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code-for-a-living October 9, 2019

Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers

When I graduated from college back in 2014, I did so with two bachelor’s degrees, one in computer science and the other in design. I originally chose design because I wanted to learn the necessary design skills in order to improve the usability and appearance of my personal projects. While I originally joined the program…

Iheanyi Ekechukwu Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

code-for-a-living October 7, 2019

Einstein Analytics and Go

It’s rare that we get a chance to directly compare two technologies against each other for the same task. But sometimes the stars align, either because you start experiencing negative effects from your current stack, new technology appears that meets your exact needs, or the scale and feature set of your project outpaced the tech on hand.

Guillaume Le Stum

code-for-a-living October 1, 2019

Introducing The Overflow and Cassidy Williams

Today we’re launching The Overflow, a newsletter from Stack Overflow that brings together great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web. Our goal is to produce a collection of links about the world of software development that entertains, educates, and informs. It’s content by developers,…

Cassidy Williams Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow

code-for-a-living October 1, 2019

Five Pitfalls To Avoid When Outsourcing Software Development

If you're not careful, what starts as an effort to save time and money can quickly mutate into a major headache.

Rahul Varshneya

code-for-a-living September 30, 2019

How to Make Good Code Reviews Better

I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the collaboration helps to improve the organization’s overall approach to tooling and automation. If you’re not currently doing code reviews in…

Gergely Orosz

code-for-a-living September 27, 2019

Job Hunting: How to Find Your Next Step by Taking Your Search Offline

Job seeking in the tech world in 2019 is in an unusual place. The industry is growing rapidly, with innovative new technologies and applications appearing regularly. At the moment, there are far more jobs available nationwide than there are devs to take them, but unfortunately that doesn’t always mean that finding your next challenge is…

George Withecombe

code-for-a-living September 20, 2019

Meet the Developer Who Took Stack Overflow from Screen to Stage

We chatted with Jen Weber, developer at Cardstack and open source advocate, who found a creative way to engage with Ember users and the wider developer community via livestream Stack Overflow sessions. She recently took her show on the road to EmberCamp. You probably remember your high school English teacher saying “Show, don’t tell.” Turns…

Samantha Hill

code-for-a-living September 17, 2019

Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

What inspires someone to become a software developer? Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss how the culture of coding has evolved over the decades and where they hope it’s headed next.