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stackexchange March 27, 2020

We’re launching an Instagram account

We have a new social account full of fun animations highlighting great questions and answers from across Stack Overflow and Exchange.

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podcast March 27, 2020

Podcast: Right Back At Ya

We are stuck inside and raring to go. This week, you get double the usual Stack Overflow podcast!

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podcast March 24, 2020

Podcast Episode 220: Fully Remote

This week, we discussed how our dedicated community saved Stack Overflow from a serious certificate bug.

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podcast March 17, 2020

Podcast: Time Keeps on Slipping

Did a leap year trip up Robinhood? Why does Postgres know so much about ancient calendars? And how do you pronounce char?

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code-for-a-living March 13, 2020

Scaling your VPN overnight

We're 100% remote, as of Monday. And one of the critical tools that helps us work securely is our VPN. This article covers how we made our decision and best practices to follow.

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podcast March 10, 2020

Podcast: A chat with MongoDB’s CTO, Eliot Horowitz

A small group of four people wrote the code that kicked off what is now a massive business. Hear the story from CTO Eliot Horowitz.

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podcast March 3, 2020

A Nigerian financial analyst with a habit of getting lost connects remotely with a Siberian app developer. Together, they would go on to build a mapping app worth $1 billion, all without ever meeting face to face.

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podcast February 25, 2020

Podcast – Anil Dash talks Glitch and Glimmer

This week we chat with Anil Dash, CEO of Glitch and board member here at Stack Overflow. He breaks down the tech behind Glitch apps, explains why the company is launching an online magazine called Glimmer, and talks about the fight to keep the web weird, fun, and open to all. Glitch, a platform that…

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February 22, 2020

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder : Complexity is the Constant

Why bother to learn a programming language when it will be out of date by the time I master it?

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podcast February 18, 2020

Podcast: Coaching a Developer Interview

We try to climb the teetering tower of abstraction, examine a human readable magazine on computing, and prepare for Y2038.

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February 13, 2020

Ben Popper is the worst coder in the world: Something awry with my array

Our intrepid new coder meets his first data structure. With an array of concepts in front of him, will he push his learning until it pops for him?

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