Welcome to ISSUE #38 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, a look at the staying power of object-oriented programming, the olden days of backing up a hard drive to a ton of CDs, the top five most irritating web features for the blind.
From the blog
If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? stackoverflow.blog OOP has been wildly successful. But was the success just a coincidence? And can it still offer something unique in 2020 that other programming paradigms cannot?
Podcast 266: Ok, who vandalized Wikipedia? stackoverflow.blog Teaching your kids to respect The Commons should start early and last a lifetime.
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Interesting questions
Is it legal to copy a software license text from other companies to write my own? law.stackexchange.com What kind of license do I need to license your license?
What are these .000, .001, etc. files and how do I read them? softwareengineering.stackexchange.com Are you also getting nostalgic about backing up a hard drive to 20 CDs?
Does it ever make sense to use more concurrent processes than processor cores? softwareengineering.stackexchange.com You can have as many threads as you want as long as they're doing nothing.
Can we write comments within variable names? stackoverflow.com We've heard of self-documenting variables, but this is ridiculous.
Links from around the web
The five most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day bighack.org Here's an incredibly useful and practical guide to accessibility from the perspective of someone who needs to use assistive technologies.
Beginner's guide to creating a Node.js server dev.to If you've never spun up a Node.js server before, here's a great guide on how to get started.
Introducing Danfo.js, a Pandas-like Library in JavaScript blog.tensorflow.org The Tensorflow team released a new library similar to the pandas Python library for high-performance data structures for manipulating and processing data.
Arwes - Sci-Fi UI Framework arwes.dev Want the sci-fi look on your websites without building it from scratch? This is a great new UI framework to help you out!