The Stack Overflow Podcast

Chou, a  Stanford educated computer scientist and electrical engineer, cut her teeth in Silicon Valley with stints at Facebook, Quora, and Pinterest, where she advocated for a stronger focus on diversity.  Block Party describes its mission as building "anti-harassment tools against online abuse, but more fundamentally we are building solutions for user control, protection, and safety." As CEO and...

Eric was a build engineer at Apple for many years, then started a FeaturePeek which went through Y-combinator. He talks about what he learned from those experiences and how he'll be applying that knowledge to his new job at Netlify. The teams combined forces to make the process of submitting and gathering feedback on deploy previews easier and more broadly accessible outside technical teams. As Ca...

David helps us understand where great designers fit on web companies these days, somewhere between front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end . Right now a lot of projects have to be maintained in multiple places - one for marketing, one for design, one for development. David shares thoughts on how to combine workspaces and where design systems can be integrated with tools. Congrats to our l...

Ilya brought a host of good topics to the table. Bold Penguin went from one offshore developer, to one key dev, to one team, to multiple teams, multiple leaders, multiple external teams, to having a complete reboot only to go through it again. Ilya explains the lessons learned along the way. If you’re trying to grow a software startup, you have to understand and adapt your business. Bold Penguin h...

Sara has been part of the open source community since 2001 and was formerly on the board of the .NET foundation. Recently she was elected to the board of the OpenJS foundation and was eager to get back in the trenches, helping people solve computer problems. In this episode we talk about coding interviews and brushing up on your puzzle solving chops. Later we dive into Ember.js, the framework Sara...

You can find Tommy on Twitter here and check out his NFT collection here . Evan tweets his undying love for The Mets here . Before you lay out your critique of NFTs, here's a great documentary on fraud and forgery in the fine art world.  Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is Oriol, who answered the question: What is the difference between 'remove' and 'removeChild' method in javascript? See Pri...

You can check out the badge Github gave to folks for helping with the Mars flight here . You can learn more about F´, NASA’s open source flight software and embedded system framework, here. Paul tells the story of a shady financial operator who offered to take his blog public during the dot com boom. Yes, Ftrain.com was once an IPO candidate. Who copies and pastes from Stack Overflow? We dig into...

You can check out Frontend Mentor here . Try a few challenges or join their Slack, where thousands of students are chatting about how they are approaching the projects. You can follow Matt on Twitter here . If you want to read about how he made the jump from personal trainer to web developer, he did a nice interview with Indie London. Our lifeboat of the week goes to Banex for answering the questi...

You can follow David on Twitter here and read his blog here . Check out more about Dapper Labs and it's work with the NBA and NFTs here . David has written some influential pieces on the world of digital music and the role of software platforms. Check out a few of his pieces here . Read about David's adventure's setting up a Minecraft server for his kids and using software for griefer detection. ...

Want to try developing with Ethereum? Free Code Camp has you covered . On the other hand, here are some thoughts on why it's not the greatest language for developers . Interested in minting your own NFT? There are lots of options . Ethereum can be more expensive to use (those gas fees, ouch) but it also has the most active network of artists and collectors. Thanks to Phlume, our lifeboat badge win...

You can check out our deep dive into the copy paste data here . We saw over 40 million copies in the two weeks worth of activity we analyzed. Kyle  Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and  programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada.  You can find him on  Github ,  Twitter , and his  website . There’s lots of info about Cass...

You can follow David on Twitter here . If you want to check out his new book, The Business of Belonging,  the first chapter is available here . You can find out more about CMX here and learn more about Bevy here . Cesar prefers to remain off social media, but you can find him on LinkedIn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

Dave Winer wrote a fun piece on the lost apps of the 80s . We explore the paradox of software that is "too good" to become popular among mainstream consumers.  Microsoft has been releasing new versions of its flagship flight simulator each year for a whopping 38 years now. Now we know what makes it seem so very, very real. But just how big can that next patch be?  Another day, another data breach....

You can find Michelle on Twitter here . You can learn more about building apps with Twilio here . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to TryingToLearn for explaining the error that pops up in Python when: you can't assign to literal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Lots of people who work outside of programming learn Python as part of their job. When folks from telecom, academia, or medical science want to build a web app to help with their job or share their findings with the world, they may feel they need to learn Javascript, CSS, HTML, and half a dozen frameworks to get started.  Anvil is a platform that hopes to enable the creation of great web apps with...

Despite its reputation, there is a Go To for every language. You can dive deeper with the Summer of Go To. There is a lot you can learn from it as a beginner, even if it is worth avoiding as a professional. Paul's children have learned to inspect the element and the document object model. Being deep into computers seems normal in an era of remote school and omnipresent devices.  Who doesn't like m...

You can find Roberta on Twitter . For anyone who understands Portuguese, you can also check out her podcast .  Check out Roberta's recent blog post on best practices, and when to ignore them. If you're interested in Dapper, an open source project built by Stack Overflow folks that works as a simple object mapper .Net, you can check it out here . Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Col...

Shay is a developer advocate building open source tools and writing education content. Outside of work she writes poetry, indulges fad hobbies, and reads whatever’s left out on the coffee table.  Steve Gill a Developer Relations Manager, currently managing the SDK tools team at Slack. The tools teams develops all of our open sourced SDK, such as Bolt for JavaScript, Python, and Java. In his spare...

You can find out more about Suyog and his career here . True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing. He's on Twitter here . You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services here . Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about here . If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the yea...

You can check out more of Tom's work and some of his books on his website, Everything SysAdmin .  Tom also wrote a great blog post for our site that explains his method for crafting a positive feedback loop between Dev and Ops using real-time documentation. You can find Tom on Twitter and check out his books on Sys Admin and   Cloud System Administration . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...

Ian is Brooklyn bred a tech junkie, NBA stats nerd, hip hop connoisseur, and co-creator of GameFlo and Ujima Now . He graduated from Brown University and was a teaching fellow at FullStack Academy before coming to Stack Overflow. You can find him on Twitter and Github . Kyle  Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and  programmer for...

It was a pandemic, Olivia was on maternity leave after giving birth, and she also had a toddler to take care of. Somehow she still managed to build a website, macovidvaccines.com , that provided far better service than what was available through government and private industry. You can find out more about Olivia on the sites below.  Twitter Website LinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/...

Cleghorn works for Defense Digital Services. On Twitter, the group describes itself as  "a SWAT team of nerds on tours of duty."   You can read more about the group's goals on their website .  You can see some of his work over on Hacker One. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week's discussion was inspired by an article from Sandi Metz, which you can find here . It begins with a terrific line, defining the half-life of software as, "the amount of time required for half of an application's code to change so much that it becomes unrecognizable." This topic also connected to a post we ran on the Stack Overflow blog this week,  Sacrificial Architecture: learning from...

You can find  the paper on MuZero here . He blogs at Furidamu and can be found on Twitter here . The story on drug discovery powered by AI can be found here .   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .