Ben Popper, Stack Overflow Blog

podcast July 23, 2021

Podcast 360: From AOL chat rooms to Wikipedia, Reddit, and now, Stack Overflow

What does it take to build and nurture a healthy and growing online community? community, about his experiences.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 20, 2021

Podcast 359: Crafting software and games for the selfie generation

We chat with the co-founders of this London based startup about the code and concepts they use to craft mobile games for today's teens.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 16, 2021

Podcast 358: GitHub Copilot can write code for you. We put it to the test.

If you're looking for regex, meet your new best friend.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 13, 2021

Podcast 357: Leaving your job to pursue an indie project as a solo developer

What would convince you to leave the safety of steady paycheck to pursue your own adventure?

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 12, 2021

Podcast 356: So you’re not getting along with your engineering team

We're offering some advice for improving the relationship between developers and their non-technical colleagues

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 9, 2021

Podcast 355: Is everyone starting to work like a developer?

As most knowledge works goes remote, the asynchronous, merge-driven processes pioneered by developers are becoming widespread.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 6, 2021

Podcast 354: Building for AR with Niantic Labs’ augmented reality SDK

From catching Pokemon to purchasing furniture, augmented reality is becoming increasingly common on mobile apps.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast July 2, 2021

Podcast 353: Bring your own stack – why developer platforms are going headless

We chat about the new options and tools - from a headless CMS to edge data processing - that Shopify is offering developers.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast June 29, 2021

Podcast 352: How product development at Stack Overflow has evolved

We chat with Adam Lear, staff software engineer at Stack Overflow, about the evolution of our company's approach to product development over the last decade.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community June 25, 2021

Unpacking the user research behind Collectives™

We spent over a hundred hours in 1-on-1 interviews and collected thousands of survey responses to better understand what our community and customers wanted to see in this product. This feedback shaped everything from naming to moderation, and helped us evolve and iterate the concept into what it is today.

Ben Popper and Mithila Fox

podcast June 25, 2021

Podcast 351: Here’s how we built our newest product, Collectives™, and why

There's a new way to organize knowledge on Stack Overflow, and a new content type users can create.

Ben Popper Director of Content