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…
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…
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…
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.
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Cassidy Williams
Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow
One of the most powerful attributes of Stack Overflow (SO) is the accumulation of developers’ knowledge over time. Community members have contributed more than 18 million questions and 27 million answers. When a developer is stuck on a coding problem, they search through this vast trove of information to see if a solution to their…