The Overflow #10: The 500-mile email
In this week's newsletter, we've we get right to the the point on floating point numbers, live coding that rocks, and how containers changed the world.
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 2020 Developer Survey is now open!
It’s that time of year again—we’re launching our 2020 Developer Survey. We love watching how this survey data evolves year-over-year, and this year we are focused on collecting insights from a sample that is representative of coders around the world.
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…
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
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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…
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?…
The Overflow #8: Minimal and Performant
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JANUARY 2020
New year, new-sletter! Welcome to ISSUE #8 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 talk to a Veteran Who Codes, wonder what the heck dark matter is, and calculate the math of knots.
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.
The Overflow #7: Find yourself a hobby
December 2019 Welcome to ISSUE #7 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’re connecting with WebSockets, exploring the mathematics of chess, and playing a murder mystery in SQL. From…
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.