How APIs can take the pain out of legacy system headaches (Ep. 465)
Get developers the right tools, or provide the means to build them.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Ben Popper
Ben is the Director of Content at Stack Overflow, responsible for the blog, podcast, and newsletter. He is a drone enthusiast, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner, and former journalist. You can find more of his work on his blog - benpopper.net
A conversation with Stack Overflow’s new CTO, Jody Bailey (Ep. 461)
From Pluralsight to AWS Training to Stack Overflow, our new CTO Jody Bailey has a wealth of experience in the world of ed-tech and software.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Skills that pay the bills for software developers (Ep. 460)
We explore recent research that connects a key suite of skills with highly compensated IT roles.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Developers vs the difficulty bomb (Ep. 459)
Developers on a deadline. Failure to ship means an explosion of complexity. Finish the project...or just find a way to delay the boom.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Seeing is believing: The Stack Overflow Podcast now available as video
Listen up, you can see us now. The Stack Overflow podcast is coming to video.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to survive
If your office is where you live now, would you live in your old office?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
How a very average programmer became GitHub’s CTO (Ep. 447)
Finding your sweet spot as a middling programmer who is an excellent engineer.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Open-source is winning over developers and investors (Ep. 442)
Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Why security needs to shift left into the SDLC (Ep. 439)
We chat with Michael Chenetz, Head of Developer Content at Cisco, about the importance of bringing security into the discussion very early in the SDLC.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Unlock your full programming potential with The Key V2.0
Often imitated, never duplicated.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
What’s the average tenure of an engineer at a big tech company? (Ep. 434)
While many devs see landing a FAANG job as a major achievement, the data shows many don't stay long after joining.
Ben Popper
Director of Content