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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762154

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Built as a single-user web app with async task queues for background yt-dlp downloads. Key features: - Handles playlists, embeds, direct URLs via yt-dlp (500+ sites) - Auto-detects audio/video; optional ffmpeg transcoding - Multi-language UI/subtitles (i18n docs in repo) - Extractive summarization from subtitles - One-click bookmarklet for ingestion - Admin CLI/web UI for management - Demo: https://demo.stashcast.dgt.is/ (demo/demo backwards; read-only)

Motivation: Friends send random podcast eps/YouTube vids. I want to watch them all, but later when I have time (and may be offline).

Repo: https://github.com/jonocodes/stashcast

Feedback welcome on UX, yt-dlp edge cases, or self-host scaling!

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I do think the type of projects have indeed changed however, so maybe OP is looking in the wrong place, or has become steeped in the corporate world (see Middle Aged).

Look at app stores, f-droid, vscode plugins, github repos, frontend frameworks, distributed databases, Linux desktops, TUI apps, text editors. There are more projects than ever. They may not be as low level or as widely used as system kernels or programming languages, but there is so much code being written for personal needs.

I actually think the fact that these are not widely used is important. Higher level constructs and AI have made programming much more accessible. Non-devs are making one off apps just for their family. Or using LLMs to quickly churn out scripts to automate home assistant or common desktop tasks.

I personally have built several projects from my long-running ideas list that I never would have had time to do before without the help of AI. Savr is one (https://github.com/jonocodes/savr). For someone like me who has built that same CRUD interface for every company, AI has been an amazing motivator to work on new interesting things and less repetitive drudgery.

I started working on this over a year ago. This is my third re-write. First was in Kotlin, then Expo, then Tanstack. I've been loving building PWAs, especially local first ones. Savr has a long way to go, but I have been dogfooding it for a while and I hope to get some feedback from yall.

See the code design at https://github.com/jonocodes/savr

Use the app at https://savr.link/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301581

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I am a senior/staff software engineer with 20 years of experience and who would be considered a top performer. Quick wittedness is something I rely on but technical thinking is always slow. White board interviews are nearly impossible. So finding work is ROUGH.

I wouldn't call my self the class clown, but I am often the first one to crack a joke and people look to me for lighthearted fun. I often hope this will save me in interviews as I rely on my past work and personality are my strong traits. All of the jobs I got through this, or from a personal referral. Never through a technical interview.

My way of coping with this has always been to work more hours then everyone else. It helps that I am also more passionate about what I am working on then those around me. I work on open source in my free time, while my co-workers have barely heard of Linux. If it were not for my love of the craft, I be miserable in this industry.

I first noticed this all when I was a kid and started taking more advanced classes. I’d have to take copious notes and deeply review them after class to make sure I knew what was going on. While my friends would listen once and ace the tests. I was also always behind on reading speed since I had to read things 2 or 3 times before the words really registered in my brain.

As a side note, I recently worked with a real version of the oh-so mythical 10x programmer. And he was a college intern! Running loops around the rest of us at our startup. He was doing the work of several of us older programmers. I think most of it was do to his 0-friction processing of information. Read, assimilate, code. Interesting to watch. They do exist.

I would just prefer to not have to public expose a service for a single user. In my case when sharing an image server to family it has been easy enough to walk them through installing tailscale on their windows desktop that they use. I love adding friends and fam to my tailnet. It then also makes it easier to log in and troubleshoot their issues later too.

It looks like CFs solution for restricted public access is CF access controll, but thats still publicly exposed. Their non-public option is WARP, but that requires installation on the client machine. At that point your user setup is even harder then tailscale.

Here is a good recap of the current players. https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape

All data is stored entirely on your device, and you have the option to sync it to your own storage provider like dropbox. This means you don't need to have the technical know-how to setup and maintain a server.

Its not usable yet, as I have rewritten it several times, but in the current iteration it is a client side PWA, so cross platform. Just started a new job so had to take a break for a bit.

Follow if you are interested (I need to update the Readme): https://github.com/jonocodes/savr