The Stack Overflow Podcast

You can learn more about Gretel here . The company is hiring for numerous positions.  Think your commits are anonymous? Think again: DefCon researchers figured out how to de-anonymize code creators by their style .  We published an article about the importance of including privacy in your SDLC: Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change. Our Lifeboat badge shoutout...

The inspiration for today's episode was a terrific article from The Guardian about the many ways in which the modern world, specifically the software we use every day, was designed to steal our attention.  During the episode, we discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor know as the "father of flow" for his  pioneering research on flow states. Sadly, Prof. Csikszentmihalyi passed away in 2021, b...

Will no one think of the maintainers? As The New Stack points out , watching millions of projects fail because of a bug in an open source library has become common enough that  we shrug and reply, "Told you so." It's gotten so bad, big tech companies are visiting the White House to discuss the issue as a matter of national security. There is a great post up on the Stack Overflow blog examining  th...

You can find Maureen here .  You can find Scott here . There is a wealth of free courses available through the AWS training website , including Operations, Advanced Networking, Machine Learning, and Data Science.      See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

You can find Philippe on Twitter here and learn more about CrowdSec here . They recently put together a list of the IP addresses trying to exploit the new Log4j vulnerability. For a prescient view of today's cybersecurity challenges, Humeau recommends John Brunner's classic 1975 sci-fi novel, The Shockwave Rider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. Data scientists will plan out a solution, carefully build models, test them in notebooks, then throw that solution over the wall to engineering. Implementing that solution can take months. Historically, the data science team has been purely science-driven. Work on methodologies, prove out something that they wanted to achieve, and then...

Esther and Matt are graduate students in computer science at the University of Washington , where they study community networks . Esther explains how open-source, community-owned and -operated LTE networks are a good solution for expanding public internet access and ensuring digital equity . Matt walks the team through Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) , a shared wireless spectrum that allow...

Developers are leading the Great Resignation, according to some reports . Others feel developers aren't resigning, so much as seizing the moment to find better opportunities.  You can find out hosts online at the links below Cassidy Ceora Ryan Ben Have an experience with the Great Resignation you want to share with our podcast and blog? Hit us up by email: Podcast Pitches for the blog Thanks to ou...

Hear why Ben thinks the Workplace Stack Exchange and the Academia Stack Exchange have the richest questions in the Stack Exchange network (or maybe just the most sitcom-worthy). ICYMI: Jack Dorsey stepped down from Twitter. Will he be back? At Twitter, Tess Rinearson is leading a new team focused on crypto, blockchains, and decentralized tech. Follow her on Twitter here . The team winces over a re...

What exactly is VanillaJS ? Tongue-in-cheek, it's the most lightweight JavaScript framework out there and used by pretty much every website on the internet. Seriously though, it's just JavaScript…without a framework.  If you're interested in reading and learning more about JavaScript, Chris has a bevy of courses and eBooks over at vanillajsguides.com .  Like Chris's ideas so much you want to subsc...

Bill gives an  overview of edge computing and why it matters. His team wants to enable developers by democratizing access to AI. OpenVINO is an open-source toolkit for high-performing AI inference. DevCloud lets developers prototype, test, and run their workloads for free on Intel hardware and software. For more on OpenVINO, check out this example we shared that increases image resolution.  Of cou...

The pathway to a software developer job has shifted over the years. It used to be that you had to go through a college computer science program before you could get a developer job. But as online education became better and programming jobs became more specialized, people were getting hired on the strength of their bootcamp or certification experience. Our 2021 Developer Survey found that almost 6...

Find Joel Spolsky on Twitter here . Jeff Atwood is on Twitter here . Geoff Dalgas is on Twitter here . Follow Jarrod Dixon on Twitter here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

PlanetScale is built on Vitess , the open-source database clustering system that runs at colossal scale hosting YouTube, Slack, and GitHub. A familiar theme : Big cloud companies aren’t set up for independent developers. Sam and Ceora discuss how serverless can get projects—even businesses—up and running quickly. Choosing the stack for a new business? Tools like Netlify can scale with your product...

This “Trojan source” bug (get it?) could threaten the security of all code. In its annual report on its user community , GitHub found that developers appreciate automation, reusing code, and remote work. (No surprises there.)  Ceora explains how automation and code reuse are game changers for independent developers and how this logic is spreading to big tech companies, too. GitHub’s first Chief Se...

Ethan's book, Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West , is available now. The metaverse isn’t just inevitable; it’s already here (and it has a booming real estate market ). As we move more of our lives online onto platforms controlled by increasingly powerful digital giants, Ethan explains the democratizing power of cryptocurrency and blockchain.  On the other han...

The conversation was inspired by Epic's decision to make it's Kid's Web Service's parent verification free to all developers. Ben has been grappling with these questions since 2013, when he wrote about allowing screen time into his young son's life.  One thing that old article does remind us; how incredibly indestructible the original iPad was . A true tank of a tablet! Thanks to our lifeboat badg...

We kick things off by weighing the merits of two gender-neutral regional pronouns: the familiar y’all and the under appreciated yinz . Now that’s covered... The global population of developers will hit 45 million by 2030, up from 26.9 million in 2021 ( EDC ). What platforms will they want to build on? Did Kubernetes solve all your problems? Did it create new ones? It seems there’s always an XKCD r...

Maxwell, a solution architect at xMatters, took a winding road to get to where he is. After a computer engineering education, he held jobs as field support engineer, product manager, SRE, and finally his current role as a solutions architect, where he serves as something of an SRE for SREs, helping them solve incident management problems with the help of xMatters.  When he moved to the SRE role, M...

You can learn more about Roll, which describes itself as blockchain infrastructure for social money, here . If you want to follow them on social, check out @tryrollhq  as well as their personal socials:  @bradley_miles_  and  @sidkal .  If you are interested in this kind of tech, check out previous conversations on Web3 and our chat with Chris Dixon on blockchain. Our lifeboat badge winner of the...

GitHub's CEO, Nat Friedman, stepped down recently to focus on his startup roots. Chief product officer, Thomas Dohmke, will be moving to CEO.  The Verge reviewed our no-longer-a-joke April Fool's keyboard.  How many keyboard layouts are there anyway? Including non-English layouts, there's lots .  Do you have a mind's eye? How about an inner monologue? We explore why some people have a voice in the...

Rennie grew up in Kenya, Honduras, Somalia, and Oklahoma; his parents volunteered for the Peace Corps before working for the US Government overseas.  Audio tape drives are real!  Check out this Retrocomputing question about how the Commodore 64 audio interface worked.  If you  want  to remember something better, a 2014 study says you should write it out by hand.  Rennie worked at Blackberry, and B...

You can find Alex's writing for Employ America here . You can find him on Twitter here You can find Hassan's blog here and his Twitter here . You can find their writing on the semiconductor industry and shortages here and here . Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is jasme, who helped someone figure out how to fix email validation with Laravel. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Cassidy Ceora Ryan Ben Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Tadeck, for showing us how to design a : Function for Factorial in Python See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

We start out the show talking about this article: I Don't Know How To Count That Low . Is Apple normalizing surveillance? Toyota trucks and Land Cruisers were very popular with ISIS.  Instead of a lifeboat, we shoutout this fun question: How do I stop annoyed wizards from killing people all the time? A common problem for us muggles.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...