Coding as a greybeard

Interviewed Erik van Eykelen of releasewise.com, a (then) 51-year-old programmer and founder who had some interesting things to say about growing older in tech. “I’m 51 and I’ve been active in this industry since I was 14. I watched it grow from computers with 4k of memory to having a supercomputer in my pocket. I was learning in the age […]

Ask HN: What does Full-Stack Developer even mean?

I’ve always defined myself as a Full-stack developer because I have experience with all components of a “computing stack”, from low level debugging, plumbing, systems administration, backend development, networking and frontend Javascript. Yet these days as I’m looking for work, all full-stack offers are about client-side web development with a little bit of backend Node.js. Is my definition completely wrong? […]