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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 early web went from bright idea to surfable sites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C!-- \u002Fwp:paragraph -->\n\n\u003C!-- wp:heading -->\n\u003Ch2 id=\"h-from-the-blog\">From the blog\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003C!-- \u002Fwp:heading -->\n\n\u003C!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2021\u002F01\u002F01\u002Fpodcast-300-welcome-to-2021-with-joel-spolsky\u002F?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_overflow_newsletter\">\u003Cstrong>Podcast 300: Welcome to 2021 with Joel Spolsky\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Cem>stackoverflow.blog\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>We are stepping into a new year with a very special guest, Stack Overflow’s co-founder and chairman, Joel Spolsky. 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