The Overflow #142: The bane of bossware
Functional programming for blockchains, multiple conditional inheritances, and the life of Clippy
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 #141: High-velocity and burnout
AI goes on prem, university cheating at scale, and why React re-renders
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AI-assisted job placement, garbage collection basics, and Redis explained
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Low code & no code, electronic export confusion, and free design pattern book
The last technical interview you’ll ever take (Ep. 474)
Since the day a hiring manager first wheeled a whiteboard into a conference room, software engineers have dreaded the technical interview, which can be an all-day process (or multi-day homework assignment). If you’re interviewing for multiple roles, you can expect to write out a bubble sort in pseudocode for each one. These technical interviews do…
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Monitoring data quality, telling your boss about overtime, and Docusaurus 2
The Overflow #137: The San Francisco exodus
Hate it? Automate it, scientific uncertainty, and the benefits of mini-forests
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Kafka topic design, skills for reverse engineering, and another AI creating photos
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Perl in 2022, the legality of Googling the illegal, and fuzz tests
The Overflow #133: Introducing the video podcast
The cost of Copilot, replacing a fuse box, and understanding databases
The Overflow #132: The 2022 Dev Survey results!
WWDC 2022, first operating system, and 3D scenes from 2D images