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The Overflow #169: Fear The Frankencode

Coder to instructor, no thanks to take home tests, and DevOps tips
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17 Mar 2023

Let’s Talk Large Language Models (Ep. 546)

The home team unpacks their complicated feelings about AI, the Beyoncé deepfake that got kpop hopes up, and the pandemic’s ripple effects on today’s teenagers. Ben, the world’s worst coder, tells Cassidy and Ceora about building a web app with an AI assistant.
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16 Mar 2023

Can Stack Overflow Save The Day?

Tell us how Stack Overflow helped you and enter to win a limited edition key cap!
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16 Mar 2023

Visible APIs Get Reused, Not Reinvented

How open API specifications can help developers—and computers—understand your APIs.
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15 Mar 2023

Developers Think AI Assistants Will Be Everywhere, But Aren’t Sure How To Feel About It

The things we expect to succeed aren't always the things we're hoping to see more of.
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13 Mar 2023

Building An API Is Half The Battle: Q&A With Marco Palladino From Kong

API gateways, service mesh, and GraphQL, oh my!
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13 Mar 2023

The Overflow #168: Other Words For Technical Debt

Governments and open source, email scraping, and UIs in Rust
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10 Mar 2023

How To Position Yourself To Land The Job You Want

The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.
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9 Mar 2023

After The Buzz Fades: What Our Data Tells Us About Emerging Technology Sentiment

Why open source is the model for every emerging tech out there.
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9 Mar 2023

From Writing Code To Teaching Code

After 37 courses, he's learned a thing or two about teaching.
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7 Mar 2023

“Move Fast And Break Things” Doesn’t Apply To Other People’s Savings (Ep. 544)

Christine Ryu, Engineering Lead at fintech platform Flourish, joins the home team to talk about how technology is transforming finance for everyone from big banks to individual consumers. Christine explains what it’s like to move from Goldman Sachs to a tiny startup, how legacy tech stacks lead to Frankencode, and what an acquisition taught her about build vs. buy and good vs. perfect.
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6 Mar 2023

Five Stack Exchange Sites Turned Ten Years Old This Quarter!

Join us in celebrating English Language Learners, Magento, Reverse Engineering, Sustainable Living, and Tridion on their impressive Stack Exchange journey.
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6 Mar 2023

The Overflow #167: Programmers And ADHD

Edge functions, pair programming, and the newest CSS features
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3 Mar 2023

The Nature Of Simulating Nature: A Q&A With IBM Quantum Researcher Dr. Jamie Garcia (Ep. 543)

Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, tells Ryan about IBM’s 433-qubit quantum computer and the real-life applications of quantum computing today.
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2 Mar 2023

How Intuit Democratizes AI Development Across Teams Through Reusability

We found success in a blended approach to product development—a marriage of the skills and expertise of data, AI, analytics, and software engineering teams—to build a platform powered by componentized AI.
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1 Mar 2023

New Pricing For Stack Overflow For Teams

Although a lot has changed since Stack Overflow launched in 2008, one thing has not: Stack Overflow continues to help people find the answers they need, when they need them. Our platform supports millions of the world's most active developers and technologists who visit every month to ask questions, learn, and share technical knowledge.
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1 Mar 2023

The Open-source Game Engine You’ve Been Waiting For: Godot (Ep. 542)

Juan Linietsky, cofounder and lead developer of the Godot Engine, joins the home team for a conversation about what led him to create an open-source game engine, how open source is shaping game development, and the well-worn path from playing video games to learning to build them.
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27 Feb 2023

Stop Saying “technical Debt”

Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit.
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27 Feb 2023

Why Governments Need Open Source More Than Ever

We face larger than life challenges in our world. Maybe open source's wisdom of the crowds can help solve them.
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26 Feb 2023

The Overflow #166: Writing Code For Other People

Serverless databases, expensive hash functions, and floating point numbers
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24 Feb 2023

ML And AI Consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 541)

The home team talks with Jaclyn Rice Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Tribe AI, about the explosion of hype surrounding generative AI, what it’s like to work at a startup after working at Google, and how Tribe is leveraging the power of a specialist network.
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23 Feb 2023

How Edge Functions Move Your Back End Close To Your Front End

Serverless functions have made computing seamless and fast. but for worldwide audiences, you need to get closer to your user to overcome latency.
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23 Feb 2023

Shorten The Distance Between Production Data And Insight (Ep. 541)

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it.
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22 Feb 2023

Authorization On Rails (Ep. 540)

Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development.
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20 Feb 2023

Are Clouds Having Their On-prem Moment?

While public cloud usage continues to grow, an increasing number are also moving to on-prem private clouds (sometimes even owning and operating their own hardware).
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20 Feb 2023

Developer With ADHD? You’re Not Alone.

Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers?
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19 Feb 2023

The Overflow #165: Your New Favorite Band Is An AI

Secure code and SLDC practices, lossless compression, and tech specs
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17 Feb 2023

Because The Only Thing Worse Than Building Internal Tools Is Maintaining Them (Ep. 539)

David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both!
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16 Feb 2023

Monitoring Debt Builds Up Faster Than Software Teams Can Pay It Off

Today, it’s easier than ever for a team to monitor software in production. But it's also easy to build up a lot of tech debt around monitoring.
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16 Feb 2023

Serverless Scales Well, But Most Databases Don’t

The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database.
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15 Feb 2023

You Don’t Have To Build A Browser In JavaScript Anymore (Ep. 538)

What’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors.
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13 Feb 2023

Coding 102: Writing Code Other People Can Read

That bootcamp may have taught you to write code that works. But the next level is to write code that works with other people.
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13 Feb 2023

The Overflow #164: Is Software Getting Worse?

