The Fuller Stack, Kevlin Henney

The Fuller Stack, with Kevlin Henney, at Codecamp_Festival 2023
How full is your stack? The stack many developers are aware of is often quite shallow. The term ‘full-stack developer’ is typically used to refer to someone who works on both the front end and the back end of a web-fronted application. It assumes a particular kind of system that falls within one region of the architectural landscape and is associated with a narrow range of programming languages and infrastructure. Most of the technical stack is commodified and abstracted away. And, most of the time, developers can safely ignore the world of systems programming - middleware development, database implementation, TCP/IP programming, device driver development, compiler writing, etc. - as well as the physical and mathematical reality that underpins the whole stack.
But not all of the time. Sometimes the bits and the bytes break through - remember Meltdown and Spectre? Sometimes we hit the limits of our software and our hardware. Sometimes we hit the limits of the universe.
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[@aidanbyrne8267]

Oof, dont listen with headphones! My left ear is dying 😅

[@Dorgrin]

Would've been nice if they'd rebalanced or even just copied the left channel to the right >

[@balazsklezli5702]

I love this talk, thanks for it!

[@SimGunther]

22:37 Greatest owning of ChatGPT and other tech like it in 6 seconds or less!

[@brainforest88]

Fun part: Excel datetime columns cannot handle timezones. Everytime I export a pandas dataframe into Excel I have to go thru the datetime fields and remove the timezone. Welcome to the 21st century Excel!

[@edgeeffect]

I feel the late great Freddie Mercury put it best when he said "... and I don't like Star Wars" - just sayin'

[@RobinMeow-le7em]

Kevlin, I watched your talk about "The Fuller Stack" 4 months ago. When you presented The Java/JavaScript joke, I thought, you were gonna say three. You left one out. I also thought, surely hes gonna include it the next time he does this talk, because someone will point it out to him, but I was wrong. So here I am, informing you, that you forgot about the very few pi**ed poeple at CoffeScript.

[@SystemAlchemist]

The Gödel Theorem is once again used almost entirely wrong. For anyone interested, there is a great video on here somewhere that explains the misconception.

[@dirkpostma77]

Which ChatGPT version did you use? V4 is significantly better than 3.5. Soon v5 is thee..

[@GoodTechConf]

I'm afraid Kevin talks are less and less intersting these days. It looks more like a "concepts soup" than a real informative talk, tasty but pointless. He jump from quantium mechanics to C, then CAP theorem and finally Gödel. WTF is going on, seriously ? 🤣

[@OlaInTheClouds]

This guy had better ALWAYS think correctly, completely and overall flawless. ONE misstake from mr Henney will create a black hole - of unlikeliness, but the agan if he is on The Heart of Gold, the Infinite Improbability Drive would kick in and take him safely to the other end of universe in jiffy.