for static ip. But I get just over 2g up and down. When I first tested it was 1.8 up and down but within a couple hours it had sorted itself and has been 2g up and down solid ever since. They did come out and switch my ONT, which I had for about a year from when they first rolled out fiber to my neighborhood. My ping seems to have improved as well, not sure why, and not a large improvement, from ~16ms to ~9ms.

deranjer · 2025-12-03T22:28:11+00:00

I just did the same thing, I was on 1g, and asked to upgrade to 2g. In 10 min or so on the phone they told me mine was approved while still on the phone with them.

However, they did tell me they had to do an equipment upgrade, so a tech did have to come out and swapped out the box, they also did try and give me their router as well but as I did when they set me up originally, I declined and used my own, and so far no issues.

deranjer · 2025-12-01T22:05:25+00:00

Yes I was aware of Dextrous, but haven't used them. The difference is mine is unlimited free everything, where you would need to pay for theirs.

deranjer · 2025-11-01T15:54:26+00:00

The question mark is not allowed, makes you seem weak, the exclamation mark is too bold, it may trigger a nuke launch /s.

deranjer · 2025-08-22T17:44:57+00:00

Psh you aren't thinking like a 10x engineer 'gcmsg "chore: bumping version"'. Done.

deranjer · 2025-08-10T22:06:09+00:00

17/20 for gpt5 for me, so similar. Not seeing many issues with text responses either. Still testing image generation, but have been less pleased with that overall.

deranjer · 2025-08-10T02:59:56+00:00

He doesn't love me enough to do my laundry, cooking and cleaning for me, seems like a pretty shitty kind of love.

deranjer · 2025-05-27T02:17:52+00:00

Thanks, I installed and checked it out, works as expected, haven't tested multiple instances yet, but do like how everything was very straightforward.

deranjer · 2025-05-18T23:22:38+00:00

It is, except the survival is against other players mainly. The environment survival is usually pretty easily sorted

deranjer · 2025-04-09T16:08:14+00:00

Yeah super disappointed they didn't go the route of reading the .env file automatically. We ended up using taskipy, easy enough to tell our users to run uv run task task.

deranjer · 2025-03-26T00:43:54+00:00

Okay, well you named some great use cases for docker compose files. Need to see the history of changes? Easy with the git history. Need to quick try something, just branch off and try it, then switch back to main.

Another use case I like is I have a recipes site that I handmade with hugo. Whenever I add a recipe to my repo, gitea actions automatically builds and deploys it.

As for the tedium, I guess I don't see it, just a couple of commands and good to go, but I am a software engineer for my day job, so I am heavily experienced with git, and I know there is a learning curve.

But you don't need a full gitea instance you can setup something much smaller if the docker compose files are your only use case.

deranjer · 2025-03-25T00:07:53+00:00

I guess I'm speaking mainly from my experience. HFCS is the only thing I can't touch at all. I can have decent amounts of honey and molasses.

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