15 replies

1. Andrew Douglass 7 min later

   @zachleat I’ve only gotten in trouble twice for telling senior full stack developers that they had the front end skills of an intern.

   1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later

      @ardouglass we both know the “full” in full stack means 50% 😅

      1. Florian Schroiff 1 hr later

         @zachleat @ardouglass “Glass half full stack developer” …is that something?

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

            @flori @ardouglass 100%… wait

2. Stuart Langridge 16 min later

   @zachleat you think? People deploying fifty megs of JavaScript to every person’s phone are being displaced by people writing back end code which deploys fifty megs of JavaScript instead? While HTML and CSS designers and developers continue crying until they die from dehydration?

   1. Sandrine 2 hr later

      @sil @zachleat I definitely need to increase my water intake.

3. newreld 16 min later

   @zachleat please explain. just curios.

4. Kapil Kaisare 48 min later

   @zachleat Gonna have to explain that.

5. Mike Aparicio 2 hr later

   @zachleat https://fullstack.mikeaparicio.com/

6. motionsuggests 3 hr later

   @zachleat Preach!

7. Mike-麥-Mai-v1.618 😎 3 hr later

   @zachleat full of shit developers

8. Wolfr 7 hr later

   @zachleat I feel this today when somebody wrote a div with onClick event and somebody else brought in overengineered TS in the same week

9. bersling 9 hr later

   @zachleat it probably depends on your needs. In some settings the broader picture and capability to take from a wider variety of tasks from the board are very valuable, and the damage done by not being 100% pro is acceptable. In other situations, you'd want the perfect optimizations delivered by specialists.

10. Hasan Ali 10 hr later

    @zachleat what do you think needs to change? And why do you think this is case?

11. Sebastian Laube 10 hr later

    @zachleat you mean head hunters contacting people, dropping a colon of buzzword JS frameworks and call the job frontend development while searching for back-of-the-frondend developers?