Kevin Marero

Employed misantropist

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

He said he'd just deploy one more prompt to get even.

[Bhanu D — sys/acc @iBhanuDahiya]

No one talks about the pain of students whose parents never pressured them, but trusted them and that trust feels heavy

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Therapist; “There is a tiger in you”

The tiger in me:

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

- A sysadmin wrote a config file
- That config file became a best practice
- That best practice became a Stack Overflow answer
- That Stack Overflow answer trained an AI model
- That AI model became a $20/month coding assistant
- That coding assistant now writes config files

The knowledge you gave away for free
is being sold back to you with a chat interface.

And they’re calling it the future of engineering.

[Aspireachieve @Aspireachievee]

PSYCHOLOGY OF PEOPLE WHO TREAT THEIR BIRTHDAY LIKE A NORMAL DAY

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[✒️ @Literariium]

— Marcus Aurelius

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

We hired a backend guy recently who didn’t know half the buzzwords.

No Saga, no CQRS, shaky on K8s. On paper, easy reject.

Then we gave him a real prod-ish bug:
sporadic 500s, p95 spikes, only on one endpoint.

He did 3 things:

1. Asked for repro + timeline. “When did it start? What changed? Any new feature release?”
2. Cut the problem space. Logs first, then metrics, then a single failing request ID.
3. Formed a hypothesis, tested it, wrote down what each result would mean.

Found it in 25 mins:
connection pool exhausted from one code path leaking retries + no timeout.

I’ll take that over memorized concepts anyday.

This is what people don't get right, companies hire for fundamentals + debugging. You can teach patterns. You can’t teach calm thinking under failure.

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

dailyJavascriptHatePostIsHereBaby https://t.co/5U65QgJg5H

[XDA @xdadevelopers]

This free open-source app is the only utility I need for managing hundreds of PDFs now
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[Etornam ✨ @_iamEtornam]

“Just write code like a normal human f*cking being, please”

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

atLeastITried https://t.co/UfAZQHSPX1

[Sahn Lam @sahnlam]

System Design Blueprint

We've created a template to tackle various system design problems in interviews.

Hope this checklist is useful to guide your discussions during the interview process.

This briefly touches on the following discussion points:
- Load Balancing
- API Gateway
- Communication Protocols
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Database
- Cache
- Message Queue
- Unique ID Generation
- Scalability
- Availability
- Performance
- Security
- Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- And more

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[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Dream job? I only dream of vacations.