Podcast 374: How valuable is your screen name?
Some spicy takes on image compression, super resolution, and the enduring value of your oldest screen names
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
Podcast 373: Authorization is complex. Oso is a library designed to help you structure it.
What if it was as easy to add authorization logic to your app as it was to add user authentication?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 372: Why yes, I do have a patent on a time machine
This week we chat with Angie Jones, Java champion, prolific inventor, and senior director of developer relations at Applitools. She previously held roles at Twitter and IBM. She explains why visual testing can catch things you would miss if you just scan the DOM, what actually makes a 10x developer, and how she secured a…
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years
The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.
Podcast 371: Exploring the magic of instant Python refactoring with Sourcery
Who needs a pair programmer?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.
The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old
We're more than just StackOverflow.com; here's a few of the sites in the Stack Exchange network that have been around for a decade!
Ben Popper and Juan M
Podcast 366: Move fast and make sure nobody gets pager alerts at 2AM
No one should be woken up because there was a misconfiguration in a YAML file and it pointed a DB to the wrong location.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 365: Fake your own voice with AI, podcasting has never been easier
We chat with Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, about the future of AI-assisted content creation.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Overflow #84 and 85: How Dwarf Fortress is built
After two decades of crafting code, even solo developers need good comments to understand what they wrote in the first place.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 364: What’s the blast radius when your database goes down?
From Oracle to AWS to MongoDB, Mark Porter has played a pivotal role in the history and development of software databases.
Ben Popper
Director of Content