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Should I reveal to a potential employer that I am leaving my job due to a relationship not working out

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Is wearing synthetic gloves an explosion risk when refueling at freezing temperatures?

Note to self: don't rub a balloon on your hair at the gas station, otherwise you might explode.

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Is 30+ year old honey ok to eat?

Eat first, ask questions later.

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Fastest way to make thousands of files

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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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Attention is Bayesian inference

And for AI's next "magic trick," it's going to use Bayes' Theorem to write your next LinkedIn post for you.

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Using Hinge as a command & control server

"Babe, I promise I only have Hinge on my phone to distribute unassuming abstract expressionist pixel art."

ma.ttias.be

Web development is fun again

Really, debating whether AI helps or hurts web development is one of the funnest parts.

sparkbox.com

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

Disaster preparedness is sometimes as easy as a bulleted list.

linusakesson.net

Kernighan's lever

Pre-debug dev: "Who are you?" Post-debug dev: "I'm you but stronger."

lucumr.pocoo.org

A year of vibes

Maybe the point of vibe coding was the AI friends we made along the way.

scottaaronson.blog

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”

"Everybody wants to know what I would do if I couldn't scale. I guess we'll never know." -quantum computing

borretti.me

I wish people were more public

Was this written by a people-person or a content scraping bot?

gamehistory.org

The secrets of Sega Channel

Garfield: Caught in the Act has been saved!

github.com

PURRTRAN - a programming language for people who wish they had a cat to help them code

A cat coding assistant that won't walk across your keyboard and somehow delete three days of work.

typographyforlawyers.com

A brief history of Times New Roman

Might we recommended the Google font Stack Sans instead?

greptile.com

The state of AI coding 2025

No, this report doesn't include how many databases have been accidentally dropped through coding assistants.

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Issue 310: The top ten Stack Overflow blogs of 2025

What luck for our 310 issue to land on the 31st! If you're practicing your numbers in preparation for the New Years' countdown, we're right there with you. We're counting down the top ten Stack Overflow blogs of 2025, and this week we've got the first five for your holiday reading pleasure. From popping the AI bubble to the ick you get from slop to the losing employment battle Gen Z is having against bots, this year's blogs dug deep into the economic, cultural, and technical shifts caused by AI in 2025. And don't worry, we wrote about stuff besides AI. Rounding out the first five of our countdown are the Great Unracking of our last physical datacenter, and a piece on making your codebase better by making your code coverage worse. If you're in more of a listening mood, you're in luck because the pod stops for no holiday. We're joined by former Stack Overflow board member Anil Dash for a conversation on how AI is normal and should be treated as such. We also spoke with Dan Ciruli from Nutanix about the delicate dance between VMs and Kubernetes in cloud-native environments. From around the web, we've got a piece on when we can expect quantum computing to be scalable (apparently it's imminent), one dev's reflection on a year of vibe coding, plus the disproving of the old developer proverb, "If you're as clever as you can be when you write your code, how will you ever debug it?" Wait, is that 2026 I see on the horizon? Let's countdown the end of this issue the way we always do—with some questions. 5...What would Aristotle say about Cliff's Notes? 4...Will people believe me if I say the reason I don't understand advanced math is because its notation is not standardized? 3...What does "technically sound" mean? 2...Why won't my pirated disc of Brat work on my mom's 1999 CD player? 1...Happy New Year! Until next year, we have all those answers and so much more down in the links below.

