A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data.
Dean Ward
Principal Developer
The Overflow #57: /dev/null on demand
Welcome to ISSUE #57 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, teach your kids coding basics with fun apps, draw straight lines by hand, and recreate Minecraft with React in about an hour. From the blog Want to teach your…
Personalized feeds now available on Teams
Stay up-to-date on your teams questions and answers with the new For You feed.
Lori Colston
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD
When people say “CI/CD,” they are only talking about continuous integration. Nobody is talking about (or practicing) continuous deployment. AT ALL. It’s like we have all forgotten it exists. It's time to change that.
The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.
January 22, 2021
Episode 306: Gaming PCs to heat your home, oceans to cool your data centers
If your PC is running hot, maybe there's a good place to invest all that energy.
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January 19, 2021
Podcast 305: What does it mean to be a “senior” software engineer
A chat with Jocelyn Harper about the journey from office manager at a construction company to java programmer at a major tech firm.
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January 15, 2021
Episode 304: Our stack is HTML and CSS
Static? Dynamic? Why not have it all.
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January 12, 2021
Podcast 303: What would you pay for /dev/null as a service?
There is nothing that isn't better as a managed cloud service.
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The Overflow #56: An engineering argument
Welcome to ISSUE #56 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, we say farewell to Winterbash 2020, look for evidence that a program is being emulated, and create a chess AI that matches the skill of a player instead of…
Have the tables turned on NoSQL?
NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?
Want to teach your kids to code? Here are three apps that can help.
Like many of you, I am a coder with kids at home. What better time to start exposing our kids to the career we all think is amazing! You do think programming is amazing, right? 😀 Well, even if you don’t, coding teaches kids the fundamentals of logic and encourages them to think abstractly. Let’s…
The Overflow #55: Great impractical ideas in computer science
Welcome to ISSUE #55 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. It’s a whole new year, and we’re kicking it off with fresh and tasty links: a teardown of the techniques behind the SolarWinds hack, preparing for school-mandated spyware, and how the…
Open source has a funding problem
Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay for it?
Ciao Winter Bash 2020!
Winter Bash 2020 has come to an end. While we’re packing the hats into boxes to put them back on the shelf for next year, let’s take a look at a few hat-wearing avatars that brought a smile to our faces. Catija Rory Alsop Snow Adrian Mole Tsundoku Those are just a few. Check them…
Nicolas Chabanovskii
Community Manager
The Overflow #54: Talking crypto
Welcome to ISSUE #54 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. While we are off for the holidays, we still have some sweet newsletter presents to give: your digital identity and you, dealing with sudden bursts of errors, and the secret origin…