The Stack Overflow Podcast – Episode #125: ‘Tilde Club’ and Mechanical Keyboards
We talk Tilde Club and bitcoin spam, then go deep on mechanical keyboards with Cassidy Williams.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Code for a Living
We’re here to help developers at every stage of their careers.
IMHO: The Mythical Fullstack Engineer
This is the first in an ongoing series from developers expressing their opinions on various topics in the software engineering and computer science world. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author. If you disagree, drop a comment and let us know your take—respectfully, of course. I suspect that a lot of people…
Ryland Goldstein
Product Guy
C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions
Mariel Frank and Sonny Li, authors of Codecademy’s Learn C++ course, recently got a chance to interview with Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. As part of the interview, he answered the highest voted C++ questions on Stack Overflow. While the whole interview is worth a read, Codecademy has generously allowed us to republish…
Sonny Li
Senior Curriculum Developer, Codecademy
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
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.
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
Instructor and developer at React Training
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Ben Popper
Director of Content