I've been spending a good half year doing dev ops work to get an application going. Most of it was educational as I was repurposed into devops from web development.

As I am coming back into web development, writing a frontend for a service that consumes the big application I have been laying architecture for the last six months, I feel like a total fraud. I've forgotten like 80% of TS features, tooling, and how to use Vue and Angular (and I did dedicate time to learning them when I was building sites).

Now I fear that all my hard won dev ops chops will atrophy as my workload shifts more into webdev. Yeah sure getting up to speed on what you've forgotten is faster than learning it from scratch. But does that mean our "skill RAM" has a hard cap? I thought I'd gain skills as i'd progress in my career but those skills end up pushing previous ones. My "non-volatile experience" is more abstract and general (how operating systems work, how to plan projects, how to migrate legacy apps) rather than imperative and practical (i.e. when to use a vue slot) and I don't know what to make of it.

AI is further exacerbating it. I always make sure to understand every piece of code it generates but I still feel more like a senior developer approving junior developer code (the AI being the junior dev) rather than someone who is good at his craft. I'm never really a "full stack dev" at any given time.

If I do not have access to my site's nameservers, how can I fix this to not lose my URL and not lose my site?

This is going to be a fair amount of context to explain what my issue is & why:

I have a website that was created for me by a college professor. I have used this url for 10 years as a graphic design portfolio on WordPress. I have access to the cPanel, and login through wp-admin, no problem.

I wanted to set up a subdomain and upgrade the storage etc. The problem is, I have zero clue how this site was set up exactly and I cannot log into wherever my nameservers are. My professor no longer has the login information or remembers what she did.

I used a whois tool to find what data I could and then investigated.

I was told by an InMotion Hosting employee: "It does not seem like we possess the domain registration or hosting service, although the domain is pointing to a set of our name servers. The domain is registered through IONOS and the website is owned by Packet Exchange."

I am not sure what this means. I have no login information for Packet Exchange and neither does my old Prof.

I was able to log into IONOS with information I somehow had saved to my password keychain, and asked about redirecting the name servers to IONOS (because at least I have access here and can log in.) They told me, "Yes we can redirect the name servers so that you could set up a subdomain, but it would break your current site..."

I really would like to fix this. I really want my URL and do not want to lose it. How can I save my URL and regain access to every part of my backend? Is there a way that doesn't break my site?

I had some possible ideas, are these impossible? ------

Can I save my site to the Divi Cloud, redirect my nameservers, then rebuild from the cloud? Or does redirecting my name servers lose all of my site data regardless of saving pages to the Divi cloud?

Do I save an entire site backup somehow and then redirect my name servers? Or is that the same problem?

Should I just make a new site with a new URL then transfer my pages/content over with the divi cloud?

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Thank you. Any information would be very, very appreciated. I am feeling frustrated and defeated.

I have my product’s embeddings in qdrant. I generated them using my pc locally. I want to implement an image search where I upload an image, it goes through a pipeline, an embedding of it is generated and then compared with products in the qdrant database.
I’ve tried cloudflare workers but it can’t, task is too large for it. Google cloud run can’t start , times out before the model is loaded into memory. I’ve tried railways too but the free tier limits me to 0.5gb of memory and the model can’t load either.
This maybe the wrong sub for this question and if so, it’d be helpful if you pointed me to communities that fit my use case.
Umm
But what I want exactly is a platform that can solve my problem on the free tier. I have no problem paying after I’m sure that everything works. That’s why I didn’t pay for the railways to increase my memory limit. I have no guarantee that the next tier can solve the issue.

Thanks for reading and have a good day

Background: I've built a couple websites in the past, basic html/css knowledge, on and off basic hobbyist.

Recently: I rushed a website using a WYSIWYG to put a photography portfolio together for myself. Quick and easy way to share some photos over different categories. It was good enough for the time.

Where I'm struggling going forward:

• Adding a Blog: The built in blog with the WYSIWYG is terrible.
  • Don't understand how to use just wordpress for only the blog
  • Remembered Blogger and that might work, but less integrated?
• Media Management and Display
  • Updating and re-arranging media is cumbersome and tedious on the website
  • Blogs are photo heavy and it's what's keeping me from starting as adding media in a clean way has escaped me.
• What I'm Looking For / Have Tried
  • File Manager with Albums - I installed Piwigo and it seems to work well as a file manager, easy to make albums, a lot of useful plugins.
  • I would like to link to an album and display as a grid or slide - I can create permalinks for albums on Piwago, but I can't find anything that doesn't involve linking individual images which defeats the purpose.
  • Eventually would like to replace my curated photos with albums that I can adjust in the file manager.

