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?
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
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.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast: Don’t Miss Your Stop
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.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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…
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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Why bother to learn a programming language when it will be out of date by the time I master it?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast: Make my Monolith a Micro
Sara returns from Miami. The crew chats about Monoliths vs microservices and the lessons we've learned as manager and ICs.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast: Your Buddy is Typing
Teresa Dietrich, Stack Overflow's new Chief Product Officer, talks about the time a new feature for AOL Instant Messenger almost took down the company's whole network.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast – From Prison to Programming with the Code Cooperative
We chat with Alex Qin, co-founder and CEO of the Code Cooperative, about teaching formerly incarcerated individuals to code.
Ben Popper
Director of Content