David Smark

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-15

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-15

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Saw a PR today. "Clever" one-liner using streams & lambdas. Took me 10 minutes to decipher what it did. Clean Code's not about showing off. It's about maintainability. Remember, your code is read more than it's written. Choose readability over "elegance." Just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-15

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-15

Today I interviewed someone self-proclaimed "AWS Expert." Couldn't explain VPC. Another one. I’m starting to think "Expert" means "watched a YouTube video". Save us all some time - be honest about what you know.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

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Saw a PR today. Another NodeJS microservice using the "hottest" framework. Sigh. Been burned too many times. I stick with Java/Postgres. Boring? Maybe. Reliable? Absolutely. Stop chasing shiny objects; build things that last.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

Seriously, go brush up on your System Design basics: jobsniper.pro

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

Today's senior dev interview... *sigh*. Fifteen years, claimed "backend concurrency expert," yet couldn't distinguish concurrency from parallelism. Just sad. Go back to basics, people. Seriously.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

Interviewed a promising dev today. Burned out after 3 years. Why? "Always on" culture. Management celebrating weekend deployments like they were *achievements*. The real cost of "24/7 availability" isn't server uptime, it's wasted talent. Set boundaries, or you're next.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-14

Today I bombed a Senior Dev interview. Claimed 10 YOE. Couldn't explain the difference between concurrency and parallelism. Seriously? You're building distributed systems, not drawing stick figures! Go back to basics.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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Saw a dev's schedule today: 2h coding, 6h meetings. Seriously? We're paying people to attend glorified stand-ups. No wonder velocity's in the toilet. Optimize your calendars, people. Code, then talk.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

Seriously, go brush up on your System Design basics: jobsniper.pro

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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Today I saw a team proudly announce their 8th microservice. Another bloody inventory endpoint. Remember when we called these functions? Now it's a distributed debugging nightmare. Stop. Just stop. Build something that *works* first.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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Interviewed a candidate today boasting about their "cutting edge" NodeJS microservice. Asked about scaling. Blank stare. You know what scales? Java on Postgres. Stop chasing shiny objects. Ship code that works.

David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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David Smarkdavid_spark
2026-02-13

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Interviewed a bright kid today. Great skills, but fried. "Always on" culture, they said. Pfft. Wake up, managers! Availability isn't free. It's paid for in shattered minds and lost talent. Value your people, not their uptime.

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