Issue 309: Your year Stacked

Don't let all those year in-review posts on your social media feeds fool you—we've got plenty of new stories for you this week. We just got back from AWS re:Invent, and we've got the skinny on all the new tech announced. Two podcasts, two different takes. First, our very own CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree joined us to discuss everything they heard and saw at the event. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill and snark king, also sat down with us to debrief on all things re:Invent, from the new technology to the restaurants. If you're more of a reader than a listener, we have a full recap for you on the blog of everything you'd want to know from re:Invent 2025. Fine, we won't be a Scrooge McDuck...we'll get into the wrapped spirit too. Let's take a walk down memory lane—maybe with Your 2025 Stacked, our fun year-in-review for our Stack Internal customers. Not your style? No worries. From the web, we've got a state of AI coding report for you, so you can look back and think about all the hours you saved (or more likely wasted) with coding bots. If you want to take it even further back, read about how they're recovering the lost files of Sega Channel. Maybe you'd even be interested in the history of your favorite default font, Times New Roman. If that's too much nostalgia for you, let's wrap this up by bringing you back to 2025. No Overflow could be complete without a few questions and a few answers, and this week we've even got the top ten Q&As of the year from our sites. Plus, we've plenty more—everything from melting big pieces of ice to ritualized workplace confessions and mayo disasters. It's all down below for you, wrapped and ready to go.

Issue 308: Software development time wasters

We've got a jampacked week for you of stories, so let's skip the small talk and get right to it. Coming off Microsoft Ignite, we've got a look into how the enterprise is reframing their AI initiatives to be slower, steadier, and more focused on their market fit. If you didn't know, we debuted our rebrand and new MCP Server at Ignite, and if you're curious how that's all going, be sure to check out the interview we did with HP's Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele on how they're using our MCP Server in their SDLC experiments. We also had a convo with Salesforce's Chief Scientist and Head of AI Silvio Savarese on how they're simulating terrible phone calls to make customer service AI agents better. Okay, maybe we can have a little small talk. Tell us, what do you hate about your job? We can guess...is it documentation? If it is, you're not alone—that's exactly what the data showed us in our latest Stack Overflow Knows survey. But maybe you love documentation and hate code reviews. If so, we have a pod with Macroscope's Kayvon Beykpour on how AI can ease some of your code review troubles. Maybe all of our troubles would be erased if we could just get those pesky interfaces right; we have an episode with Wesley Yu from Metalab on all things interfaces (which are everything, btw). All right, we're done with small talk now. Let's have a deep discussion about the questions that matter the most. Are wooden cutting boards more sanitary than plastic ones? What would it take to be a world-famous keynote speaker in software? Why do programs and languages have such silly names? Is your imposter syndrome telling the truth? As always, we've got all of those answers for you in the links below.

Issue 307: New season, new agents

When fall turns to winter, it can often seem like everything around you is taking their own subtle shifts. And just like how the weather changes and the leaves start to fall, the world of technology is no different. On the blog, our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar writes about one of those shifts in technology—how success is measured in a post Gen-AI world. XX And in a post Gen-AI world, the shift in technology seems to feel distinctly agentic. Guillaume De Saint Marc from Outshift by Cisco joined us on the pod to talk about the future of multi-agent frameworks and what kind of infrastructure needs to be built for it. Speaking of agent infrastructure, on Leaders of Code, our very own Ben Matthews sat down with Postman's Abhinav Asthana to talk APIs in the AI era. Plus, this week, we're introducing our own agent—AI Assist, a new way to access the 17 years of expert knowledge living on Stack Overflow. XX Even as the seasons change, some things remain true—traditional RSS feeds are boring, people love free movies, and code is only as good as the humans who are working on it. We have all three of those stories around the web for you this week, plus one on why finance bros should now fear AI taking their jobs like the rest of us. Oh, and another truth that remains true: robots are pretty cool. We were joined by Viam's VP of Engineering, Simone Kalmakis, to explore how abstraction is making those very cool robots attainable for the everyday person. XX As the leaves fall and a chill starts to bite your nose, you're probably asking yourself a lot of questions right now like...what model computer appeared in both Star Trek and Serenity? Or maybe the winter air is making you wonder if the word "goodly" is real. Maybe you're even thinking about quitting your job, even if its only been a month. Well, you won't believe the coincidence—we've got all of those answers for you for you this week. Check them out, and everything else, in the links below.