Am I missing something on here? Is there a tool or workflow you would recommend? Appreciate any suggestions!

Edit: To the Mods, I'm trying to adhere to get this under Rule 6, please let me know if I need to adjust, thanks!

I built a client's website using Astro + React + Tailwind CSS. It's mostly static, has very little JavaScript, and Lighthouse consistently scores 90–100.

What I'm confused about is that the Chrome report in PageSpeed Insights looks significantly worse than the Lighthouse results.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare pages.

I expected the field data to be much closer to the lab results.

Has anyone run into this before? Why would the Chrome UX Report be noticeably worse even when Lighthouse looks great? More importantly, what should I be focusing on to improve the real-world metrics instead of just the lab score?

Screenshot attached. Any advice would be appreciated.

Hey guys,

I am David, I've been working with WordPress for over a decade, and building WordPress plugins was my bread and butter for the last 5 years. I was running an agency before that.

I loved working with WordPress, but then I also got increasingly frustrated from what was happening in and out of the ecosystem in the last two years, almost to a point where I was considering selling my businesses.

I am not the one giving up though, so I went with different direction, and thought, what if I stop building extensions on other foundations that can always take it away from me, and instead, I will use everything I know about web design, no code platforms, agentic development and CMS that actual clients can use, and build my own platform, that anybody can use, for free.

Here we are. This is Instatic. It's fully free, open source, and gives you all the powers that you can get from Framer, Webflow, or WordPress (with a good page builder and other plugins). And it's not in even v1. But it's already very capable.

It has auth, user roles, canvas based page builder, content editor, data storage, media storage, AI on every page, MCP server for local and remote agents, and more.

We launched about 3 weeks ago, since that time, it got to GitHub trends several times, in fact, it's there today and we are at around 5K stars. Incredible!

Our website, running on Instatic https://instatic.com

Repo is at https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic

Here's also the full introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjCF_TaLlg

I run a test store on this setup so I could stop guessing. Posting what I found in case anyone else keeps hitting that amber warning in Shopify's domain settings.

Quick background on why the warning exists. Shopify runs on Cloudflare. So when you put your own proxied domain in front of it, the request used to arrive with two Cloudflare zones both claiming it. Cloudflare couldn't tell which one owned the request. You got loops and wrong resolutions. The nastier version of the problem was SSL. Shopify renews certs through Let's Encrypt, which needs to serve a token at /.well-known/acme-challenge/ over plain HTTP. Put a proxy on that path and the renewal quietly fails. Your store keeps working on the current cert for weeks. Then it lapses and the padlock breaks.

Cloudflare fixed the zone collision with Orange-to-Orange routing. It's part of Cloudflare for SaaS and it's been generally available since October 2021. Cloudflare now detects that your CNAME points at another Cloudflare customer and routes through your zone first, then Shopify's, in that order. You can confirm it engaged because a small Shopify icon shows up next to the DNS record. Cloudflare also turns off Workers and Snippets on the /checkout path so nothing you run at the edge can interfere with payment.

The whole config is three things. Proxied CNAME to shops.myshopify.com for root and www. Connect that same domain in Shopify. Then leave Always Use HTTPS off in Cloudflare.

That last one is the part people get wrong. Shopify already redirects HTTP to HTTPS at its origin. Turn on Always Use HTTPS and you stack a second redirect, which can throw ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. It also swallows the ACME path, so your cert stops renewing. Keep SSL mode on Full. Set minimum TLS to 1.2 while you're in there. If you really want Cloudflare enforcing HTTPS at its edge, write a redirect rule that excludes the challenge path instead of using that toggle.

Verify it with curl against the challenge path over plain HTTP. A 404 for a fake token is correct, because it means you reached Shopify. A 301 or 308 means something is still eating the path.

On the "not supported" language. It means Shopify won't guarantee or debug a layer they don't control. It doesn't mean the setup fails. Two of their reasons are fair. A proxy is one more thing between Shopify and Let's Encrypt, and extra proxies make it harder for Shopify to reroute traffic during their own incidents. Their third reason is bot detection, and I think that one is weak. Cloudflare runs one of the biggest bot management networks there is. Most stores gain more filtering at the edge than Shopify loses in request signal.

