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workplace.stackexchange.com

Senior engineer suddenly unwilling to do extra work they used to do after being denied promotion

Oh really? Hmmm…I wonder why…

physics.stackexchange.com

Is velocity defined in the instant a body hits the ground?

Important context is that the player is seven-years old.

rpg.stackexchange.com

How to deal with a player who wants to run away?

Important context is that the player is seven-years old.

gaming.stackexchange.com

Why do some simple/early achievements have a very low unlock percentage?

Don't hate the player, hate the game mode.

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What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026

For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong.

Your 2025 Stacked: A year of knowledge, community, and impact

From tough questions to standout answers, your team built a lot in 2025. Your 2025 Stacked brings those contributions together in one shareable snapshot—celebrating the people, posts, and topics that defined your year in Stack Internal.

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computerhistory.org

Computer History Museum launches digital portal to its vast collection

So much defunct tech it almost rivals my own collection of unused charger cables and dead batteries.

matklad.github.io

make.ts

Leave the "Up Enter Up Up Enter" spamming for when you play Street Fighter.

skills.sh

The agent skills directory

Doesn’t the "skill-lookup" skill in the agents skill directory seem a bit redundant?

research.checkpoint.com

VoidLink: Evidence that the era of advanced AI-generated malware has begun

The vibe code has hacked the mainframe!

potaroo.net

IP addresses through 2025

“Gretchen, stop trying to make IPv6 happen! It's not going to happen!"

seangoedecke.com

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

If the idealists are all cynics and the cynics are all idealists, who’s driving this bus?

media.mit.edu

Your brain on ChatGPT

Your brain on drugs was a cracked egg. Your brain on ChatGPT is a cracked egg with an em dash.

mike.tech

The death of software development

Software development is dead…long live software development.

github.com

Lock picking robot

If the guys who stole the crown jewels from the Louvre had robots on their team, maybe they wouldn't have been caught so quickly.

hackernoon.com

The long now of the web: inside the Internet Archive’s fight against forgetting

Here's how the Internet Archive is helping us never forget all the embarrassing things you posted on Myspace.

dmvaldman.github.io

Training my watch to track intelligence

Smartwatches are getting...intelligent!

chrisgregori.dev

Code is cheap now. Software isn’t.

Anyone can code. Not anyone can craft great software.

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Issue 314: Development is all fun and games

Hey, you. Yeah, you. Wanna play a game? How about some whack-a-mole? It’s better to do it with us than with your cybersecurity. Ariful Huq and Marco Rodrigues from Exaforce know all about that—this week, we have a Q&A with them on how to turn your security from guesswork into a reliable system. Maybe we can play some Guess Who? instead—something you absolutely don’t want to be doing with your MCP server. On our blog, Dan Moore from FusionAuth shared how to protect your MCP servers from unauthorized access. Perhaps you’re more in the mood to play outside…maybe blow some bubbles? Well, we hate to pop them, but Michael Parker from TurinTech joined us for a chat about getting developers out of their bubbles to deal with the new world of AI-generated tech debt. Put the iPad away, kids. There’s still plenty of fun and games in this issue. If you miss the days of finger painting, you can still be an artist—just design some universal frontend interfaces. But beware, Xano’s Prakash Chandran told us on the pod the ways that might be harder than you think. Fine, you can have your iPad…there’s plenty of ways to make art during screen time. For instance, you can take a screenshot of a screenshot, which is basically the same thing as the original, right? Our Philosophy site is pondering just that. If you’re less of an artist and more of a writer, we can play some MadLibs with the English Language exchange—what word should we put after “neither”? Got your childish whimsy out of the way? Because this issue just got serious. Enough with the games—let’s talk closed questions. That’s right, we’ve even got a Meta discussion for you this week. If you’re enjoying being an iPad kid, just wait until you find out what your brain looks like on ChatGPT. We have that research report—plus stories on the death of software, developer cynicism, and the decline of IP addresses—down below. No games or funny business, we promise.

