Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript
There are lots of simple things you can do to improve at JavaScript. Here are some methods we use to write better JS.
Ryland Goldstein
Product Guy
Code for a Living
We’re here to help developers at every stage of their careers.
How This Git Whiz Grew His Career Through Stack Overflow
Sascha Wolf started using Stack Overflow as resource for homework help. But it quickly became his community, and a path to new career opportunities.
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
“They Didn’t Teach Us This”: A Crash Course for Your First Job in Software
From Personal Projects To Production Code
Max Pekarsky
Software Engineer
Apollo Mission: The Pros and Cons of Being an Early Adopter of New Technology
Using cutting edge tech can help you move fast. But what happens when something breaks and you can't find experts with an answer? There are pros and cons to being a pioneer.
Cassidy Williams
Instructor and developer at React Training
CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack 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…
Ben Popper
Director of Content
What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
Some life lessons for how to approach the craft of coding and the journey of becoming a better developer.
Ryland Goldstein
Product Guy
Find Help Online Mindfully — and Effectively!
Here’s a situation that might sound familiar: you’re in the middle of a project, and you realize you’re tackling a problem you haven’t seen before. Perhaps your search function query is returning too many results, which is slowing down your website. You figure you shouldn’t display the data all at once, and you’ve heard about…
Max Pekarsky
Software Engineer
Making Sense of the Metadata: Clustering 4,000 Stack Overflow tags with BigQuery k-means
Felipe Hoffa, a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, explains how he used BigQuery to organize Stack Overflow tags into interesting groups.
Felipe Hoffa
Developer Advocate
Google got Looker. Salesforce bought Tableau. But open source tools are rising in popularity across the world of business intelligence and data analysis.
Big companies are spending billions to acquire popular startups offering toolkits for data analysis. But open source alternatives provide developers another, more flexible option.
Medical School or Games Industry? Osso VR’s Founder Chose Both.
There is a growing lack of practice time for students and doctors to work on their surgical techniques. A new VR training system thinks it can help.
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
Sing Me A Song of Stack Overflow: A Musical Tail Call Optimization
When Anjana Vakil and Natalia Margolis applied to speak at !!Con (read Bang Bang Con) this year, they wanted to take the call for ‘non-traditional’ talks to heart while still sharing useful insights. They decided to tackle the following question: why recursion poses a problem for the finite-memory call stack. That could be quite a…
Ben Popper
Director of Content