Ryan Donovan, Stack Overflow Blog

stackoverflowknows January 31, 2020

This week, #StackOverflowKnows the coronavirus’s long tail, sulfuric acid spills and tiny malicious code

The first month of the new year is almost over just in time for everyone to give up on their resolutions. But fear not! Stack Overflow and our coterie of Exchanges have a bevy of delicious questions to strengthen your resolve. Take a gander at the genetics of the coronavirus, the waste products of Apollo…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living January 29, 2020

The live coding language that lets you be an actual rock star

Code on a screen is not likely to land you the legions of screaming fans that a sick guitar solo will. Unless you’re Sam Aaron, that is. He’s the creator of Sonic Pi, a live coding language for making music. It’s an open source project that he built which creates music from code in real time

Ryan Donovan

January 27, 2020

Want to write for the SO blog? Here’re the guidelines.

Got an idea for that would make a good post on the Stack Overflow blog? Here's what you can do to submit your idea and work with us.

Ryan Donovan

newsletter January 24, 2020

The Overflow #9: Rust and Redux

January 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #9 of The Overflow, a newsletter by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams of React Training. You can read more about it here. This week, we get a peek into the future of Stack Overflow, discover the longest possible free ride, and…

Ryan Donovan

stackoverflowknows January 17, 2020

This week, #StackOverflowKnows syntactic sugar, overfit or nah, and the definition of norm

We’re in the throes of winter here at Stack Overflow headquarters but the Q&A sites are full of hot questions. This week, we’re wondering if syntactic sugar makes code sweeter, wishing upon a galaxy, and digging into two Scala functions that do basically the same thing but at different speeds. A star or a galaxy?…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living January 2, 2020

This veteran started a code bootcamp for people who went to bootcamp

In 2014, Hardaway started Vets Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching US military veterans how to code within the JavaScript ecosystem: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, CLI, node.js, webpack, React, Gatsby, and GraphQL. To date, 250 veterans have graduated from the program. This cohort has gone on to find jobs in the industry across 37 states in the US. It’s 100% free to the veterans admitted into the program, 100% remote run, and 100% supported by donations.

Ryan Donovan

talent December 20, 2019

The Ultimate Tech Recruiting Event Checklist

In an era where so much of the recruiting process happens online, in-person recruiting events can seem out of place or old fashioned. But make no mistake: when properly utilized and executed, live events can be an incredibly useful recruiting tool.

Ryan Donovan

stackoverflowknows December 20, 2019

This Week #StackOverflowKnows Magic Constants, Using the Force, and Paper Maps

Once again, it’s time for our bi-weekly roundup of questions that caught our eyes. But we’re not the only eyes out there. So give attention to a great question and/or answer by tweeting it with the tag #StackOverflowKnows and we’ll consider them for future installments of this series. Where do “magic” hashing constants like 0x9e3779b9…

Ryan Donovan

talent December 17, 2019

The Top 10 Frameworks and What Tech Recruiters Need to Know About Them

As programming matures and application development becomes more complex, developers need more than just an understanding of programming languages. They need to know the frameworks that make creating applications in these languages easier.

Ryan Donovan