Since I’ve added some more number of followers…… Let me reintroduce myself properly I’m David Uchenna (friends call me Dave). I’m a software/embedded systems engineer. Basically I bully computers into doing stuff, building websites, mobile apps, backend systems, and messing with embedded stuff sometimes. Right now I’m the Lead Engineer at @flinckapp. It’s an agricultural social marketplace that connects farmers and people in the ag space. We launched on the Play Store, hit over 200+ users in the first 3 months. My job is building and scaling the product so it actually helps real farmers and ag folks connect and do business. Outside of Flinck, I stay busy with side projects and client work. Recently I built a lead generation tool that saves freelancers hours, you just type a niche (like “dentists in Lagos”) and it searches the web, pulls public emails & phone numbers, then spits everything out as a clean CSV or even ready for WhatsApp. I also built a full website for my aunt’s fashion brand and I’ve worked on projects for other clients & companies, but they’re NDA. I’ve done hackathons too (won 3, made top 10 globally in one recently) and I’m currently in a remote lead backend engineer role. I love building in public. You’ll see me posting about what I’m coding, the tools & frameworks I’m trying (yes I have opinions), wins, fails, and random dev life stuff. I’m just a young engineer grinding, shipping products, and sharing the journey. I’m open to collabs, opportunities, feedback, or just chatting about code and ideas. DMs are always open ya!

hi anthropic and openai, how about you make coding models only accessible to actual professionals? that way we don’t lose our jobs to people who can’t even read the code they’re shipping ri?

“tell us more about yourself and why we should hire you”

i’ve moved from watching netflix on my free time, to watching system design tutorials on youtube 😭

mf, that’s called ZED!

it’s just like authentication and authorization chmod = permissions chown = ownership

i’ve been staring at my codebase like a total stranger 😭 i mean, of cause i started it off, but codex took over, now i’m lost

we got this before GTA VI😂? well, i’ll be daammm…..

is it better to store otps in the database or just throw them in cache?🤔 genuinely curious what people are doing in production

html 🤡

linux is the greatest operating system

ai be making me dumb everyday, wtf😭

“log.Fatal” logs the message and then immediately calls “os.Exit(1)”. that skips every defer, so you get no cleanup (DB/Redis connections left open, logs not flushed, workers not stopped cleanly) and no graceful shutdown. in a service with Postgres CDC, sharded workers, and Redis, that’s the opposite of what you want when something goes wrong after startup, lol. the usual pattern is to return the error all the way to main, do the cleanup there (or via context cancellation), then log and exit. “log.Fatal” is fine for tiny CLIs or the very first config check before any resources exist; once the process is a real service it’s better avoided.

finally, someone that understands! mistakes must be made and lessons must be learnt