Why are video calls so tiring? You might have opposing cultural styles
Video meetings aren’t ideal, but we can make them a little easier by understanding that there are multiple ways of interacting with your fellow humans.
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.
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The Overflow #57: /dev/null on demand
Welcome to ISSUE #57 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, teach your kids coding basics with fun apps, draw straight lines by hand, and recreate Minecraft with React in about an hour. From the blog Want to teach your…
The Overflow #56: An engineering argument
Welcome to ISSUE #56 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, we say farewell to Winterbash 2020, look for evidence that a program is being emulated, and create a chess AI that matches the skill of a player instead of…
Have the tables turned on NoSQL?
NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?
The Overflow #55: Great impractical ideas in computer science
Welcome to ISSUE #55 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. It’s a whole new year, and we’re kicking it off with fresh and tasty links: a teardown of the techniques behind the SolarWinds hack, preparing for school-mandated spyware, and how the…
The Overflow #54: Talking crypto
Welcome to ISSUE #54 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. While we are off for the holidays, we still have some sweet newsletter presents to give: your digital identity and you, dealing with sudden bursts of errors, and the secret origin…
The Overflow #53: Winter Bash is here!
Welcome to ISSUE #53 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. We’re on the cusp of holiday festivities, and we here at Stack Overflow hope you and yours are happy and safe this season. This week, we’ve got a first look at…
The Overflow #52: The semantic future of the web
Welcome to ISSUE #52 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. While you’re sipping on eggnog and munching some gingerbread, read about how to safely update IoT devices over the air, when it makes sense to cancel your daily scrum, and designing…
The Overflow #51: Finish your hobby project
Welcome to ISSUE #51 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. We have a bevy of beautiful links: getting to the finish line on hobby projects, the difference between modern motherboards, and the history of games on the internet. From the blog…
The Overflow #50: A CS degree from Big Tech
Welcome to ISSUE #50 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. We lined up a whole bunch of goodies for our big five-oh: how to write a great resume from a hiring manager who reads hundreds each year, the etiquette of pull…