The Overflow #164: Is software getting worse?
New SO features, the politics of sudo, and the state of WebAssembly
Ryan Donovan
Ryan Donovan helps run editorial for the Stack Overflow blog. He's spend over 15 years as a technical writer embedded in software development teams across multiple industries. He lives in New York City and hopes to meet your dog some day.
Engineering’s hidden bottleneck: pull requests
CI/CD needs a CM—continuous merge—to get the SDLC moving smoothly.
The nature of simulating nature: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research
We chat with Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, about their 433 qubit quantum computer and what the real life applications of quantum computing are today.
The Overflow #163: Most Loved vs. most questions
Less JS mess, cows vs. tornadoes, and PNG
The Overflow #162: The great testing flake off
New Collective for Azure, the logic of the universe, and !document.write().
How chaos engineering preps developers for the ultimate game day (Ep. 531)
In complex systems, you usually want to minimize chaos. Unless you're trying to find weak spots. In that case, chaos is your friend.
The Overflow #161: Git isn’t the only game in town
Side project to C-suite, historical telescope lenses, and 3D CSS.
How Intuit improves security, latency, and development velocity with a service mesh
Find out about all the features the mesh adds to a service architecture automatically.
The Overflow #160: Looking back at Hat Cafe 2022
Data reqs for ML, detonate vs. explode, and the top 100 Pens for 2022.
Taming multiple design systems with a single plugin (Ep. 526)
We chat about how their design system is evolving into a platform, how AI keeps their brand consistent, and why a design system doesn’t have to solve every use case.
Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use
Our developer survey found 93% of developers use Git. But what are the other 7% using?