Podcast 281: The story behind Stack Overflow in Russian
What began as a clone for RuNet evolved into a beloved member of the Stack Exchange family.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Ben Popper
Director of Content at Stack Overflow
Podcast 280: How should tech titans act when productizing tiny open source projects?
You don't get to pick and choose who turns your OS code into something commercial.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 279: Making Kubernetes work like it’s 1999 with Kelsey Hightower
Can I get that fancy new software, but also, make it just like my old monolith, ok?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 278: The downside of going viral with your programming joke
You post a skit, and make the whole world laugh. Then the trolls come out to make you miserable. Can we break this cycle?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 277: So you want to be a game developer?
Why is there such a divide between the world of game developers and other consumer software builders?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 276: Ben answers his first question on Stack Overflow
It still counts if you copy paste from the comments, right?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 275: Dr. Duino helps us diagnose what’s next for Arduino
We talk about custom circuit boards, making your own electronics, and the future of open source hardware.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 274: Who’s afraid of a little merge conflict?
When it's been a while, and you're out of sync with your team's tools and tactics, merge conflicts can get real tricky.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 273: Chris Anderson on drones, driverless cars, and creating communities around code
How did a community of online hobbyist create the code that is now being utilized by the Department of Defense?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
How Stackers ditched the wiki and migrated to Articles
In an effort to rethink how documentation works, we recently introduced Articles, longer-form prose that can sit side by side with shorter Q&A.
Podcast 272: Pull requests are welcome
What gives you that special feeling: a nice, sharp recursive function or a deep, winding ternary statement? Paul and Sara debate the finer points of feeling smugly satisfied with your own code.
Ben Popper
Director of Content