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code-for-a-living August 28, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 3

In the third lesson of the series, we’ll continue to incorporate the MVVM architecture and build a view model for our quiz app which mediates communication between the view and the model. Additionally, we’ll build a game model structure and add more questions and functionality for new questions to appear as the user advances through…

Ben Stone

code-for-a-living August 25, 2021

Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization

Here's three areas where data visualization can make your engineering life easier.

Ian Johnson

code-for-a-living August 23, 2021

You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.

The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living August 21, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 2

In the second lesson of the series, we’ll add state to our quiz app so that it can show users whether they answered correctly. We’ll also build out a model for our quiz questions, and add a settings tab. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the work we did in today’s session: What…

Ben Stone

code-for-a-living August 16, 2021

Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow

Stretch work assignments are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond an engineer’s current skill or knowledge level and that allow them to improve and learn new things. When done correctly these assignments serve a dual purpose of providing learning opportunities for your engineers, while at the same time completing a project or task that will help your company.

Tanaka Mutakwa

code-for-a-living August 14, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 1

SwiftUI is Apple’s newest framework for building iOS applications. It uses the best features of the Swift language to enable writing performative, declarative code. If you’ve ever wanted to build your own iOS applications, now is an excellent time to get started. The Codecademy Live: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI series will be hosted…

Ben Stone

code-for-a-living August 11, 2021

The strange domain names that developers bought

Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that we at Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by our community.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living August 9, 2021

How writing can advance your career as a developer

“In their ﬁrst few years on the job, engineers spend roughly 30% of their workday writing, while engineers in middle management write for 50% to 70% of their day; those in senior management reportedly spend over 70% and as much as 95% of their day writing.” - Jon Leydens

Karl Hughes

code-for-a-living July 24, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 8

In the eighth and final lesson of the series we’ll practice everything we’ve learned to date by loading and preparing some data, fitting a few different models, and comparing them. This is an open-ended session where we’ll examine some questions from our audience and demonstrate what a data analysis workflow could look like. If you…

Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living July 21, 2021

Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one

If you’re building a new app today, it might be worth taking a closer look at making it cloud-native and using Kubernetes from the jump. The effort to set up Kubernetes is less than you think. Certainly, it’s less than the effort it would take to refactor your app later on to support containerization.

Max Horstmann

code-for-a-living July 19, 2021

Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change.

The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.

Cillian Kieran