Julia Silge, Stack Overflow Blog

How Much Do Developers Earn? Find Out with the Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

by Julia Silge on September 19, 2017

Today, we launched the Stack Overflow Salary Calculator, a tool that allows developers and employers to find typical salaries based on experience level, location, specific technologies, and education.

Text Mining of Stack Overflow Questions

by Julia Silge on July 6, 2017

This week, my fellow Stack Overflow data scientist David Robinson and I are happy to announce the publication of our book Text Mining with R with O’Reilly. We are so...

New Kids on the Block: Understanding Developers Entering the Workforce Today

by Julia Silge on June 12, 2017

Another academic year has recently ended, bringing with it a new season of graduations to celebrate and a new crop of freshly-minted graduates entering the software industry. The 2017 Stack...

And the Most Realistic Developer in Fiction is…

by Julia Silge on March 28, 2017

Computer programmers, IT specialists, and hackers are often depicted in popular works of fiction, from books, movies, to TV shows. On the 2017 Developer Survey, we asked respondents about depictions...

What Programming Languages Are Used Most on Weekends?

by Julia Silge on February 7, 2017

For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for leisure, and working on the open-source projects I am involved in. These weekend projects overlap with...