Podcast 285: Turning your coding career into an RPG
Before you can wield the power of the lightboard and explain cloud technologies, you must slay a lot of first level slimes.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Yearly Archives: 2020
Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change.
The Overflow #46: What does it mean to be a product-led company
Welcome to ISSUE #46 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: Our CEO looks back on his first year at Stack Overflow, spiders teach us some math, and the release of React App 4.0. Enjoy! From the blog Communities and…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist - Former
Podcast 284: pros and cons of the SPA
In this episode we discuss the rise of the Single Page Application, or SPA. From humble beginnings around 2003, it has come to be a dominant approach for many large tech companies and an alluring option for smaller startups. But for simpler web projects, are there better alternatives? Pawel Skolski wrote this definition of the SPA in…
Ben Popper
Director of Content
How to lead with clarity and empathy in the remote world
2020 has brought changes and challenges for everyone—including those in leadership roles. Management style and decision-making have taken on new significance during these testing times as staff’s quality of life—as well as company growth—hang in the balance. In this newly remote world, it can be difficult to figure out the best ways to support and…
Podcast 283: Cleaning up the cloud to help fight climate change
It's really easy to spin up a project in the cloud these days. So easy, millions of abandoned apps are actually contributing to global warming.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
What’s so great about Go?
We explore the traits that have led to the rising popularity of the Go programming language.
John Biggs and Ben Popper
The Overflow #45: What we call CI/CD is actually only CI.
Welcome to ISSUE #45 of the Overflow! This week: why the meaning of 60Hz depends on whether you are a monitor or a lightbulb, how the community team smashed 631 tickets in just two weeks, and why what we call CI/CD is actually only CI.
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist - Former
Podcast 282: Stack Overflow’s CEO reflects on his first year
One year ago, Prashanth Chandrasekar joined Stack Overflow as CEO. In this episode, he reflects on the last 12 months and shares his plans for the year ahead.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Communities and Connections will power our growth in 2021
Our CEO looks back on his first 12 months at Stack Overflow and shares his thoughts on what we're planning for the future.
Making the most of your one-on-one with your manager or other leadership
As many offices go fully remote, learning how to approach key meetings with your manager can pay big dividends.
