Kevinslin

Notes by kevin

  • talks online

  • 6 talks in 1

  • shifting paradigms

    • standard vs reality
  • what is full stack?

    • traditional (front/back, 3 tier, etc)
    • reductively simple
  • other stacks

    • lamp/mean/jam
    • 3tiers
    • osi layers
  • app holotypes

    • what are the sort of apps
  • examples of wow apps

    • arxiv-sanity example
      • additions to arxiv
        • keep track of recent papers
        • search
        • etc
      • turn website into app
    • some generalizations from arxiv-sanity
      • enrich data
      • validate existing data
      • personalize data
      • notify on new data
      • etc
    • book recommendation on hn
      • hackernewsreading
    • shazam
  • 4 paradigm shifts

    • local first
      • techs
        • pwa
        • wasm
      • move backend closer to user
      • embedded database
        • eg.
          • meteor minimongo
          • appsync
          • sqlite
          • duckdb
      • lots of advantages (see slide)
    • async
      • should be easy
      • why valuable
        • one click buy, counter 70% cart abandonement
      • lots of async tooling (eg. sideqik)
      • workflow orchestration (eg. temporal)
    • data
      • big data
      • data as moat
      • job posting growing faster than developers
      • ETL vs ELT
    • ai
      • eg. prompt engineering
        • theres a prompt marketplace!