Modern apps have been engineered to capture your attention. We explore how to break free and find more focus for your own programming.
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Welcome to ISSUE #109 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what the Great Resignation means for developers, the team helping underserved communities build their own LTE networks, and why Canon is telling customers how to defeat its DRM. From…
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Are occasional disasters among widely used open source projects inevitable, or can we find a way to better fund maintainers and security?
The post Who’s going to pay to fix open source security? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #108 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: UX headaches, the clear downsides of phantom braking, and testing with real dependencies instead of mockup or fakes.  From the blog Favor real dependencies for unit testing stackoverflow.blogWhich dependencies should…
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Modern DevOps could learn a few things from industrialized hackers.
The post Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

One of our most loved traditions is Stack Gives Back. Every year since 2009, we've surveyed Stack Exchange moderators about charities they would like to support and then donated $100 on behalf of each moderator.
The post Stack Gives Back 2021 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Ben, Ryan, and Cassidy talk with Esther Jang, Matt Johnson, and Chris Webb of Seattle’s Local Connectivity Lab, a nonprofit that works in concert with the University of Washington to facilitate community-focused technology development and research.
The post Podcast 405: Helping communities build their own LTE networks appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Nearly two years into the pandemic, many Americans are reevaluating their relationship with work.
The post The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #107 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. New year, new newsletter! We’re getting back into gear, so please enjoy our top five blog posts, including our number one, which dug deep into the mountain of code that is…
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Today’s episode is bookended by two questions about professional or academic ethics.
The post Podcast 403: Professional ethics and phantom braking appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #106 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. While we are on holidays this week, please enjoy the first half of our top ten blog posts of the year, the final podcast of 2021, and the fallout of the…
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April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
The post How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer.
The post I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages.
The post What I wish I had known about single page applications appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges software development has for SpaceX's many missions.
The post Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #105 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Hat season on Stack Exchange, an oral history of Stack Overflow to mark our 400th (!) podcast episode, and how to build a high-velocity DevOps culture. From the blog…
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In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
The post Best practices can slow your application down appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

If there is one thing developers like less than writing documentation, it's responding to unnecessary escalations.
The post “This should never happen. If it does, call the developers.” appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

How teaching beginners can highlight the concepts that you've internalized too much.
The post Podcast 402: Teaching developers about the most lightweight web “framework” around, VanillaJS appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #104 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Fixing bugs to set a world record, the tools making vision AI more accessible, open-source code security, and what developers really want in a job. From the blog Smashing…
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College isn't the only way to get a dev job these days. And employers increasingly don't look for degrees.
The post Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

For our 400th episode, an oral history of Stack Overflow from founding team: Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Geoff Dalgas, and Jarrod Dixon.
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Recently, Stack Overflow’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Teresa Dietrich, sat down with Justin Stone, Senior Director of Secure DevOps Platforms at Liberty Mutual, for a conversation about building a high-velocity DevOps culture.
The post A conversation about how to enable high-velocity DevOps culture at your organization appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #103 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Get your metrics straight to speed up product delivery, eat your cereals to found civilization, and dazzle ‘em with animated website entrances. From the blog The four engineering metrics…
The post The Overflow #103: Does modern parenting require spyware? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

How many bug fixes does it take to set a world record?
The post Smashing bugs to set a world record: AWS BugBust appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Are your TikTok confessions GDPR-compliant?
The post Podcast 398: Feeling insecure about code’s security appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #102 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: Talking turkey on the cooking Stack Exchange site, fuel efficiency in rocket ships, and building 3D scenes in React Three Fiber.
The post The Overflow #102: Clouds for the independent developer appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Are you regretting not getting your .eth site? You're not alone.
The post Podcast 397: Is crypto the key to a democratizing the metaverse? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #101 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: QA for deep learning pipelines, getting efficient with summation formulas, and finding the point where a table is too big. From the blog Building a QA process for your…
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Big enterprise clients looking for "lift and shift" are lucrative clients in the cloud market. But there are also millions of independent developers who need cloud tech at their scale.
The post Podcast 395: Who is building clouds for the independent developer? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #100 of The Overflow! We think that’s a pretty big deal, but everyone using binary isn’t as impressed. This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: systematizing the interface design for 3D spaces, a quirk of document.all that shows up when…
The post The Overflow #100! Web3! .NET 6! We love numbers! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Get your Benjamins before they blow up.
The post Podcast 394: what if you could invest in your favorite developer? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

We’re thrilled to announce a new and foundational feature, Content Health, that helps to intelligently identify and surface potentially outdated or inaccurate knowledge—content that needs to change.
The post Introducing Content Health, a new way to keep the knowledge base up-to-date appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Can you type at the speed of thought?
The post Podcast 393: 250 words per minute on a chorded keyboard? Only if you can think that fast. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Deep learning models still need testing, but many of the common testing approaches don't apply. But with the right methods, you can still make sure your pipeline produces good results.
The post Building a QA process for your deep learning pipeline in practice appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #99 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: big problems for people who can’t solve small problems, the nerdiest argument over a Dungeons and Dragons roll, and using the golden ratio in user interface design. From the…
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French, Swahili, Perl, Danish, Spanish, and C#.
The post Podcast 392: Do polyglots have an edge when it comes to mastering programming languages? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Design systems enable developers and designers to rapidly develop products that are consistent across all platforms. Existing design standards could be directly applied in the Metaverse. But many other concepts, unique to 3D environments, required a lot of definition.
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Welcome to ISSUE #98 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: the home team talks through their first ten years in programming, ways to cope with murderous wizards, and science goes too far by rendering DOOM via checkboxes. From the blog…
The post The Overflow #98: Front end: JavaScript. Back end: Also JavaScript. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

It’s been nearly two years since Stack Overflow for Teams launched its integration with Microsoft Teams. As one of our inaugural integrations, we worked closely with Microsoft to form a meaningful partnership that paves the way for future Stack Overflow for Teams integrations.  Since that launch, scores of our customers have used it to get…
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