The Stack Overflow Podcast

We're officially part of the Prosus family now that the acquisition has closed. It’s a huge milestone and a big deal for our company and community. Prosus has a global reach and will help us meet the needs of developers and technologists everywhere.  Have no fear: there will not be a paywall on the community sites. We have separate free and paid products for a reason.  We combined our Ads and Tale...

Ethan started his career when the marquee tag was king and is bullish on its comeback.  His focus as an investor is on developer tools & infrastructure, open source software, space, and emerging compute. We talk about his time as a Product Group Leader at Facebook, and his strong feelings on the state of DevOps. You can find his investor profile here , his blog here , and on Twitter here . Our...

Mason began his career as a developer, went on to be a CEO, but also found time to produce 80s alt rock album full of advice on how to run your startup. Slack began life as a video game company, eventually pivoting to make an internal chat tool it had built into its main business. Descript had a similar journey, taking  the editing software Mason and his team developed at Detour, and moving it to...

Mark started out on a 4k TRS-80. He had to program it in assembly language, as there wasn't enough memory to use the local Basic copy. Throughout his career, he's oscillated between using databases and building databases. He started at Caltech and NASA, using databases to store and organize space data and chip data. Then he built databases at Oracle, including versions, 5 6, 7, and 8. After that i...

This year over 80,000 respondents took the time to share their feedback on the tools and trends that are shaping software development. We learned a lot about the way developers learn. For the rising cohort of coders under the age of 18, online resources like videos and blogs are more popular than books and school combined, a statistic that doesn’t hold for any of our other age cohorts.  Roughly...

We chat discrete mathematics, differential privacy, and homomorphic encryption. But don't worry, we also break it down in laymen's terms. Interested in working in security? Mahmoud will personally extend an offer to anyone who solves this puzzle . Puzzles not your thing? You can still learn more about Very Good Security and its open positions here . Mahmoud is on Twitter here.     See Privacy Poli...

You can read Max's full article on Kubernetes on our blog here . You can find Max on Twitter here and his personal website here . Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is Mantas, who answered the question: Determine if all the values in a PHP array are null See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Beaudette cut his teeth in the days of AOL chat rooms, then became an early Wikipedian. More recently he worked at Reddit, where his team of ten professional community managers supported 300 million monthly unique visitors. Before his recent promotion to VP,  Beaudette was on the Trust and Safety team at Stack Overflow.  For more detail on his experience, check out his LinkedIn here . Our lifefboa...

You can find Tara on  Twitter here.  Sam is on Twitter here . You can learn more about Loveshark's latest games and the roles they are hiring for here . Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Elliott Frisch, for answering the question: Convert list of integer into comma separated string?     See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

You can find some fun video of Cassidy putting Copilot to the test here . If you want to take the Jamstack survey, check it out here . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Andomar, who answered the question: Will multiple calls to `now()` in a single postgres query always give same result?     See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

We discuss how Simões learned to code and the feature set that allowed Poker Now to differentiate itself in a crowded space.  Simões shares the tech stack he used to craft the first version of Poker Now, and how he rebuilt the service after it crashed under the weight of a massive wave of new users. During the peak of lockdown, his site went from an average of 100 concurrent users to more than 10,...

If you want to catch up on the first half of the episode, you can find it here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The massive shift to remote work that so many companies undertook over the last year has pushed many to adopt an asynchronous, merge driven workflow that has been pioneered and perfected by software developers. With tools like Airtable , and Coda , the boundary between programming and other forms of media and knowledge work is beginning to blur.  What happened to Google Wave ? Can products with pa...

You can learn more about Lightship, Niantic's AR SDK, here . They are hiring developers, and openings can be found here . Richard can be found on LinkedIn here .  Kelly can be found on LinkedIn here . A big thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Karim, for answering the question: Check if value exists in Array object Javascript or Angular?     See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

As explained in this piece , "A headless CMS is a back-end only content management system (CMS) built from the ground up as a content repository that makes content accessible via a RESTful API or GraphQL API for display on any device." Shopify has leaned hard into GraphQL and APIs in general.  The goal, as Coates describes it, is to allow developers to bring their own stack to the front-end, but p...

If you're full up on technical content and just want funny retweets, follow Adam on Twitter here If you're interested in learning more about tag pages, check out what the community created for Rust . Thanks to Peter Cordes, our lifeboat badge winner of the week, for answering the question: How can I accurately benchmark unaligned access speed on x86_64? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

You can check out all the details about Collectives in our launch post here . We detailed the user research that allowed our community to help shape this product in a Meta post here . Teresa is on Twitter here and Jascha is on LinkedIn here .   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

We chatted with three guests: Miguel Jetté : Head of AI R&D Josh Dong : AI Engineering Manager Jenny Drexler : Senior Speech Scientist When Jette was studying mathematics in the early 2000s, his focus was on computational biology, and more specifically, phylogenetic trees, and DNA sequences. He wanted to understand the evolution of certain traits and the forces that explain why our bones are a...

Bligh explains her love for front end and the simple pleasure of bringing a designer’s vision to life We also talk about making the transition from journalism and digital media to the world of software development.  You can find her on Twitter here . You can check out Contact here . Learn more about Makers here . Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is Rami Amro Ahmed, who answered the question:...

You can check out some more of Henley's work on his blog here . Recent pieces include:  A theory of how developers seek information All my career rejections Navigate your code like it's 2021   Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? An inquisitive code editor: Overcome bugs before you know you have them How much time does the average developer spend typing in their editor versus research...

You can find Jenn on Twitter here . She is the creator of the wonderful website, make8bitart.com .  You can check out Glitch here and dig into some of its WebXR projects . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Ruberandinda Patience , who explained why you got a 404 Not Found, even though the route exist in Laravel . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

Karl is interested in the use of low code tools to extend development work beyond the engineering department. He also believes this approach, when done properly, allows teams to release new iterations more rapidly. Check out his company, draft.dev . Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn . This week's lifefboat badge goes to Günter Zöchbauer , who explained: How to use 2 mixins in State in Flutter?   S...

Innocent is  a research associate at the MIT Gov /Lab . You can find him on Twitter here . Luke is the Founder and Executive Director of the civic technology organization Grassroot , as a practitioner-in-residence in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter here . Our lifeboat of the week goes to John Rotenstein, who explained: Why some services are called “AWS XXX” and the others “Amazon XXX” .   See...

You can read more about Spiros on his LinkedIn or Twitter . There is some good backstory on his first company, Log Insight, here . A rundown of the acquisition that led to Spiros joining Splunk is here . There are also some interesting details in Splunk's blog on the deal, which calls out Omnition as a "a stealth-mode SaaS company that is innovating in distributed tracing, improving monitoring acr...

You can check out our piece how developers can be their own operations department here . Our piece on preventing scope creep while working from home is here . You can follow Mike on Twitter here and learn more about building apps for Slack here . This week's lifeboat badge goes to averroes for helping us to : Check if integer == null   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...