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Full Stack Developer by frank in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] frank@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I used to work as a full stack developer 😢

Voterr - Democratize Your Movie Nights by frank in c/plex@lemmy.ml

[-] frank@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The project is open source and the repository is here: https://github.com/wheresfrank/voterr

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Voterr - Democratize Your Movie Nights (voterr.tv)

submitted 3 weeks ago by frank@lemmy.world to c/plex@lemmy.ml

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I'm an unemployed software developer with some time to make things I've wanted to exist.

I just released a web app that lets you log in with your Plex account which imports the movies available in your library, create a voting session, and invite friends to vote on movies. When a movie gets votes from all your friends in the session, it is declared the winner and the session creator will get a link to open the movie in Plex.

I was tired of endlessly scrolling through my movie library whenever it was time to pick a movie. I think this will help.

Here are some screenshots

Dashboard

Voting Session

Check it out if you like the idea. You can reply here or DM if you run into any issues or have any ideas.

Some of my ideas for the next features to add:

Filter by watched/unwatched
Select genres for the voting session
Make popcorn

What Was Your Experience Being Laid Off? by frank in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] frank@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I was with a SaaS company for 5 years. It was my first job in software. I busted my ass and worked my way up. I ended up managing the support department while leaning how to code in my spare time. I move to Engineering and was a developer for two years.

The company had a great culture and I was genuinely proud to work there.

Then a growth equity firm came in. They said they weren't going to change the "magic" we had and were just there to give us the tools and expertise to grow. That is when the steady erosion of our company culture began.

The third CE0 since I've been there took over a few months ago. Of course he promised there would be no layoffs and he didn't see a need to change anything. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I was getting panicked messages from coworkers saying they were getting let go and then I saw the 15-minute meeting with my department head on my calendar.

When the dust settled, the first layoffs at our company were over. A third of our engineering department was gone and our work was being outsourced to an outside firm.

Now I'm looking for work and it seems really daunting. My wife is self-employed and lost her biggest client that made up 80% of her income right before I got laid off. I got 4 weeks of severance initially, but I was able to negotiate 8 weeks.

Now I'm reaching out to my network, applying to as many jobs as I can find, building more portfolio projects to pad my GitHub account, and believing things will work out so I don't have a complete nervous breakdown.

I don't recommend it. Don't be laid off.

“May have just legalized murder by one individual”: Experts alarmed at “stunning” SCOTUS ruling by frank in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

And this goes back and forth until there are 100s on the Supreme Court

How big is your desk? by frank in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] frank@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I have a KVM switch so I can control my array of computers with one monitor setup. I have a normal desk and a big closet to house all the computers.

ALAT. by frank in c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] frank@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I was thinking the same. Let me interview non-management members of the team to see what working there is really like.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco by frank in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

When the AI revolts, this will be an example of provocation in its manifesto.

Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage by frank in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My two take aways from the article

I need to find a way to invest in VPNs somehow
I need to see what comes up when you search for "sex dick"

A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? by frank in c/workreform@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

TL; DR We're making a lot of money, but we could be making more if we fuck over 120,000 people that built the thing that is making money.

Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it is how difficult it is to observe and monitor employees by frank in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I managed a support team of about 30 people at a fully remote company. I'd check their numbers of closed cases, review cases when customer feedback was bad, and take into account any other side projects they were working on.

Praise when people did good and have one on one talks with people that were falling behind to see what the cause was so we could work on it. It's not that hard.

I started pirating movies again after a decade by frank in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] frank@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I pay for a seed box that is powerful enough to run a Plex server and comes with 8TB of storage for a little more than a Netflix subscription. I'll stick with that.

Linux terminal users be like by frank in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] frank@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is there a MacOS versión of this? Asking for a friend.