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My Favorite Software Subreddits
- jdsleppy 5y agoMy favorite is https://www.reddit.com/r/experienceddevs https://www.reddit.com/r/experienceddevs It's more focused on the people/team/organization/career side. There are zero blog articles and zero newbie questions.
- tomschlick 5y ago/r/homelab will lead you down a dark path for your wallet of buying used enterprise gear and self hosting tons of docker based services. I regret nothing.
- actually_a_dog 5y agor/DataHoarder is practically guaranteed to take you down a similar path, as well. You have been warned.
- tomschlick 5y agoI have a bunch of shucked 10TB drives in an array in my rack because of that sub.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- menmob 5y agoCan confirm, after acquiring a 42U rack and a costly power bill.
- retro_guy 5y agoYeah, r/retroprogramming is not a very active sub... Check out r/retrogamedev
- codetrotter 5y agoI know you said no language specific subreddits but. r/rust and r/rust_gamedev There are some non-language specific ones I like too though. r/IndieDev r/gamedev r/gameenginedevs r/Demoscene r/MediaSynthesis
- _newtype 5y agoIronically enough, I tend to find more useful rust snippets in r/rustjerk than in the official r/rust sub.
- mamcx 5y agoYeah, the rust Reddit is to me, the #1 reason I stick with Rust when I think I will not survive it! The amount of helpful answers is outstanding, and is self-reinforcing: I try to participate on it every time I can. Other reddit I enjoy a lot is r/ProgrammingLanguages/.
- eatonphil 5y ago/r/programminglanguages is second on the list! :)
- eatonphil 5y agoYeah I imagine there are some good game subreddits! I just am not into that scene so can't comment. Thanks for sharing!
- shafinsiddique 5y ago+1 for r/emudev. Amazing community, and was a huge help to me when i was building my first gameboy emulator. https://github.com/shafinsiddique/alchemy https://github.com/shafinsiddique/alchemy
- mattgreenrocks 5y agoTo the author: thank you for this, I’ve mostly given up on aggregators for surfacing deep technical content. Looks like I was wrong.
- joefarish 5y agoIf people are looking to find more niche subreddits related to their other interests I've found this page https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ to be quite useful.
- mopierotti 5y agoI've also found this one to be useful. Sometimes this site will give better results than the other and vice-versa. https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/ https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/
- odonnellryan 5y ago/r/sysadmin is not a software sub but is generally a good sub for discussion in the tech space with a focus on sysadmin and DevOps. It also gives you an alternative perspective on a lot of things. A lot of the people there are also programmers from my take.
- mattwad 5y agoI like /r/programmerhumor, good stuff to share w/my team sometimes.
- RivieraKid 5y agoWhat are your favourite lesser-known subreddits on any topic?
- malshe 5y agoI like r/datasets (https://old.reddit.com/r/datasets/ https://old.reddit.com/r/datasets/). Found some really nice datasets there.
- eatonphil 5y agoWere these not lesser-known enough for you? :)
- adrianmonk 5y agoMaybe they weren't any-topic enough.
- eatonphil 5y agoAh true, I missed that.
- Waterluvian 5y agoI find Reddit to be insufferable when dealing with code, simply because of how terrible a job it does with code. But many of the communities are vibrant and helpful, despite the less than ideal venue. Discord on the other hand is phenomenal.
- shagie 5y agoIt does a poor job with code... but I would contend that most of the terrible job that it does is because people don't know how to (or refuse to) pay reasonable attention to what the format of their code is when one looks at the page. A lot of it is a "copy and paste the code and walk away" - not really caring about how it looks when the page is rendered. With Discord (and slack and even teams) the ability to paste a code is easier because rich text gets pasted as rich text and there's also even more advanced "collapsible code snippets". And so... out of the "reddit's terrible job with code" I only attribute 25% of that to Reddit itself and 75% to the "people aren't caring about their post."
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWhy should everyone have to spend time formatting code for reddit that looked perfectly fine in whatever editor it was copied from? Why can’t reddit just display code properly?
- Jtsummers 5y agoEven HN requires some minimal effort if you want to post code in a way that looks decent. Prefixing lines with 2-4 extra spaces is easy in most decent text editors, and if you don't have a decent text it's not hard to do manually.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoI find it painful, since I do most of my HN and Reddit from my phone. I write code this way directly from mobile with enough frequency…the main feature I long for is to be able to type code fences with backtick. Monofaced fonts would be nice, too, so that you could be sure that you’re on the right indentation level as you tap something in.
- iratewizard 5y agoYou self-promote your blog too much.
- smt88 5y agoIt's very common for people to write an article and share it themselves here. Many of the most-loved HN posts of all time are self-posted articles. How is it different from Show HN? In this case, there's no financial gain here. It's just an enthusiastic sharing with other enthusiasts. That's among the best things HN does.
