The Stack Overflow Podcast

If you’re a programmer working with npm, Sara has some basic advice on best practices that will keep your codebase safe. Today’s discussion was inspired by a blog post from Michel Gorny which you can find here . Need to simplify the address where people can send you bitcoins? Check out https://ens.domains/ , which even offers .club for your TLD. Thanks to Tagir Valeev for answering the question: H...

Blake has a PhD in physics from Yale and is the quantum platform lead. You can find him on Twitter here and read some of his recent writing here . Robert is VP of IBM Quantum Ecosystem Development, IBM Research. He's the author of Dancing with Qubits  and has put together a great list of tutorial videos on his website. No Lifeboat badge winner today, but if you're a fan of Schrödinger's cat, be su...

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A nice story on how to avoid the Nomad Tax Trap. Got a lot of employees moving to Texas? The state is notorious for the number of patent lawsuits filed there, and having employees living in the area may expose companies to great legal liability. If the work from home boom is here to stay, get ready for a lot of "cost-of-living" adjustments to follow . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to kd12 fo...

Pattern matching in Python 3 - a nice new feature, a  gift to Stack Overflow point seekers, or a big pain in the neck?  Curious about the Jamstack? You can find lots of great information on how it works and who works with it here . Want to follow Matt? He's on Twitter here . Our lifeboat badge winner for this episode is Jim Mischel, who explained how to: Find the first character in a string that i...

Thanks to Marceli Wac for sending us a question about cron jobs. We love getting mail from listeners and try our best to read interesting questions on the show.  The goal for Ben's app is simple: let anyone register their intention to show up to the dog park at a certain time so that strangers can have a better chance of arriving at the same time and get some exercise for the pups. What's the simp...

You can check out Cassidy's course on React here. It will teach you how to "build a reusable and declarative React component library. It's perfect for developers who are looking to build a scalable design system for their team and product." If you're not in the mood to subscribe, Cassidy would recommend Free Code Camp . There's lots of info about Cassidy's various projects at cassidoo.co .  You ca...

Check out the great post from Laura Nolan, a senior engineer at Slack, breaking down their outage. Paul wants some simple command line utilities for "fix-server" and "boot-it-all-up." Clubhouse was known early on for being popular with Silicon Valley, but it's increasingly becoming a global phenomenon. You don't have to wait for it to go public to invest,  you can buy shares right now in Agora, th...

Maybe you don't think GameStop is a tech story, but rest assured, the screenwriting duo behind The Social Network and  21 will inject plenty of nerdery into the Hollywood version. Sara is eager to share the history of CSS , and all the ways it has let her down. We dig into a wise act of self-prersevation from Ben B Johnson. As he writes :   "Similar to SQLite , Litestream is open source but closed...

You can follow Brian on Twitter. and check out the Cloudcast here.  If you're just getting started, he has a cloud basics podcast that covers a new topic each month.  And if you are just really, really into containers, well he's got you covered .  Paul was talking with someone who mentors a lot of young coders. What are they all into these days? Typescript? Web Assembly? Nope, they're all getting...

Today's conversation was inspired by a great blog post from Charity Majors. We also discuss the Chrome team's decision to migrate Puppeteer to Typescript , and the way in which large tech organizations are increasingly interconnected by a set of open source tools and platforms.  Lastly, we discuss the impact expanded funding for community colleges could have on the pipeline of software engineers e...

Joe Biden just wants to ride his Peleton, but equipment connected to WiFi  with a camera and microphone can pose a real security risk . If you've got a chicken coop or greenhouse that needs a little warmth this winter, maybe team it up with your gaming PC or bitcoin mining rig , which tend to give off a lot of heat. Speaking of heat, we dive into datacenters that were sunk under the ocean in an ef...

Joocelyn hosts the Git Cute podcast, which you can find here . She's working on a book about seniority in the software industry, which you can pre-order here . You can follow her on Twitter at javavvitch . Our lifeboat badge goes to LMc for explaining how one can: Count the Letter Frequency in a String with Python See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt...

The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives. You can find out more about Vercel , which  recently raised a $40 million round , on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future . You can find more info on Next. JS here ....

How could you not love a team with a bio like this: "We’re a young and dynamic team of messy data-scientists who have failed at being employed on the real market. Our experience in losing data and throwing files away is more than amazing! Over the years, we have managed to get rid of so much important data at home and even at work." Find out how you pay other people to throw your data away here ....

The starting point for today's conversation was an argument made by Guillermo Rauch in this blog post . "And each time, your frontend has an opportunity to impress, delight, perform, be accessible and memorable. What's more, frontend is an area of technological and artistic differentiation , while backend becomes increasingly commoditized, turnkey and undifferentiated." Sure, programming in PowerP...

If you're interested in learning a bit of BBC Basic, there is a fun introduction here . You can tweet at this bot , and it will run the contents as code and reply with a video of the results. If you are interested in life-logging and want to see it done with a lot of very pretty graphs, check out this post, My Year in Data . Last but not least we chat about Svelte , which lets you create "cybernet...

You can find the first episode of the SO podcast here . It was conducted over Asterix , open source telephony software that allowed for fancy operations like voice messaging and recording calls!  What would social software look like if we designed them to remove commerce and popularity? Are services like Mightybell an interesting example of where we might be headed? If you want to build a model of...

There is a nice breakdown of the Solarigate attack here , but the most important thing to know is that just seeing the words BusinessLayer.dll is enough to make our eyes glaze over and our defenses go down. One interesting second order effect of this intrusion is that it will be difficult to know when all malicious code and access has really been removed. It brought to mind the classic Turing Awar...

With Bitcoin hitting all time highs, there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen next in the market crypto market. Meanwhile, regulators are targeting Ripple with a lawsuit and arguing that crypto isn't really a currency after all.  You have until Jan, 4, 2021 to participate in our annual Winter Bash . By answering questions on Stack Overflow and across Stack Exchange, you can unloc...

There is a lot to think about when designing trading algorithms , especially in the world of cryptocurrency, where prices can be extremely volatile and limited liquidity means a single trader moving big volume can have a hefty influence on price. Bitcoin is at a record breaking price these days, but investing in it is not for the faint of heart. To learn more, we chat with Li, who is a software en...

You can read more about Javascriptlandia here . It is part of larger conversation happening on Google's Open Source Blog and through initiatives like Github allowing corporations into their Sponsors program. For a delightfully old school and interactive website about Myles, click here . For his Twitter, go here . You can find Jory's website here and her Twitter presence here . This week's lifeboat...

You can find the original tweet here . AWS will work with them on publicity and open source their version so that there can be a flow of value in both directions.  You can learn more about Tim's company, Checkly.hq, which works on active monitoring for developers.  The team there also works on  Headless Recorder, a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright...

As promised, here is the grass hat . You can find out more about Earthly here. We spend a little time talking about Nix OS the operating system you can roll back if you don't like a patch. Raise your hand if you remember learning computer science with Turbo Pascal . Maybe you didn't know, but discs aren't as slow as people think. Adam's recent episode is about upending common assumptions on IO per...

You can read about GraphQL here and Apollo here.  Cassidy Williams, who curates our newsletter, wrote about her experience as an early adopter of the technology last summer. You can find more on Meteor here .  Schmidt also helped create Monument ,  which he describes as "an affordable live/work art event space in downtown San Francisco. The upstairs is 24 private bedrooms and studio spaces and the...