The Stack Overflow Podcast

Cassidy is co-organizing Devs for Ukraine, a free online engineering conference from April 25-26 to raise funds in support of Ukraine. Register today and donate if you can. Plex.tv is a hub for live TV, on-demand streaming content, and your own media library.  Read the full story of Fast’s speedy shutdown. Following the ultimate personal security checklist will protect your digital security and pr...

Read about how New Relic achieved pay equity —and what, exactly, that means. Last month, hacker group Lapsus$ released screenshots showing it had successfully breached Okta’s internal systems using compromised credentials. What does it all mean? Read about it here and here . Matt recounts a harrowing example of a man-in-the-middle attack that nearly emptied a friend’s bank account Today’s recommen...

Quizzes and games like Roblox are a good way to build your knowledge, whether you’re learning to code or becoming a K-pop expert. ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto , who recently returned to an IC role after serving as CEO and CTO. Connect with Jon on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter . Today’s Lifeboat badge goes to user Roko C. Buljan for their answer...

React 18 is the latest major version of React. Cassidy also provides an excellent summary of React history. Ceora is working on some CSS art (inspired by K-pop, natch) using CodePen . Cassidy explains why Tanya Reilly’s talk-turned-blog-post Being Glue , which Ceora shouted out in Episode 425, was pivotal in shaping her career decisions. Why do women in software engineering have to worry about bei...

Read a profile of Mattaniah on People of Color in Tech (POCIT) here . Connect with Mattaniah on LinkedIn or follow her on TikTok . Who remembers Vine ?? This week’s tech recs: Cassidy recommends her Hifiman headphones . Ben recommends his hybrid RAV4 (42 miles on the battery alone). Matt recommends Spline , a design app for 3D web experiences. Ceora’s recommendation is a clear phone case from Five...

Why has this empty NPM package been installed 700,000 times? We’ve got the answer for ya. A nice article and podcast on flow state, including the claim that 23 minutes is the magic number of minutes it takes to find your flow. Thanks to our Lifeboat badge winner of the week, Manjusha, for explaining how to:  Parse a pipe-delimited file in Python See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

Vercel is a developer-first, frontend-focused platform. Together with Google and Meta, Vercel built Next.js , an open-source React framework that helps developers build high-performance web experiences with ease. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible serverless database platform that enables infinite SQL horizontal scale. Tools like Webflow and Squarespace have made web development accessible for casu...

Once a company reaches a certain size, their customers might start asking for proof that it has good security and data habits. They want to know if there’s a business continuity plan in place in case disaster strikes. For many companies, formalizing this proof means submitting to an auditing process known as SOC 2. If you’re a developer at one of these companies, particularly if you provide or use...

Geriatric millennials unite. Learn more about GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta , plus check out CodeSandbox , home of self-proclaimed lazy developers. Meanwhile, in blockchain: Polygon, a solution designed to expand transaction efficiency and output for Ethereum, raised $450 million “to consolidate its lead in the race to scale Ethereum.” Is Decentraland the most annoying...

Danielle’s path to software engineering began when she was accepted into MIT’s Women’s Technology Program , an education and mentorship opportunity for high schoolers interested in engineering or computer science. She later earned her CS degree from MIT. Danielle’s first role out of college was a junior developer working on Meteor , a full-stack JavaScript framework that was just starting a GraphQ...

The team pays tribute to Microsoft’s Visual Studio , an IDE and source code editor that turns 25 this month. Read Simon Willison’s article on how companies can financially support the open-source contributors they rely on.  Learn more about open source’s diversity problem, and how to address it, here and here . Why are K-pop NFTs so unpopular with fans? The Atlantic digs in. ICYMI: Listen to our c...

David is a CS major who worked in Apple’s music group in the 90s and went on to become CEO of eMusic in the aughts.  At Venrock , David invested in early-stage crypto, consumer, and enterprise tech companies. He was early to crypto as a node maintainer on the Bitcoin blockchain and an Ethereum miner, setting up a rig in his basement several years ago. At CoinFund , he focuses on early- and growth-...