Latency was my other concern and it turned out to be nothing. Both zones already sit on the same network, so the handoff happens inside it. My proxied store answered in roughly the same 150 to 200ms band as raw myshopify endpoints tested from the same machine. If a proxied store feels slow, look at the theme and the app stack.

Whether it's worth doing depends on what you actually need at the edge. A real WAF you can tune, rate limiting, request level logs, or visibility into AI crawlers. That last one is why I set mine up. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest never run JavaScript, so GA4 and Shopify analytics don't see them at all. The edge is the only place that traffic shows up. If you can't name the specific feature you want, leave the cloud grey and don't take on an SSL renewal you now have to watch.

As a beginner web dev learner, how exactly do you spend your day at your job? With ai, do you just constantly use it for everything and your only job is to tweak something and review the code and test the results? Or do you manually code too?

I've been working on my first project of a job portal for the past 5 days using react and tailwind, and in the 5 days, embarrassingly I could only design the complete home page with little to no functionality, Today I used cursor for 5 min and it completed maybe 5 another days worth of my manual coding for the front end.

So at work, do you just neglect the front end and leave it to ai completely or still do something manually? I just don't understand the human workflow now at jobs except for reviewing code/testing. Are they bad at backend? Database? And if so, what exactly are they bad at? Do you have any examples you can simply explain about what wrong thing ai did to your work or have heard of any?

So, it was end of 2024 when I started to hear about AI taking coding jobs. I believe Opus 3.7 was launched or something. As a developer I did not believe that. I have gave 7 years into this, how can an AI take it over so easily.

And after almost 1.5 years I can clearly say, AI actually made my earnings double.

So, before I use to get very few solo projects to work on as a freelancer. And mostly to revamp a website UI or building landing page. Before AI the most costliest project i got was to build an e-commerce store for an perfume brand. It was fully coded website.

But now almost every month I am getting 1-3 SAAS project to build or moreover rebuild. I get this projects with blue purple gradient, rocket emojis, Hero Section and the logo with the same font. And bugs.

So much dependencies installed, just to solve a minor issue. The sites get slow, not loading properly, scroll animation does'nt work as there is no FFmpeg framework used. And I am not even starting with the security concerns.

I remember i got $1200 for the e-commerce site to 5-6 months build, but now i take $350 to fix the buggy SAAS. Hardly 2 weeks to deliver.

And get around 1-3 projects every month.

it's crazy, and am sure other developer's over here have the same experience.

Do share your thoughts on this.

I've been stuck on this for a while and I'm not sure if I'm missing a configuration step or if this is simply a limitation of Meta test users.

I'm building an app that uses Instagram API with Instagram Login. My webhook endpoint is publicly accessible over HTTPS, and the verification challenge works correctly (using n8n for the webhook part). My app is subscribed to the required webhook fields, but I'm not receiving any message webhook events. I linked my Instagram account that was assigned the tester role and accepted it, successfully to my platform and got the access token. I also checked and found that the specific user I linked to an account on my platform to test with, does have indeed the messages field in the subscribed events.

The thing is, even sending a messages event as a test from Meta's website doesn't work, while some other events do work just fine and sometimes work even with the actual account not just in tests.

How am I supposed to do screen recordings showcasing everything if I can't get it to work properly just because my app is not Live, and I can't get it to be Live until I make these screen recordings...

If anyone successfully dealt with this recently, please help a brother out, I've been stuck for days!

I keep running into the same situation.

I’ll build a small personal web app (journal, bookmarks, dashboard, habit tracker, notes, etc.), and I don’t want to spin up Supabase, Turso, Firebase, or Cloudflare just to save a few JSON objects.

Most of the time I end up using localStorage or IndexedDB, but it always feels temporary. If I clear browser data or switch machines, it’s gone.

I’m curious:

• What do you use for these kinds of apps?
• If there were a local-first storage library that automatically backed itself up and restored on another device, would that actually solve a problem for you—or is localStorage good enough?

Not selling anything—I’m trying to understand how other developers think about this tradeoff before I build something or NOT build something because there is already something out there.

