The Overflow #167: Programmers and ADHD
Edge functions, pair programming, and the newest CSS features
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 #166: Writing code for other people
Serverless databases, expensive hash functions, and floating point numbers
Shorten the distance between production data and insight (Ep. 541)
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it.
The Overflow #165: Your new favorite band is an AI
Secure code and SLDC practices, lossless compression, and tech specs
The Overflow #164: Is software getting worse?
New SO features, the politics of sudo, and the state of WebAssembly
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.