Ben Popper, Stack Overflow Blog

podcast January 25, 2022

How to defend your attention and find a flow state (Ep. 410)

Modern apps have been engineered to capture your attention. We explore how to break free and find more focus for your own programming.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast January 21, 2022

Who’s going to pay to fix open source security? (Ep. 409)

Are occasional disasters among widely used open source projects inevitable, or can we find a way to better fund maintainers and security?

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast January 18, 2022

Podcast 408: A chat with the folks who lead training and certification at AWS

From teachers to tutorials to peer groups, and now, video games, there are lots of ways to acquire skills on the AWS platform.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast January 14, 2022

Podcast 407: Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses

Modern DevOps could learn a few things from industrialized hackers.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast January 7, 2022

Episode 404: Podcast not found ;)

Welcome to work without the offices and perks. Are you reconsidering what you like about your employment?

Ben Popper Director of Content

community December 30, 2021

How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

Ben Popper and David Gibson

code-for-a-living December 27, 2021

Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships

Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges software development has for SpaceX's many missions.

Charles R. Martin and Ben Popper

code-for-a-living December 24, 2021

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast November 30, 2021

Podcast 396: Does modern parenting require spyware?

Should developers build tools for parents to monitor every aspect of their children's digital lives?

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast November 23, 2021

Podcast 395: Who is building clouds for the independent developer?

Big enterprise clients looking for "lift and shift" are lucrative clients in the cloud market. But there are also millions of independent developers who need cloud tech at their scale.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast November 22, 2021

Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE

Before your organization can resolve an issue, it has to figure out who is on deck to respond.

Ben Popper Director of Content