The Stack Overflow Podcast

You can find Sai's videos here . Come for the deep dives on Docker , stay for the live lightboard  magic. Yes, I know what the comments say, but no, he isn't writing backwards.  Sai also does a lot of work around OpenShift , the containerization software products created by Red Hat. He talks about what the tie up between IBM and Red Hat has been like and how the enterprise is increasingly learning...

Pawel Skolski wrote this definition of the SPA in 2016. "A single-page application is an app that works inside a browser and does not require page reloading during use. You are using these type of applications every day. These are, for instance: Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook or GitHub. SPAs are all about serving an outstanding UX by trying to imitate a “natural” environment in the browser — no page...

You can find some more of Holly's work and bio here .  She gave a great talk at KubeCon 2020, How to Love K8s and Not Wreck the Planet , which you can watch on YouTube here . And here's a lovely presentation, Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken DevOps Cultures , drawing on her long history of programming and consulting.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

You can find a more in depth discussion of these topics on our blog . Prashanth shares his ideas about the importance of community and what it means to be a product led company. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nicolas will be the first to tell you that the version of Stack Overflow he helped to create began as a clone . It developed into a very popular site on RuNet and through persistent emails, Nic was able to find a way to make it an official part of the Stack family.  Nic talks a bit about the unique culture of SO's Russian community and how each regional version of SO, from English to Spanish to Ja...

We break down some thoughts on this issue, which came to light after a tweet from Tim Nolet . Later in the episode we talk about the debate raging right now around elections and technology. What role should software play and where is regulation appropriate?  Last but not least, we consider what the next US administration might do with regards to regulating big tech. Will they lean towards a Europe...

You can find Kelsey on Twitter here . His Github is here . His personal journey with Kubernetes is detailed in a nice piece here . Kelsey has an interesting role at Google. He sits at the director level but is an independent contributor with no direct reports. Instead he works to help galvanize interest in particular tools and topics, driving adoption at a broad scale.  See Privacy Policy at https...

That skit made it to the front page of Reddit, and was soon seen across the internet. It's nice to make people laugh, but following the surge of interest, Emily also had to deal with severe harassment and cyber stalking. She wrote a piece about the experience which you can find here . In this episode, we discuss how moderation can be improved and the work that remains to be done to make the softwa...

Has there ever been a gaming company that brought more joy to the world than Nintendo? They were making playing cards back in 1889 and continue to find ways to be different but fun with inventions like the Switch and Labo. Sara gives us some the scoop on Rimworld. Check out the trailer here and feel free to lend your skill to a new mod if you have ideas for how to improve it. A Excel sheet meltdow...

You can find some of Jack's art and other projects  here . Ben breaks through and answers his first SO question —by copy/pasting from the comments, of course.  Sara finds the relevant XKCD . Later, we check out Darling.hq, a MacOS translation layer for Linux  If you are in the mood to learn programming with colors and shapes, check out the website that Jack built: Maria.cloud  See Privacy Policy a...

Sara shares the story of a developer conference that was smoke bombed by an Arduino bot gone haywire. It was this chaos that inspired her to dig deeper into Arduino, which would eventually play a big role in helping her to found her company, Jewelbots .  Paul unravels the mystery of what's really inside the Goonie Box: a timepiece, puzzle, and mechanical wonder that Guido uses to test his house gu...

Today's episode was inspired by a question on folks who postpone a merge for fear of being the one to resolve a conflict. Shout out to Candied Orange for the thoughtful answer. Paul and Sara reminisce about the days before Git, when version control was very different from what it is today, and Paul accidentally left many a project in shambles. Do you remember the days of Subversion and CVS ?  Late...

Chris is the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as Makers: The New Industrial Revolution . He is lso the CEO of 3DR , founder of the Linux Foundation's Dronecode Project , and founder of the DIY Drones and DIY Robocars communities, including the ArduPilot autopilot project. Not surprisingly, he also created something called GeekDad. If you want to get inv...

"Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood." Life is lived in stages. Most people are working remotely these days, but offices may return, and even if they don't, these skills could come in handy. Teamwork, persuasion, communication, and leadership, just a few of the things you can learn in this Technion course. Big thanks to Twili...

You can check out more about the Github news here . Here is the farewell to updates from Moment.js. Would you take a nice bonus today for a pay cut in the future? Stripe is offering its employees that option, spurred by an exodus of developers from dense urban areas.  A big thanks to Jim Mischel, who was our lifeboat badge winner of the week.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...

Oracle is in the midst of trying to negotiate and get approved a deal that would allow it to acquire Tik Tok's US Operations, and allow Tik Tok to avoid a ban on its service in the United States. For US citizens, software being banned over geopolitical concerns is a new reality.  What will happen to the code if the deal goes through? Is there a clean room where software updates are inspected befor...

Sophie founded Rest of World in 2019 after a decade of living and working across Asia, Africa & the Middle East, and with companies like Uber and Xiaomi. She graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Kennedy School and Princeton University. Sophie is based in New York. Read why she started this publication in her founder’s note . You can subscribe to Rest of World's newslett...

Along with her work writing and editing, Stephanie works as a product manager at Microsoft and runs Developer Content Digest, a biweekly newsletter with content tips. She has worked for companies like Digital Ocean, Github, and General Assembly. Twitter:  @radiomorillo eBooks: developersguidetocontent.com Newsletter and blog: stephaniemorillo.co/links   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

Every experienced software engineer can tell you a story about a standardization effort that ended up causing more problems than it solved. Queen Elizabeth's decree adding 280 feet to each mile made it easy to divide up acres, but has haunted those of us stuck with Imperial units ever since.  Sara dives into micro frontend services and how they can help to add agility to a modern development team....

You can read the hilarious tale of how Paul was alerted to "Frenchpoop Butt" here . Enjoy an all time classic tale of a security expert being outwitted by his daughter. Her approach was not in his threat model.  Want to try your hand at a little hacking? Here's a fun online game called Telehack . We asked some teens what would motivate them to participate more on Stack. The answer was obvious: loo...

It's dependencies all the way down ... Remote learning is a bad joke . Who has ideas for some tech or gaming inspired solutions?  What's your favorite way to refer to software of very large size ? Everyone's got their favorite nickname for that big ol' pile of code.  Lemon juice is recommended in lots of natural cures and remedies. But could it also be MELTING YOUR BONES?   See Privacy Policy at h...

Here is the Reddit comment that inspired us to reach out to Garry.  This is the Vice news article that started the thread.  As you can see, the ban has affected a lot of books that would seem to have little bearing on cybersecurity. "Rejected books that are geared towards hacking, such as Justin Seitz’s Black Hat Python, may represent a clearer threat to the Department of Corrections, which fears...

Our guests this week were two of our employees: Yaakov Ellis and Stephanie Cantor. Yaakov is a Principal Web Developer, Community Advocate on the Public Platform team at Stack Overflow, and Former Team Lead for Internal Development at Stack. Stephanie is the Program Manager for Community Strategy at Stack.  Want to learn more about how the Community-athon worked? Read up on it here . And yes, of c...

To start things off, we talk about the launch of Articles, a new content type for Stack Overflow Teams that lets you write longer, subjective pieces. Sometimes it's best to share knowledge through Q&A, but other times you've got complicated, narrative, DevOps recipes or a policy paper and FAQ. Now your knowledge artifacts can all live in one place.  "The FAQ is the great folk form of the inter...

Juvoni describes himself as someone who helps people explore ideas and strategies for improvement. He focuses on combining multiple skills, better thinking and tools for thought, inner engineering healthy habits, and discovering how systems in the world affect us. You can follow him on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/juvoni You can join the Personal Development Nerds Facebook group here: https://www...