been the only dev on a backend service for about two years. finally sat down to write proper docs for it today.

found a try/except block in the job queue handler. catches one very specific exception type. does absolutely nothing with it -- no log, no reraise, no fallback. just silences it. there's no comment explaining why. no linked ticket. no slack thread I can dig up. git blame points to a commit message that says 'fix job queue issue' with no further detail.

I genuinely cannot reconstruct what I was protecting against.

if you work solo, please leave your future self a comment. even one line. it costs nothing. I am begging you.

Preface this by saying I have moral scrupulosity/ social judgment-related OCD, so there’s that lol

I see people on here still writing their code by hand; at my company we do not have that option unless we outright defy orders from our boss, which I assume would get you fired. I get a lot less satisfaction out of my work now, the code generation part is extremely mind numbing, I’m really sad about not getting to write code anymore. The planning/architecture phase can be kind of fun though.

Yes I am looking for a new job but the issue is (maybe I’m just a shitty developer but) I am genuinely like 10x faster with AI so if I do not use it, I would be consciously choosing to do a worse job, which also feels wrong and silly. I also hate admitting this but it has given me a lot of genuinely helpful suggestions and taught me new things. obviously sometimes it also does dumb things, but I do dumb things sometimes too. As obnoxious and eye rolling as it can be talking to Claude, “he” is genuinely that good when it comes to the types of things we are building.

In my personal life I do not use AI because I have a 100% HEAVILY anti AI social group, and I try to make ethical choices like I avoid beef, boycott Amazon/Spotify/Starbucks, etc. I feel like an impostor for not confessing to them that my entire job is to use AI all day now. Like for example last night a girl I know posted on her close friends about how she wants to murder people who use AI at work (hopefully being hyperbolic) and I have to hang out with this girl in a couple weeks…

my coworker has also refused to use it but for some reason my boss hasn’t talked to him about it yet. He’s just waiting to get fired. My therapist is making me do stuff like put an AI app on my home screen where someone could see it as homework. Maybe I should be posting this on the OCD sub but I really want to hear from other people going through this same dilemma.

I've been interested in this functionality (when a site detects your adblocker and kindly asks u to whitelist).

The only idea that comes to mind is setting a div in the layout with "ad" class or something similar, and then if a user has adblocker the adblocker would be removing this div from the dom. I don't think this would consistently work for every (or at least most of the popular) adblockers out there.

Edit: Electronic-Post12351 got was able to understand exactly what I was describing and offer a conclusive reason for the sudden breakage. It lines up with the exact behavior we've been experiencing. I really appreciate it!

My colleague and I are at a loss with what has suddenly broken our web based scheduling app that was written with PHP on the backend and Javascript on the front end.

The front end basically acts as a dynamic HTML based table that allows users to drag, drop, delete, and complete scheduling entries.

It is manually saved why taking a snapshot of the table in a jscn array and writing it to a SQL table on our database.

I spent a year, before the AI boom, writing this application myself and working out all of the bugs and inconsistencies.

I have debugging code out the ass, and know the application like the back of my hand

My last update was October of 2025 and it has ran fine with zero reported issues.

​Now suddenly this week in September 2026 it has utterly shit the bed with no discernible reason as to why.

Shit how, you may ask? Well elements are no longer dragging and dropping correctly on both Edge and Chrome. The dragging does work, and dropping throws an error because the dragged object in null.

Table column cell shifting and all of my movement functions have stopped working correctly, with no console errors at all.

It's as if my Javascript has just stopped workout correctly.

The biggest change has been a web server upgrade from Bullseye to Trixie, which involved upgrading Javascript and PHP to the newest stable versions.

However, this was maybe 3-4 weeks ago at this rate.

So perhaps the old Javascript was cached until recently?

I am at a loss. I've never seen things break with no indication as to why. I've been in web dev for 5 years now, and there's USUALLY a damn trail to follow.

At most restarting the browser via a manual reboot command seems to temporarily fix drag and drop functionality. Almost as though some corrupted cached file or setting is getting reset.

The html is building correctly, there are no backend bugs on our apache logs, and no sql issues upon saving.

Like why would dragging and dropping suddenly break in Chromium browsers? Did they push anything recently that bricked things?

I can't find anything indicating as such, and I am at a loss of how to debug this. It literally broke at 4pm on a Friday before this holiday weekend, and now I'm trying to get ahead of it before Tuesday.

Guys, this is my game dev account I made to post about our game and randomly chat on related topics.

It's annoying me so badly I had to join this sub and ask. It's the 11th hour at our job during busy season, and it would be an absolute pain in the ass to transition back to a giant excel sheet manually typing everything.

Any help, experience, or a point in the right direction would be a huge help.

Recently I had an idea for a research tool, I realized I'd need to be able to find websites programmatically and the webs data is behind the largest corporations, not something we reliably have access to for being able to develop around.

So it got me thinking, how lightweight could you first build a crawler if you only cared about getting meta data (titles, description and the url)? Then it got me thinking, could we not share the load, create a distributed peer to peer network and make this data decentralized?

So what I have built is the open web directory. A network that crawls and builds a yellow pages like directory for web pages online.

You can setup your own node and contribute to the network by simply running:

git clone https://github.com/idev-games/the-open-web-directory.git cd the-open-web-directory npm start 

And open port 80 for that device by port forwarding.

