The Overflow #151: DIY mad science
Testing the one assertion per test rule, black holes, and shell scripts
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.
Hashgraph: The sustainable alternative to blockchain (Ep. 508)
When most people talk about Web3 or cryptocurrencies and related technologies, they usually mean blockchains. But blockchain is only the first generation of distributed ledger technology
The Overflow #150: Keystrokes vs. productivity
Unlocking innovation with our CEO, the OG UNIX font, and homelabbing
Making location easier for developers with new data primitives (Ep. 505)
The Foursquare app used to be just a way to check in to the places you go. But that location data is more valuable to developers.
The Overflow #149: Stack Overflow without the internet
Synthetic data, can ISPs censor?, and paying to be surveilled
The Overflow #148: How to job hop
The service-oriented approach to 1MM rep, one qubit, and less scary cryptography
Faster feedback loops make for faster developer velocity (Ep. 499)
If you want a fast highway, you should have fewer cars.
Privacy-friendly machine learning data sets: synthetic data
Statistically-relevant data, but not actually exploitable.
The Overflow #147: Working with a second brain
Automated movie and TV curation, downcasting, and templating in HTML
How to earn a million reputation on Stack Overflow: be of service to others
And he keeps learning with every answer.
The Overflow #146: Weekday vs Weekend
Flow state via fingertips, recovering from a PIP, and hello Hacktoberfest