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
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
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
Time to get on trend
Question: who's got a new lewk? Answer: Oh, you know
Give us 23 minutes, we’ll give you some flow state (Ep. 428)
A test to see if one could post an empty NPM package has taken on a life of its own.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Welcoming the new crew of Stack Overflow podcast hosts
We've got a new team of hosts and some big plans for the future.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Finally, an AI bot that can ace technical interview questions (Ep. 417)
What if AlphaCode could tackle your technical interview questions?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
An algorithm that optimizes for avoiding ennui (Ep. 416)
What if you built a recommendation engine optimized for users' health, not their watch time?
Ben Popper
Director of Content