This issue has been fixed now

The filter by watched/unwatched feature got fast-tracked after my wife was complaining about having to vote on movies we already watched. 😅 It is live now.

The IP and location is the Heroku server where the app is hosted.

I checked Overseerr and they have a nicer message when you log in

I’ll have to dig into it and see if there is a better way to authenticate. Plex doesn’t have much documentation for 3rd party app developers.

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

That’s cool. At least he was honest. /s

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.

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

My two take aways from the article

1. I need to find a way to invest in VPNs somehow
2. I need to see what comes up when you search for “sex dick”

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.