Template sites vs custom builds, what’s better in the long run?

I started my business with a template website because it was fast and cheap. It worked fine until I tried to expand and needed more control. Recently, someone told me about RedEagleTech, a UK dev team that builds custom sites for small businesses, not huge corporate projects.

It made me wonder if a tailored site might actually be worth it down the line for scaling and automation.

What do you guys think, stick with templates, or invest in something custom early on?

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Is your developer productivity platform measuring impact efficiently or just giving you hefty graphs with Monday blues and headaches?

Every Monday, teams look at graphs and PR counts, but still can’t tell what actually moved the needle. We built a Developer Productivity Tool that writes weekly AI summaries explaining what changed and why it mattered, crediting refactors, CI improvements, and stability work that often go unseen.

Full write-up here: https://www.codeant.ai/blogs/developer-productivity-platform

FYI, we are officially launching the product this Thursday.. so stay tuned as you’ll find many more surprises within the launch.

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Why Combining Lean, XP, and Product Thinking Matters for Sustainable Software Development

We often treat Lean, XP, and Product Thinking as separate worlds: process, craftsmanship, and strategy.
But when you see them together, they form three interdependent pillars that help teams build sustainable software:

• Lean to focus on value and flow
• XP to ensure technical excellence
• Product Thinking to build with purpose

In my latest article, I explore how missing one of these pillars destabilizes the whole system and how we can bring them back into alignment.

- Lean + XP + Product Thinking – Three Pillars for Sustainable Software Development

Curious to hear your experiences:

• Which of these pillars is strongest or weakest in your context?
• What has helped you connect them better in practice?

You can also read the full Lean Software Development in Practice series here:
- https://www.eferro.net/p/lean-software-development-practical.html

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Workstation orchestrator

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Anyone else find audit logging a pain to deal with?

I’m hacking on an idea (calling it Tracebase for now) and just wanted to sanity check if this is actually a problem others care about.

From what I’ve seen:

• Audit logging is usually an afterthought.
• Every team ends up rolling their own thing (logs / db / dashboard).
• Once you add scale, keeping logs queryable without dragging the app down gets ugly fast.

So a couple of questions for devs/founders here:

• Have you personally struggled with setting up reliable audit logging?
• If you’re at a startup, would you pay for something plug-and-play instead of building it yourself?
• What would make this kind of tool a “must have” for you?

Not trying to pitch, just trying to figure out if this is actually worth building or if I’m overthinking it.

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Wanted to share a free dictionary api I made, which supports multiple locales

https://dictionary.relycapp.com

Title says it. This is 100% free dictionary api that supports 7 languages (en,es,fr,it,de,ru,jp) and contains about 8 million words and 2 glosses per words. I could not believe there was not a good existing solution, so I gave up and made one lol.

Feel free to use it!

Again, it's 100% free. If people like to use it a lot i'll open source as well. If I get decent engagement, i'll consider adding more langs.

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Do external libraries store secret keys?

Forgive me if this sounds dumb but do external libraries store secret keys?, such as when I use a library to communicate with a service like aws s3. I'm asking because I want to know if I should commit the dependencies of my code as well

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