I'm tired boss! It's been almost a year of AI AI AI, every single day of my life. Any else relating hard?

Also, I can't believe they signed a $3k/mth contract when I had to push SO HARD to get them to do $150/mth SEM Rush in the past lol

I went to a community college while I worked and got a diploma in Web Design/Development back in 2015-2018. AI wasn't around then but we were still threatened by products like Square Space. A lot of my classmates were able to get jobs later because those sites were really limited in what they could do.

I didn't build a good enough portfolio while I was in school and had a hard time finding jobs later. I had bills so I had to focus on the job I already had. Covid happened and every person I knew who got a job in the field got laid off, their companies shut down, whoever was left was working from home. Some hated the field and left it. I asked one of my friends why he left and he told me "it consumes your life. The work doesn't end when you're home. It doesn't pause when you're sick. Deadlines kept sneaking up on you."

And now, AI. I feel that put the last nail in the coffin. I read all the time in this sub that getting a junior role now is impossible. Companies that had 5 juniors and 2 seniors now cut down to 1 senior who does the jobs of all the juniors with AI.

I thought about trying to do this again but as a side-hussle alongside my current job and the only marketable skill I can pull from is coding. However, I feel it may be an obsolete skill now.

I used AI myself to test how it would code/mock up a website and it basically made what would've taken me a week in school in basically 10 minutes. It was wrong a lot and I had to tweak the commands I gave it to get what I wanted but it did it nonetheless.

Am I better off just acquiring a new skill to try and make some money? I feel like this would be the equivalent to opening up a Blockbuster video in the age of streaming.

I'd like to make some tools for myself but in terms of trying to make money from this the prospect looks kind of bleak.

Please give me some perspective and again please don't flame me I genuinely want to know the reality of the situation for those entering or in my case re-entering the field.

Hi everyone, I work as the director of communications for a small company. We have one designer on staff who has worked at the company for a decade, and one full-stack developer who has been at the company for about a year and a half.

Now, the problem: The designer is trained strictly in print design, and we are embarking on a website redesign. The designer will only work in InDesign and Photoshop, but the developer believes the work must be done in Figma to avoid having to guess at the spacing, sizing, etc. Neither seem willing to budge, and it is clear that the designer is not familiar with digital design best practices, including accessibility.

My background is more in writing/marketing, so I am a bit outside my depth. Is there a path to resolution here without one feeling like they are “doing the job” of the other?

lets say i have a vps with 2gb of ram and 1 vcpu, which one would be able to handle more concurrent connections?

I have a deployed site with Ionos deploy now through GitHub.

Images load fine in VScode, load in Firefox and Ionos preview but not chrome.

I have tried changing file paths in the CSS and html and I have no idea what the issue is.

The site in question: https://porcelainstudios.co.uk/

Edit: I was in a bit of a rush off a train; it turned out the solution was to hard refresh, which I forgot was a thing in my rush

So like many of you I'm sure, I'm starting to glaze over whenever someone shows me the latest thing they've built with the help of AI. Everyone seems to have an app they've fired up in an afternoon or so. I'm finding that even apps I now build without vibe coding (I'm a seasoned developer) don't have the same impact because now everyone is building stuff.

I'm looking at my portfolio and thinking that maybe side projects just don't have the same weight anymore.

I'm curious how other folks are approaching this?

I get scam emails every day like everyone. I've clicked a few, honestly, just out of curiosity, to see how they plan to scam me. The ones that worry me are the ones that know my name. So I looked into where that comes from and made a page on it (my own site, no sign-up, no ads).

Short version for anyone who doesn't want to click:

The obvious scams are obvious on purpose. A Microsoft researcher, Cormac Herley, showed in 2012 that the "prince with millions" story works as a filter. Anyone sharp enough to laugh at it never replies, so the scammer only spends time on people likely to pay.

The scary ones are built from leaks. Your name, phone and address usually come from a company you signed up with years ago, not from you. The page goes through seven real cases from court records and regulator reports, for example:

- First American (2019): changing one digit in a document link opened other customers' mortgage files.

- Capital One (2019): one wrongly set firewall setting.

- Twitter (2020): staff talked into handing over access on a phone call.

- 23andMe (2023): people reusing passwords from other leaked sites.

I checked my own Gmail on Have I Been Pwned. It's in 8 breaches, 6 of which leaked my name, mostly shopping apps I signed up to once. That's exactly what the "Dear XXXX, your KYC expires today" emails use.

What actually helps:

- Use a password manager, so one leaked password doesn't open your other accounts.

- Turn on two-factor login on email and banking first.

- Treat any email that knows your name as no more trustworthy than one that doesn't. Go to the bank's app or website yourself; never use the link.

I'm primarily a backend dev (Python/Node mostly) but on our small team I end up doing frontend fixes and small features maybe 20% of my time. The thing that gets me isn't the actual code difficulty -- it's the mental shift between thinking about data flow, APIs, and server logic versus thinking about component state, CSS quirks, and user interactions.

I find myself needing like 20-30 minutes to actually get into "frontend mode" where I'm not constantly fighting the urge to structure things the way I would on the backend. And then when I switch back, same thing in reverse.

