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Laurence Gellert
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Laurence Gellert's personal blog at laurencegellert.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link the 2012 full-stack developer skills list and the software ghettos post, the latter as the source for the term "code ghetto". They cite them as references without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts on Application Development, Book Reviews, Business, Code, Data, For New Developers Fun Nerdy, Science and Math, Sys Admin, Work
Most-linked posts?
- What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-04-16
What Hacker News says?
See also: timestamps when HN comments are posted. This is much more interesting because pretty much everyone only participates in discussions when posts are on the front page - it would be tough to schedule/delay a post and stay relevant. Also, the lock-in after 1 hour (or a reply) preventing deletion is huge. Some HN participants are now kind of "whales" in the startup community - at the very least, this info could…
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on “Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp”Submitted What is a Full Stack developer? (2012) as a story · 157 points
HN discussion"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think the offense taken at it is justified. [0] This comes up top of Google for me: https://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/12/software-ghettos-a-f... I feel that "code ghetto" conveys the myopic POV of the article per…
Comment linking /2012/12/software-ghettos-a-form-of-technical-debt/
on “Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should”Submitted What is a Full Stack developer? as a story · 5 points
HN discussion"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think the offense taken at it is justified. [0] This comes up top of Google for me: https://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/12/software-ghettos-a-f... and I feel that it conveys the meaning, even if you disagree with t…
Comment linking /2012/12/software-ghettos-a-form-of-technical-debt/
on “Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should”Submitted Full Stack Developer Skills and Technologies for 2019 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's been a drive towards "full stack developers" lately: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-... That said, most of human history has involved specialization, modularity, and abstraction driving greater productivity. So on one hand, you have work-silos, on the other you have the power of modularity. I think difference with software is that most of the productivity constraints happen at th…
Comment linking /2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/
on “Microservices – Not a free lunch”Submitted What is a full stack developer? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI thought a full-stack (web) developer was more something along the lines of this post: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...
Comment linking /2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/
on “Full Stack Web Development”Submitted My GitHub activity graph is a DNA spiral. Build your own clever design here: as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhen I go back to the original list http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-... , full stack developer mainly seems to be backend developer + javascript & knowledge of the browser context. It does make me think that most people claiming to be full stack developers are jack of all trades, master of none.
Comment linking /2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/
on “Full Stack Developers: Renaissance Men of The 21st Century”Submitted Visualizing Relationships in ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-... tl;dr Someone who's familiar with - Hosting / Server environment (SysOp things) - Application development (Front / Backend)
Comment linking /2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/
on “Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?”Submitted Mac vs. Dell for Software Development with Cost Breakdown 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | USA | Remote Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Resume / CV / Recommendations: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencegellert/ Blog: https://www.laurencegellert.com/ Email: lgellert ‘at’ gmail.com Technologies: Python (Django, DRF), JavaScript / Typescript, React / Angular, PHP, Java (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Maven, CXF), Perl, C#, SQL / No-SQL (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)”Submitted My Answer To: I want to learn programming, should I attend a code school? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd say that if you can realistically do (at least) all the things on this list then yes: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...
Comment linking /2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-developer/
on “Ask HN: Is now the time right to switch job title to "full stack developer"?”
