--- title: I'm sweating bullets | daily.dev description: A personal diary-style post from a developer recounting intense anxiety ahead of a technical interview with a CEO, Tech Lead, and Senior Developer, where... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-sweating-bullets-fejo59aur twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I'm sweating bullets | daily.dev og:description: A personal diary-style post from a developer recounting intense anxiety ahead of a technical interview with a CEO, Tech Lead, and Senior Developer, where... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-sweating-bullets-fejo59aur og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FeJO59Aur.png og:image:alt: I'm sweating bullets og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I'm sweating bullets **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal diary-style post from a developer recounting intense anxiety ahead of a technical interview with a CEO, Tech Lead, and Senior Developer, where they'll need to defend architectural decisions on systems they built (an AFS and a pgrust port). The post mixes stream-of-consciousness stress with tangential updates about side projects (a self-hosted IDE with distributed agent execution, WebAssembly/Wasmer edge computing ideas). Comments show the interview actually went poorly on the first attempt, got postponed, and the author later rationalizes technical insights about POSIX compliance and durability issues in the systems being discussed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Leaving Tech](https://daily.dev/posts/leaving-tech-9x0prwch6) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Here’s a sentence that made no sense to me for most of last year: the interviews where I thought I crushed it were the ones that rejected me. 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