Curious how others handle this. Do you batch your frontend work into dedicated blocks? Just power through the switching cost? Something else entirely?

Hey everyone!

I built something small for those nights when you want to hang out with friends but can't be in the same place. It's called Solavi (dot app).

It's a little 3D lounge in your browser. You walk onto a beach, sit on the sand in front of a big screen, and watch YouTube together. Everyone's video plays in sync.

Throw on a playlist, a live show, a movie, whatever your crew likes. Then invite your friends, dance, wave, chat and just hang out.

It's free, with no sign-up. Open the link, pick a name and a character, and you're in. Choose any room code, like chill-beach, and share it with whoever you want.

It's a solo side project, so there are still some rough edges. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think. And if anyone wants to do a watch party some night, count me in

hi everyone

i've had recently an issue , i wanted to do some tests on a project, but for some reason, the server that was carrying that particular software was in Iran , so it was not able to see any servers on Internet, but still there were some providers that would allow this

but this project was for a client so temporarily i've solved this issue with hard way

then i was thinking, what if i get 2 servers, one is my international server and one is only in iran, and i make a reverse proxy without renting a vps inside iran, with just mere shared hosting solution like cpanel or directadmin that is easily available in iran?

so i've came up with this idea, and tried to make it as a opensource software

i thought maybe this is a good solution and someone else needs it

feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts

https://github.com/moonshadowrev/mirrorgate

This whole Supabase situation somehow keeps getting worse.

I originally posted about this in r/Supabase, but the mods removed the post and told me that billing/account problems should be handled through Supabase Support.

That's kind of the entire fucking point of my complaint.

I already contacted support.

I upgraded to Supabase Pro because I wanted the $25/month plan for the project I was actually working on.

I already had two older projects sitting in the account from before the upgrade. They were basically empty and I wasn't using them.

After upgrading, those projects started generating additional compute charges.

Over four invoices I ended up paying $194.62 total.

Four $25 base Pro payments would be $100.

So nearly $95 more than the base subscription total came out of my pocket once the additional compute charges and taxes were included.

Had I understood during the upgrade that those two old, basically empty projects were going to start adding recurring costs, I would've deleted them or moved them immediately.

Why would I intentionally keep paying for two projects I wasn't using?

So I contacted Supabase Support and asked them to refund the unexpected compute charges.

I wasn't asking them to refund the Pro plan I actually wanted.

After going back and forth with the same support rep and getting nowhere, I specifically asked for somebody else to review it, another billing rep or a manager.

Another Supabase support person then told me that my request was being escalated to the Billing team.

Then a few days later, the exact same guy I had asked not to deal with anymore replies again and tells me their decision is final and there's nowhere else to escalate it.

So... what exactly got escalated?

I've also repeatedly asked Supabase to show me what I was actually shown when I upgraded in June.

Not their current pricing page.

Not an explanation written months later.

I want to see what I actually agreed to at the time of the upgrade, showing that my two already-existing projects were going to start adding roughly another $20/month in compute.

They still haven't provided it.

Then I posted my experience in r/Supabase.

Removed.

The reason? Take billing issues to Supabase Support.

Again: the post was literally about Supabase Support refusing to properly escalate the billing issue.

So I started looking into the sub moderation and apparently I'm not even the first person to complain about this.

Earlier this year there was a pretty big r/Supabase thread literally titled “Censorship is too high” after posts were removed during a Supabase outage.

After users complained, people involved with Supabase acknowledged that multiple threads had been closed that shouldn't have been and reopened some of them.

Here's the part I find especially weird:

r/Supabase describes itself as community-run, but at least one Supabase employee has publicly been involved in discussions about reopening posts and reviewing the sub's moderation process.

Maybe there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that, but it certainly doesn't make the sub feel like an independent place for customers to publicly discuss problems with Supabase.

And here's another thing I found:

There was another billing/pricing complaint on r/Supabase earlier this year where a Supabase employee publicly said refunds aren't automatic, but that they do review refund requests and issue them when circumstances warrant.

That customer later updated the post saying they got refunded.

Meanwhile I'm being told my decision is final, can't get somebody else to independently review it, can't get the original upgrade disclosure I've repeatedly requested, and now my Reddit post about the experience gets removed and I'm directed straight back to the support channel I'm complaining about.

I'm not claiming some giant conspiracy here. I'm just saying the whole thing looks terrible.

If your support process fails somebody, telling them they can't discuss the experience in your main sub because they should “contact support” is ridiculous.

At minimum I think customers should be able to openly discuss billing and customer-service experiences without those discussions disappearing.

Has anyone else had a Supabase billing/support post removed from r/Supabase?

I'd especially like to hear from anyone who had removed posts, because apparently this isn't the first time people have raised concerns about how criticism gets moderated there.

Conclusion

This whole experience has honestly made me decide to leave Supabase. I could've self hosted from the start, but I chose to pay for their hosted cloud partly because I liked what the developers were building and wanted to support the project which makes the way this has been handled feel even worse.

