Podcast 325: How we keep Stack Overflow’s codebase clean and modern
How would you define the ergonomics of code? Does it pass the squint test?
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 324: Talking apps, APIs, and open source with developers from Slack
We chat about Slack's open source SDKs, such as Bolt for Javascript, Python, and Java.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Level Up: creative coding with p5.js – part 2
In this session, we will turn our static drawings into animations!
Ben Popper and Jiwon Shin
Podcast 323: A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands
We discuss data gravity and some much lighter topics.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 322: Getting Dev and Ops to actually work together
How to create a positive feedback loop between your developers and your SRE team.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Level Up: Creative coding with p5.js – part 1
In the second edition of our Level Up series, we explore how to create shapes, animations, and art using p5.js.
Ben Popper and Jiwon Shin
Podcast 321: Taking a risk and joining a new team
We chat about changing careers, learning new disciplines, and maintaining a beginner's mindset
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 320: Covid vaccine websites are frustrating. This developer built a better one.
Trying to build a site that grabs data from all over the place. The Chrome network tab is your new best friend.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 5
Rather than dig into complex math or over-simplify by using a pre-written function, we'll write our own binomial test function, primarily using base Python. In the process, we'll learn more about how hypothesis testing works and build intuition for how to interpret a p-value.
Podcast 319: Building a bug bounty program for the Pentagon
A crack team of nerds trying to break through their employer's defenses.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 318: What’s the half-life of your code?
Think of your code quality as if it will run forever, but adapt to change as if your code will be obsolete tomorrow.
Ben Popper
Director of Content