Welch Canavan, Principal Engineer II at Stitch Fix, shares his unconventional journey into coding, the complexities of maintaining state in URLs, and the innovative solutions by T3 stack. He also discusses the current state of boot camps, his responsibilities at Stitch Fix, and why he quit veganism after 20 years. Other topics include CSS preferences, buying vs. building authentication services, improving appearance and camera setups, and the challenges of managing state and URLs in web applications.