Issue 313: A little something for every dev

It's issue 313 of the Overflow and we've got a little something for everyone in this one. Whether you're leading a tech team, on a tech team, or just coding for fun on the side, our pod is ripe for the picking with great interviews this week. The indomitable Scott Hanselman returned to the show to dive into the good, the bad, and the promising of vibe coding for developers. On Leaders of Code, IBM's CIO of Technology Platform Transformation Matt Lyteson joined our very own Jody Bailey to chat about what it takes for an enterprise like IBM to successfully adopt AI. Plus, David Yanacek, Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, told us all about AWS's origin story when we caught up with him at re:Invent. The blog is also crossing generational borders this week. Are you a veteran tech leader? Our top eight lessons from Leaders of Code is the read for you. Are you a recent grad trying to break it into the industry? We've got every tech story from 2025 you should know, ready for you on the blog. Are you someone more experienced, but still looking to learn? Check out how we're keeping Stack Overflow a great place to learn by fighting spam. And of course, we've packed this issue to the brim with stories and answers from our sites and around the web. Learn how to deal with a headstrong coworker or create a lock-picking robot. Figure out if reality could exist without logic and then explore the history of Internet Archive. Make your smartwatch really smart and then level up your hands. We have all of those ready for you in the links below.

Issue 312: Running and crawling your AI bots

We're all ears this week with three pods for your listening pleasure on everything from bots to ecommerce to ROI. Akamai data scientist Robert Lester joined us to talk about the rise in AI bots—surprisingly, they're not that much different from the search engine bots of ye olden days. Vanessa Lee from Shopify joined the show to discuss the AI renaissance and how it's changing personalized experiences in ecommerce. We've also got an episode with MongoDB's Pete Johnson this week on the secret sauce of AI ROI (spoiler alert: it's quality engineers), and why AI is not actually a job killer. If you'd like to give your weary ears a rest, we've got plenty of stories for you from all over Stack Overflow and the web. We're scanning both ends of the timeline: check out our retrospective of the biggest updates to Stack Overflow from 2025 and a look forward at our plans for our much-beloved Q&A site in the New Year. All of these updates have us feeling pretty giddy, like the AI euphoria feeling one of the pieces this week is all about. But not everything in this issue is about the shiny and new—we've also got the age-old battle of software design vs clean code, slowing things down to 1x speed, and the joy of being terrible at something as a beginner. Now that your eyes and ears are open, we've got a few questions for you. How loosely do you define "free software"? Can you hear that really low sound or is it just us? Does our smile look phalanx-like to you...should we go see a dentist about that? If you need answers, we have all of them and more in the links below.

Issue 311: Your line on information in the new year

Can you believe you haven't read an Overflow since last year? Fine, fine, we'll keep our corny jokes about "not showering since last year" in 2025. We're closing out our top ten blog countdown with five more stories for you on everything from documentation to vibe coding to the Developer Survey. One of the biggest reads of the year for our community was a blog written by our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and our CPTO Jody Bailey on this new era at Stack Overflow, which feels particularly fitting for all the "new year, new me" posts you're probably seeing on social media. You can check that one out on the blog—plus other top posts from the year like a technical look at how we built Question Assist and why documents are a software architect's best friend. Speaking of new year, new era, new you, if you're looking to start your 2026 off right, we've got everything you need. Want to become a better developer? Check out our conversation with LaunchDarkly's Tom Totenberg about the software corners you should definitely not be cutting. Want to build a better community? We spoke with MIT and Stanford professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland on how you can use AI to do just that. Want to be disaster prepared or have fun with web development again? We've got two stories from the web that get you started on all such self-improvement endeavors. And what list of New Year's resolutions would be complete without "get smarter" on it? Our bevy of questions and answers is the best place to start. Where else could you learn about the safety of decade-old honey, exploding synthetic gloves, or the fastest way to make thousands of files at once so you can bulk delete them? Ah, only in the Overflow. All of that and much more is in the links below.