The Stack Overflow Podcast

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...

Gone in a Flash. Actually it took quite a while. Adobe explains its decision to stop supporting Flash here . You can learn more about Ruffle , the Flash emulator written in Rust, here . Here are some tips on writing a developer resume from a hiring manager who's written an entire book on the topic. You can read more about the Supreme Court case considering the limits of the Computer Fraud and Abus...

You can find more about Resner here .  Learn more about the topics we discussed by following some of Resner's suggested links below:  People to follow on Twitter: Safyia Noble , Ruha Benjamin , and Kamal Sinclair. Ellen Pao and Project Include. Eli Pariser and New Public by Civic Signals. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

You can read more about the operating systems and business principles schools are adopting from their corporate sponsors here . You can read about the latest version of Tailwind and what it has to offer here .    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 Ferdinandi's post and video here . 12 years ago, back when Stack Overflow was a brand new site with just a few thousand users, someone asked a basic question: What is the difference between a framework and a library? FreeCodeCamp has its own take on this question with a pretty interesting answer. "When you use a library, you are in charge of the flow of the application. You are choosi...

You can find out more about Sir Berners-Lee's work on Solid here . Other topics discussed in this episode:  Docker puts a limit on free containers . That has to be good for the environment. But is it also good for Docker and the future of its products? Sometimes, forcing yourself to make something worth purchasing  helps drive innovation.  The Tao of Programming isn't new, and some of its technica...

You can learn more about the Power of 10 here .  TIOBE's latest index can be found here . Our lifeboat of the week goes to lealceldeiro for answering the question: What does the multi: true attribute of HTTP_INTERCEPTORS mean? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Paul spent the weekend building a parser, cause who doesn't? He needed a Regex, found one on Stack Overflow, looked over the characters, and realized this is not the way to get folks interested or excited about code. "You come across a problem and you think to yourself, I know I'll use a regular expression. Now you have two problems."  This sets Sara off on a tangent about CSS. What's wrong with C...