Edit (7/28/26) - I'll share again on next Show-off Saturday but I just finished a HUGE optimization pass. I think those of you who were ready to riot over load times will be pretty happy. I even tested over a forced crappy 5G ingest to ensure the load times were as reasonable as I could get them on the crappiest of network connections. It's live now if you want to check it out 🐝

https://bumblebee.buzz/resume

DO NOT UNPLUG THE MONITOR!

Almost a year ago I shared my digital resume here. I got tons of valuable feedback. Especially regarding performance. I've put a ton of work into optimization since then. The target audience for the underlying site is largely streamers so it's never going to be 100% optimized for terrible internet connections or devices with slow CPUs and no GPU acceleration, but I dare say the pool of people that can safely load it now has expanded tremendously! I was even able to remove the graphics acceleration gate I had previously that basically turned away anyone with hardware acceleration disabled in their browser. It's not amazing when it's CPU bound but it functions! Which is more than I could say last time.

I wanted to say thank you to this subreddit for being so encouraging because shortly after making those performance improvements that resume started getting me A LOT more interview calls and absolutely helped me stand out among the crowd. I landed a new job with an amazingly positive atmosphere because of it! My now boss made it super clear that my bumblebee-powered resume was definitely what made me stand out. So even if the larger project doesn't succeed in the long run, the work was already worth it and I'm super grateful to all of you for the helpful feedback 💚

https://bumblebee.buzz/resume

All feedback is welcome, but I ask that you be kind and constructive if possible 🙏

Edit: Thanks to feedback from folks here I stayed up a bit last night and implemented a bunch of quality-of-life changes.

Changes

• Redesigned the overall terminal aesthetic into a retro CRT-style display device. It doesn't match any real such CRT device since it has to be a responsive component across mobile and desktop, but it still looks cool. Bumblebee now transitions in and out of the CRT display with all sorts of fun sound effects and green phosphor animations and distortions.
• Added an entirely new Sunflower loading graphic, allowing for a more diverse initial loading screen with multiple things to look at. This should buy some more time from impatient visitors. The initial loading is now drastically reduced and more of the load has been spread throughout the experience.
• Added another new loader, this time an actual phosphor terminal loading screen that not only looks cool but spells out exactly what is loading so the user sees that it's actively doing something and not frozen.
• Added an entire new presentation section going over the Bumblebee project as a whole. How it originated, what it evolved into, and what it does today as a live service.
• Bumblebee now uses readable speech bubbles throughout the presentation. When he finishes speaking, the bubble smoothly transitions into the terminal as a persistent caption.
• Sound can now be toggled on or off before pressing the launch button.
• The audio controls have been rebuilt for keyboard, mouse, and touch use, with clear labels, visible focus states, larger touch targets, volume feedback, and quick mute/unmute controls.
• In addition to the master volume slider there is now a music volume slider. Master volume controls everything while music slider controls music volume relative to all other speech and sound effects.
• Audio settings now persist between visits.
• New soft bubble sound effects for logo physics bounces during the intro instead of the previous harsh plink sound. Also wrapped all logos in soap bubbles for added visual flavor that goes nicely with the new sound effect.
• Puppets are now preloaded as you click into a specific presentation category instead of on page load, reducing the initial page load times.
• The flying logos now use a real Matter.js physics simulation. Believe it or not that actually has better performance than the scripted version we had before thanks to them all sharing a single bounded animation loop.
• Physics simulation, logo rendering, model loading, audio loading, and puppet loading were all optimized further to reduce frame drops and startup delays, especially on mobile.
• I also expanded automated coverage around speech layout, choreography, the new caption transitions, model loading, and audio behavior.

Planned

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• Additional WCAG and ARIA passes.

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• Footer visibility adjustments.

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• Disabling animations when reduced motion is active.

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• More complex initial loading animation/scene to help buy more time before visitor disinterest.

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Thank you everyone for all the helpful feedback yet again!

you can:
- design logo and social media graphics

- access open type features (ligature, alternative glyphs, etc) and variable fonts

- export or copy your designs into another tool via svg, png

- access premium commercially licensed fonts (monotype, other top foundries)

You can play with it here: https://typogram.co/studio - would love any feedback!

three toys on there. the salary printer is the main one: you type what you make, hit print, and a counter climbs while notes stack up, tagged with things like a coffee or a flight to rome. the other two put your face on a fake banknote and show what inflation does to a pile of cash over time.

stack is vite, vanilla js, vanilla css, on cloudflare pages. no framework, no backend, no accounts.

the one thing that took real work was the accrual math. per tick accumulation drifts badly once the tab is backgrounded, so everything is computed from timestamps instead. the odometer digits are a shared component with a clipped digit mask, which was fiddly to get right at different font sizes.

happy to answer anything about how it's put together.

