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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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Welcome to work without the offices and perks. Are you reconsidering what you like about your employment?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
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.
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.
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 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