New SO features, the politics of sudo, and the state of WebAssembly
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10 Feb 2023

Does Your Professor Pass The Turing Test? (Ep. 537)

How can educators (and students) adapt to the inevitable rise of AI?
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9 Feb 2023

Three Layers To Secure A Software Development Organization

This affects the individual developer writing insecure code, the engineering team blindly trusting their dependencies, and the organization thinking that their best bet is to roll their own security controls.
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9 Feb 2023

Engineering’s Hidden Bottleneck: Pull Requests

CI/CD needs a CM—continuous merge—to get the SDLC moving smoothly.
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8 Feb 2023

The AI That Writes Music From Text (Ep. 535)

The home team discusses why it seems like everybody needs subtitles now, the AI that generates music from text, and a list of open-source data engineering projects for you to contribute to.
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6 Feb 2023

The Nature Of Simulating Nature: Q&A With IBM Quantum Computing Research

We chat with Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, about their 433 qubit quantum computer and what the real life applications of quantum computing are today.
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6 Feb 2023

The Overflow #163: Most Loved Vs. Most Questions

Less JS mess, cows vs. tornadoes, and PNG
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3 Feb 2023

Why Developer Experience Is The Key To Better Software, Straight From The OCTO’s Mouth (Ep. 534)

A seven-point manifesto for driving lasting innovation.
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2 Feb 2023

Announcing More Ways To Learn And Grow Your Skills

Now you can discover relevant online courses from Pluralsight® and Udemy® on Stack Overflow.
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1 Feb 2023

CEO Update: Eliminating Obstacles To Productivity, Efficiency, And Learning

It was a busy and successful quarter, so although my first update of 2023 takes place in a fundamentally different environment than my first of 2022, my optimism for the future has not changed. It’s simply joined by a dose of pragmatism.
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31 Jan 2023

What Do The Tech Layoffs Really Tell Us? (Ep. 533)

The home team convenes to talk about how tech layoffs are reshaping the industry, where to look for software engineering jobs beyond tech, the brain-computer interface that speeds up communication for people with paralysis, and Ben’s million-dollar game idea (free for the stealing).
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30 Jan 2023

Is Software Getting Worse?

With all the advancements in software development, apps could be much better. Why aren't they?
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30 Jan 2023

The Overflow #162: The Great Testing Flake Off

New Collective for Azure, the logic of the universe, and !document.write().
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27 Jan 2023

The Less JavaScript, The Better (Ep. 532)

Convert unused JavaScript into lightweight HTML...oh that feels so good.
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26 Jan 2023

Comparing Tag Trends With Our Most Loved Programming Languages

The Most Loved languages are those that appeal to veteran developers.
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26 Jan 2023

How Chaos Engineering Preps Developers For The Ultimate Game Day (Ep. 531)

In complex systems, you usually want to minimize chaos. Unless you're trying to find weak spots. In that case, chaos is your friend.
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25 Jan 2023

AI Applications Open New Security Vulnerabilities

Your ML model and AI-as-a-service apps might open new attack surfaces. Here's how to mitigate them.
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24 Jan 2023

From Your Lips To AI’s Ears (Ep. 530)

The team talks about voice-to-code features, how game developers built accessibility into God of War, and why lab-grown meat is officially safe to eat (hail seitan!).
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23 Jan 2023

How To Build A Universal Computation Machine With Tetris (Ep. 529)

Using only Tetris, you can build a machine capable of universal computation.
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20 Jan 2023

The Overflow #161: Git Isn’t The Only Game In Town

Side project to C-suite, historical telescope lenses, and 3D CSS.
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20 Jan 2023

Minimizing The Downsides Of Dynamic Programming Languages

Dynamic languages allow for a lot of flexibility in typing — sometimes too much. Here's how to add some guardrails to your code.
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19 Jan 2023

How Intuit Improves Security, Latency, And Development Velocity With A Service Mesh

Find out about all the features the mesh adds to a service architecture automatically.
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18 Jan 2023

Microsoft Azure Joins Collectives™ On Stack Overflow

There’s now a destination on Stack Overflow for all things Azure.
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17 Jan 2023

Flake It Till You Make It: How To Detect And Deal With Flaky Tests (Ep. 528)

But it works on my machine at least half the time!
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17 Jan 2023

The Overflow #160: Looking Back At Hat Cafe 2022

Data reqs for ML, detonate vs. explode, and the top 100 Pens for 2022.
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13 Jan 2023

Commit To Something Big: All About Monorepos (Ep. 527)

Everything you need to know about monorepos — and the tools to build them.
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12 Jan 2023

Stack Gives Back 2022!

Let’s start the year on a high note! We’re excited to announce our 14th Stack Gives Back.
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12 Jan 2023

Taming Multiple Design Systems With A Single Plugin (Ep. 526)

We chat about how their design system is evolving into a platform, how AI keeps their brand consistent, and why a design system doesn’t have to solve every use case.
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11 Jan 2023

From CS Side Project To The C-suite (Ep. 525)

The best way to know why your users were rage clicking? Check the instant replay.
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9 Jan 2023

Beyond Git: The Other Version Control Systems Developers Use

Our developer survey found 93% of developers use Git. But what are the other 7% using?
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9 Jan 2023

The Overflow #159: Our Top Blog Posts (part 2)

Reading academic papers, hidden spam links, and language in the brain
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6 Jan 2023

Our Favorite Apps, Books, And Games Of 2023 (Ep. 524)

From BeReal to RetroPi, we look back at what brought us joy last year.
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5 Jan 2023

The Winter/Summer Bash 2022 Hat Cafe Is Now Closed!

We had fun celebrating Winter Bash 2022 with you all! While we’ve closed our cafe, let’s look at a few highlights and hat-wearing avatars that brought us joy this holiday season.
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5 Jan 2023