- iratewizard 5y agoDirectly from the rules: > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. Look at his submissions and judge for yourself if it's "occasional"
- NmAmDa 5y agoI joined reddit just because of r/selfhosted.
- sieabahlpark 5y agoYeah for amateur takes on how to host anything. More than a few times you see people say to just use managed services and post their "homer homepage" theme. It's not really a good subreddit.
- mmphosis 5y agoI put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoI put teddit.net in place of reddit.com.
- tgv 5y agoI run https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit in a container, and use localhost:9999.
- gjm11 5y agoVisiting teddit.com takes me, via a series of redirects, to something serving up spammy-looking advertisements. Curiously, if I do the same with the Firefox dev tools open, that doesn't happen; instead I just get an empty page. Maybe taking a valid reddit URL and replacing "reddit" with "teddit" produces something useful; I didn't try. But I'm not much inclined to trust this site.
- NoNotTheDuo 5y agoThat’s because the replacement is teddit.net instead of teddit.com
- gjm11 5y agoD'oh! I am a moron. Thank you.
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- mixedCase 5y agoIf you're logged in, having old reddit be the default without the need for a different subdomain is just a setting.
- eco 5y ago/r/beneater is a nice companion to Ben Eater's YouTube channel. It's mostly people helping others build their 8-bit CPUs and others showing off their improvements and extensions.
- shepherdjerred 5y agohttps://eater.net/ https://eater.net/
- devwastaken 5y agoDon't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothing. Only go into it with the expectation that this is like any other image board. Make new accounts, use vpn's, else a mod will cry and reddit corporate will treat you you as a felon regardless.
- civilized 5y agoThis is very sad to hear. I haven't been on Reddit much in the past few years, but I still appreciated the unique, often well-moderated communities I knew of back in the day.
- eatonphil 5y agoFor what it's worth, I do not share GPs experience. I shared this list because these are good, quality subs period.
- throwawaysea 5y agoThis. I have tried reporting mod ban abuse, which you can do if you look hard enough through the help pages. I gave them all the evidence needed to show the mods were violating Reddit’s own policies around arbitrary bans. However I only ever got a form response that shows Reddit doesn’t care. At this point I am convinced Reddit just needs to die and get replaced by something better.
- devwastaken 5y agoI have had subreddit mods openly call me all manner of inflamatory names, stalk me, and harass me in general. Sometimes those powermods get removed by contacting the lead mod if they're still around, but powermods know this and will hide the mod list, remove the post(s), and handle all the reports. So to other mods and users it looks like nothing happened at all. Reddit is the least transparent platform, it's designed for censorship and abuse, even.
- atombender 5y agoIs there a good sub or discussion board for the design and implementation of complex backend app architectures that need to operate at scale? By complex I mean something beyond just CRUD. I'm thinking of consensus systems, transactional systems, queuing systems, distributed locking, sharding techniques — but also just practical engineering stuff, like which off-the-shelf tools to pick for certain problems. For example, recently I ran into something where an app needs to send a certain volume of telemetry data to BigQuery, but buffering the outgoing data in memory isn't possible, because BQ ingest is slow enough that the processes would OOM; but also, because it must be possible to kill the app without losing the data. Turns out even Google Pub/Sub can't handle the volume. Writing to Postgres would work, but now we're talking about writing a whole little app with a schema just for some short-lived linear data. Must be a solved problem? But the best solution I found was to send the data to RedPanda and then have a simple little consumer ingest it into BQ asynchronously. When I had this question, I realized I had nobody to bounce ideas back and forth with. Stack Overflow doesn't have the right people (in my experience), and "Ask HN" doesn't get any replies because people don't seem to watch that space for new threads. Another problem I ran into the other day, which I still don't have a solution to, is spinning up end-to-end integration tests on Kubernetes. There must be some orchestration tool that can let us reuse all our existing Kustomize manifests for our apps so that I can say "this test requires apps A, B, C, please boot them and their required databases in a new empty namespace, then wait for them to get ready, then run the tests and then tear down everything, and then report all the results somewhere l, and also plug this into the GitHub PR status checks and log outcomes to Slack". Again, I don't know where to go for this. I tried the CNCF Slack community, but it was all tumbleweeds. I asked on "Ask HN" and got a reply from a CircleCI person that misunderstood my question. Surely this is a common problem? We use ArgoCD for deploys, but it doesn't have a solution to this problem, and Argo Workflows (which we currently use for e2e, but we are unhappy with it) curiously has no synergy with Argo app definitions.
- atombender 5y ago(Wow, something removed all the line breaks from my comment.)