Podcast 387: The first ten years of our programming lives
Everybody starts somewhere with coding, even if that's just to make your favorite game better.
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.
The Overflow #96: A database built for a firehose
Welcome to ISSUE #96 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: what drives growth in cybersecurity questions on Stack Overflow, teaching an AI to bid on properties in Monopoly, and every talk from Jamstack Conf 2021 in one handy playlist.…
Podcast 386: Quality code is the easiest to delete
Hustle culture and startups playing at being rocket ships end up working against quality code.
The Overflow #95: Image search, but for any object IRL
Welcome to ISSUE #95 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: the best practices for REST API auth, a physics lesson with air conditioners, and the wonders of the CSS Paint API. From the blog Extracting text from any file…
Podcast 384: Can AI solve car accidents and find you a parking space?
Maybe cars won't drive you home, but with AI and crowdsourcing, maybe they can avoid driving us crazy.
Podcast 383: A database built for a firehose
In this episode, we chat with Stephen Goldberg and Kyle Bernhardy from HarperDB. Their startup was born of the firehose of Twitter data during sporting events, and now they have a database designed to scale well for real-time data. Show notes HarperDB is a startup that focuses on highly scalable databases that handle real-time data. …
The Overflow #94: Automate away boring standups
Welcome to ISSUE #94 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: how our joke keyboard became real, how we see the light from distant stars, and why any productivity software will eventually be used to play games. From the blog…
The Overflow #93: No joke—you can buy our copy/paste keyboard right now
Welcome to ISSUE #93 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: the math and code of Dwarf Fortress, computer games in Star Trek, and alternative ways to manage state in React applications. From the blog The Loop: Our Community department…
Automate away your boring standup meetings
HCL Accelerate sweats the small stuff so your team can crush their Epics.
The Overflow #92: Mapping the path from engineer to manager
Welcome to ISSUE #92 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: mapping the path from engineer to manager, looking to the stars for encryption, and improving the junior dev experience with seven VS Code extensions. From the blog Why your…
Podcast 378: The paranoid style in application development
Will no-code application development make you more productive or will you just feel bad about your growing to-do list?