I think this is going to be a fascinating experiment, it's early days so expect bugs and issues but give it ago and let's see if we can index the web.

Check out more info here:

https://github.com/iDev-Games/The-Open-Web-Directory

The site listed on github is the live front end (you can host the html files in the public folder anywhere to open another frontend on the web).

Hello, I have been thinking about a project I‘d like to try out, where I have like a Database, an api server and a web server. It‘s not too large, and mostly to learn about how they all interact. The issue is, I would prefer not having to pay for multiple servers to host everything. Is there a way to simulate how it would be in real life on a single machine?

Hey guys, just after opinions really. If you’re launching a somewhat large site, with quite a bit of stuff going on, would you rely on your own testing or would you suggest getting a third party tester? It’s mostly for things like UX I’m wanting to test. I know have I would expect things to work but being the sole developer I think I may have gone a bit blind to somethings. I have friends do bits of pieces in terms of checking things but I wonder if the consensus would be to just get an actual tester to go through everything, testing the functionality all works, different variations, ensure the UX is as good as it can be etc or do you think I’m overthinking it?

so im working on my final year project report (pfe) (projet fin d'annee = Final year project which is literlly a big project to final my 6 years, in uni ) and i had to do the whole uml thing, use case diagram, class diagram, sequence diagrams for the main flows

and while i was doing it i kept asking myself, how do i actually know if what im drawing is "correct"

like the global logic of the app is obviously fixed, i know what the app does and how it should work, but when it comes to modeling it visually there are like ten different ways to represent the same thing. someone else looking at the same requirements could come up with a completely different class breakdown or a different way of grouping use cases, and technically neither version would be "wrong"

so when the jury reviews it, are they checking for one specific correct answer, or are they more just checking if your model is internally consistent and reflects a reasonable understanding of the system

anyone who's been through something similar, academic reviews, code reviews, whatever, how do you even validate a diagram when there's no single ground truth to compare it against

side note for context since some people outside the french education system might not know this, the PFE report is usually structured around sprints, like sprint 0 for environment setup, then sprint 1, 2, 3 etc each with its own objective and backlog, and for every single sprint you're expected to redo a use case diagram, a class diagram and sometimes sequence diagrams specific to that sprint

i pulled up an example report just to check and it had 6 sprints and something like 57 figures total, most of them being use case, class or sequence diagrams repeated per sprint. so its not like you draw one diagram for the whole app, you basically draw a mini version of the same three diagrams every sprint, which is part of why i started wondering how strict the "correctness" of each one actually needs to be

Does anyone know how to add completely secure video calls to a website? I’m struggling to find the best way.

Additionally, how do I then host this for free / as low cost as possible.

If anyone has advice that would be great!

Which hosting platform would you pick for a small production app: Render vs Railway vs Cloudflare Workers?

I’m building something like a inventory management app and website — authenticated users, a Node/TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, background jobs/cron, and potentially a few thousand users over time.

Currently considering **Render, Railway, and Cloudflare Workers**.

For a production app where reliability, scaling, DB latency, and predictable costs matter, which one would you choose and why?

Would you recommend something else like **Fly.io, AWS, or Vercel + another backend** instead?

Curious to hear from people who’ve actually run production workloads on these.

I'm looking for a workable solution or recommendations to provide a client's credentials to that client in the event of my untimely demise or absence. (E.g. hit by a bus - falling out and need to hand everything over, etc.) I also don't want to mix MY credentials with theirs.

So my primary work isn't webdev, but I do some for clients as part of my general services. Generally this means me building everything from scratch and leaving the client(s) out of the day-to-day management entirely.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to have their business' credentials saved, updated as they are changed, and set aside for if I get "hit by a bus" so they won't be locked out of everything.

I also don't want them "futzing" with things (because some of these clients have impulse control issues and would 100% give their credentials to someone on Fiver to update a paragraph on their website at 2am when I don't answer my phone.) So access while I'm not dead or fired isn't a real option.

I understand that I can make "organizations" in some of the password managers and have emergency hand-over to pre-selected people, but I work alone, and don't "have a lawyer" that can manage it for me.

A feature common to a great very many HTML boilerplates is this line:

html <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

The initial-scale=1.0 bit was present to fix an ancient issue on iPhones. When rotating the screen into a landscape orientation, the page would keep the same width as when it was in portrait, making everything appear very zoomed in.

This isn't an issue any more. I've tested it across very many devices, and it appears it was fixed in iOS 9, which released back in 2015. In addition to testing, I've consulted a great number of other professionals, and nobody has been able to find evidence of it being needed any longer.

You can safely simplify the meta viewport declaration down to:

html <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

It isn't hurting you to leave it there, but it is vestigial and unnecessary.

Further details: - https://vale.rocks/micros/20260902-1350 - https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0902-initial.html

I am considering building a family website for my family. My mother's extended family built one, but it's something nobody really ever visits. I'm considering building a wiki-style site (locked behind user accounts) to have a page for each family member, each nuclear family, and then they can build upon it and create pages for vacations and things like that. I would then have a mini social feed for us each to share pages we've created. For example, my sister might say "Just made a page for our Disney Land 2026 trip! Here's the link."

Might be overscoped, but I thought it'd be a fun way to start capturing family stories.

If you've built a family site for your family (or someone else's) what did it have? What purpose did it serve and what features were built into it?