Learn more about GitHub’s ​​machine learning-based code scanning , which finds security issues before they make it to production. Google invests $100 million in a skills training program for low-income Americans . Is there a catch? Take2 is a New Zealand program that teaches incarcerated people to code: building marketable skills, opening up employment opportunities, and dramatically reducing reci...

Expensify is an expense management solution that integrates with your travel, ERP, and finance/accounting software. Check out their full list of integrations . Expensify engineers rely on Stack Overflow for Teams to make knowledge accessible and shareable, rather than wading through swathes of documentation. Read the case study . Flat organizations like Expensify have minimal or no middle manageme...

Ceora shouts out Mermaid , a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that creates diagrams dynamically based on Markdown-inspired text definitions.  Coinbase’s bouncing QR code ad proved so popular it crashed the app . Considered passé pre-pandemic, QR codes have obvious value now: they’re touch-free, easy to scan, and ubiquitous. (Just don’t call it a comeback .) In preparation for his mov...

Here’s a useful primer on functional programming with JavaScript. This tutorial will guide you in exploring the fundamentals of functional programming with React . If you’re looking for more info on functional programming in React, we’d like to tell you why hooks are the best thing to happen to React . Functional not your thing? Learn why object-oriented programming (OOP) has become such a dominan...

Learn more about AlphaCode here . Check out an amazing video essay critiquing the NFT market, The Line Goes Up . Read up on Josh Wardle, the developer who built Wordle for his partner to help pass the time during the pandemic, then sold it to the NY Times for a sweet seven figures. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel...

You can learn more about Clement's career on his LinkedIn and on Twitter (assuming you speak French). You can learn more about Dailymotion here and check out the roles they are hiring for here . You can find Cassidy Williams on Twitter and at her website .  You can find Ceora Ford on Twitter and at her website . Our Lifeboat badge winner of the week is Swati Kiran, who helped solve an error causin...

These days, every company looking at analyzing their data for insights has a data pipeline setup. Many companies have a fast production database, often a NoSQL or key-value store, that goes through a data pipeline. The pipeline process performs some sort of extract-transform-load process on it, then routes it to a larger data store that the analytics tools can access. But what if you could skip so...

It’s not news that, as Cassidy says, “remote has grown wildly fast”—but Remote has gone from about 25 employees in March 2020 to 900 now (a 3,500% increase). Ceora explains to Matt (oh, sweet summer’s child) what it means to get ratioed on Twitter. Inspired by a great read , the team discusses how Gen Z, having grown up without floppy disks, file folders, or directories, thinks about information....

SphereEX builds distributed data systems, making it easier for organizations to load balance massive data stores across multiple servers.  Now that open-source software has taken over Western software, it’s China’s turn. Even big companies like Baidu and Bytedance are opening up their projects.  Trista is the only female Apache member in China, which is both an honor and a demonstration of how muc...

Ceora has her second brain stored in Notion , complete with GIFs and pretty color to get that aesthetic. Ancient history in blog years: Cassidy talks about the perils of being bleeding-edge instead of cutting-edge: Apollo Mission: The pros and cons of being an early adopter of new technology  Everybody is aboard the VS Code train, which has the hottest TikTok around. Cassidy recommends the MonoLis...

Neopets : A little-known gateway into a software career. (Nineties kids will remember.) Among the products Mitchell helped build at Hashicorp: Terraform , Vagrant , and Vault . Not many C-level execs return to IC roles, but you might be surprised how many managers move back to being individual contributors . Follow Mitchell on Twitter here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Marcin Wyszynski, founder and CEO at Spacelift . Marcin says Spacelift aims to be for infrastructure-as-code what GitHub is to git. It centralizes everything about your IaC system: it runs code, deploys within CI/CD pipelines, tracks the progress of your infrastructure, and gives you insight into who made what changes and why. Today it works w...

The Twitter thread that brought Cryptoland to the team’s attention. Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like dApp ) would need coding skills to contribute meaningfully. Why is Ethereum so expensive and so congested? Ben outlines how Solana has become the fastest-growing blockchain in the world by evolving the Ethereum concept to make it...