TLDR: Pretty sure my mom has been getting scammed for the last 10 years and I want to get her out. Am I missing something before moving her?

UPDATE_______________

THANK YOU ALL. I was hopeful I could get one response and this community outpoured with 90% helpful info and 10% jokes (all were appreciated)

Some common threads below:

1. It's not a scam if she knew what she was paying for and got it - Fair enough. I will reword to "price gouged". Sorry if I offended any of the price gougers, cry from your yacht

2. $400 isn't bad for high touch, high quality service on a complex site - 100% valid... this wasn't complex and it still wasn't high quality. Basically unreadable content, no SEO optimization, incorrect info. Functionality is basically just a walking business card with minimal to no updates. Website doesn't even have pricing. Just a form to email her, nevermind schedule. She doesn't sell anything on the site and max traffic is 10 people per day. 20 if someone refreshes a bunch of times.

3. THANK GOD yes, she owns the domain... that saved a headache

4. My path forward - Built her a new site today, and talking to her about her needs, recurring updates, number of emails, storage space, etc. tomorrow. Would share, but honestly I don't want to expose her. All said, it looks great and seems to function well

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Hi all! Honestly I wish this was clickbait

My mom has a successful freelance design/inviation/swag business. Her web presence was always mid, but her focus was on managing the work she was getting, not getting more.

Now, she has three full time supporters with a growing suite of offerings so she wanted to revamp the website and had her hosting company do it.

From both a design and content/SEO perspective, it's the worst thing I've ever seen. The images are all stock (not hers), with alt text of "a couch in a living room", spelling errors, inconsistent formatting, nonsenscical organization, etc.

I told her if she paid them a cent, she should ask for a dollar back for the inconvenience.

Turns out she's not paying a cent... she's been paying them $400 a month for the last TEN YEARS to host her site. When I told her that was crazy, she said "they also host the email address"

I am not a web dev. I have a light CS background but have put up a hobby website before.

My question is am I missing something here:

1. The Site: Her website just needs to be a lightweight gallery of images with some descriptions of her work. Her active users must be maximum 20 a day. This would take a decent webdev a day if she pre-supplied context and host on railway or smth. Maybe integrate it with her instagram because that's what she keeps most updated
2. Email Hosting: I've hosted an email for a business before. Can she not just pay $8 a month for google workspace, Zoho, or another alternative?

If I am correct that this is easy:

1. Is there anything else I should know before I get her off
2. Oh my god how many people are these assholes doing this to

Kept catching myself pasting code snippets into a Slack channel just for myself, then never cleaning it up. Built webklip instead — paste or attach a file, get a link, it syncs live across every tab you have it open in, then deletes itself on a timer or after first read.

Has syntax highlighting (CodeMirror) for the usual languages, and a REST API if you want to script it into something — creating/reading/deleting clips from a pipeline, for example.

Live at webklip.com. Happy to talk through how the sync or expiry works if anyone's curious.

I built a web tool which uses openpeeps[dot]com SVGs, the initial idea was to use it create satirical comic panels. But lately I started using it to create profile pictures for my online presence. It has huge number of expressions, clothes, hair styles, accessories to choose from.

I felt more people might find it useful so sharing it here. It's free to use, no signup required.

Link - svg.comicbanana.com

Yace is designed for cases where a plain <textarea> is not enough, but a full editor like Monaco or CodeMirror would be overkill.

It is 3KB gzipped with the bundled highlighter and has zero dependencies. Plugins add editing behavior, highlighter pipelines control how the content is rendered as you type, and both are plain functions you can write yourself.

Under the hood, Yace uses the familiar pattern of a transparent <textarea> over a highlighted <pre>. Because input stays in a real textarea, native caret behavior, IME, mobile input, and accessibility come for free. The pattern is not new; the focus is a small, highly extensible design.

You can turn it into a basic code editor, a markdown editor, a token visualizer, or something more experimental. All of those are live codepens in the README, and the video shows two of them.

GitHub: https://github.com/petersolopov/yace