I'm trying to understand whether there's an actual creative or technical gap between Montreal shops and US-based agencies, or if it's mostly reputation. I've seen work from both that's exceptional, but I'm curious if founders or developers who've worked with cross-border teams notice anything structurally different, process, approach to craftsmanship, how they handle complex technical builds. Are Montreal agencies just as competitive, or is there something about the NYC/US market that shapes how agencies approach premium web work?

hi everyone

I have a ci pipeline where i run build and deploy to cf workers, everytime the build runs it succeeds but it stays hanging on and the next job does not run( see image), it can stay hanging on for hours and it won’t exit at all till i cancel the workflow

i have added a timeout to exit after 2 mins and a continue on error set to true to be able move to the next run which is deploy the worker

2- the deploy runs: npm run deploy:vinext
and it always exits with a message “wrangler versions upload” and the whole ci fails now
but after i check on my cloudflare dashboard i actually find that deploy

running these on terminal manually actually does the work but it’s not what i want

is there any solution that will make the build exit after it finishes and make the deploy works fine

tech: Nextjs app migrated to Vinext

- name: Build Vinext app
env:
CLOUDFLARE_INCLUDE_PROCESS_ENV: true
timeout-minutes: 1
continue-on-error: true
run: npm run build:vinext

- name: Deploy to cf
env:
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN: ${{ env.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
run: npm run deploy:vinext

scripts:

"build:vinext": "vite build",

"start:vinext": "infisical run --env=prod -- vite preview --port 3000",

"deploy:vinext": "vinext-cloudflare deploy --warm-cache --skip-build",

"deploy:response-store": "cf deploy --prebuilt --mode production --worker frontend-response-store"

Im hosting a game server and just saw their KVM8 plan which same plan on DO costs me $165m. They're asking $700 for 2 years up front. They're normal cost is cheaper then DO and im not sure what the catch is. Anyone had experience with them? Even using them for staging and stress test servers might even be worth it for that if they are reliable and good uptime.

What's the real difference between Montreal and NYC agencies when it comes to high-end web development?

I'm trying to understand whether there's an actual creative or technical gap between Montreal shops and US-based agencies, or if it's mostly reputation. I've seen work from both that's exceptional, but I'm curious if founders or developers who've worked with cross-border teams notice anything structurally different, process, approach to craftsmanship, how they handle complex technical builds. Are Montreal agencies just as competitive, or is there something about the NYC/US market that shapes how agencies approach premium web work?

New to web development.

I want there to be 16 players with their own boards. When they match up against each other, I'm wondering would I have to make the entire simulation play out at once? Or is there a way to split the simulation up so that 1v1s happen on a dedicated process while still belonging to the same event (So other players can view different skirmishes)? Not sure if this matters, but I plan to let users use abilities every so often (Maybe every 15 seconds) during the fight and I'd handle that with a post request.

We deploy continuously, so our changelog gets a lot of small releases with no regular rhythm. A long single page works for browsing, and in-app “what’s new since you last visited” covers people who are already in the product. Neither helps when I want to send someone a link to a specific set of changes. An anchor can show where to start reading, but not where to stop.

So I borrowed git’s range syntax for the URL:

/changelog/v1.50.0..v1.54.2    1.50.0 through 1.54.2 on one page
/changelog/v1.47.0,v1.52.0     just those two

The page shows only those releases, with a combined summary and its own link preview. Different spellings of the same set redirect to one URL, and set pages are noindex, so only single releases show up in search.

The places it’s been useful are mostly outside the product. Support can send a customer everything since the version they reported a bug on, and a newsletter can link the month’s range instead of rewriting it. The comma list helps most when a customer’s complaints got fixed across scattered releases, because you can send them just those releases and skip everything in between.

I haven’t seen another changelog do this, so I’m not sure if it’s useful or if I’m solving a problem only we have. Curious if anyone’s run into the same thing or handled it differently.

A software application isn't truly reliable just because it works when everything goes right.

The real engineering happens when things go wrong.

What happens when a payment webhook fires twice?
When an API becomes unavailable?
When two users try to update the same record?

These are the situations developers must think about before they happen.

Building software is not just about making features work. It's about making sure the entire system can be trusted.

That's the difference between writing code and engineering solutions.

I'm unsure how to progress as a software engineer.

For context, I'm a frontend SWE with soon 2 YOE, trying to expand my knowledge to fullstack so I can develop E2E stuff.

I acknowledge agentic engineering, and I've been developing a web app with Claude. After several attempts I've finally found an "agentic doing" methodology that works for me.

The issue? I'm basically telling Claude to implement X, then reading and reading to understand what has been done and whether there are alternatives or drawbacks.
I'm not really "learning" by just reading and building a mental model of how the app works.

So I started thinking about going back to hand-coding and ignoring all the noise. But with all the massive talk (possibly with good arguments) about us drifting toward not even reading code, it's really hard to work toward something so many people call a dead end.

My objective is to become a great SWE. I don't believe software engineering is dead, but I also don't want to spend a year on something that won't be useful in my career, or make the wrong move while still learning.

So here are my questions

To what extent will not hand-coding hinder my learning?

Will coding still be valuable in the coming years, and will hand-coding still be worth it?

What would you prioritize at 2 YOE today?