An unfiltered look back at April Fools’ 2022
As with any good joke, the most important part is the resulting data.
David Gibson
Staff, Data Analytics and Insights
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Ben Popper
Director of Content
New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?
Are blockchain and Web3 the future or are they just a fad? We asked the developer community about Web3, blockchain, crypto, and whether they are all hype or truly the future of the internet.
David Gibson
Staff, Data Analytics and Insights
New data: Top movies and coding music according to developers
Programmers cannot live on code alone. We asked about the movies and music that best fit with programming.
David Gibson
Staff, Data Analytics and Insights
New data: What makes developers happy at work
Turns out developers and plants need mostly the same things.
David Gibson
Staff, Data Analytics and Insights
Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned ten years old in Q1 2022
From camping to tenure to memory, the sites turning ten this quarter cover a lot of ground.
V2Blast and Ryan Donovan
Twilio launches Collective on Stack Overflow
More than 10 million developers use Twilio’s platform to add customer engagement solutions to their products and services. Now there’s an easy way to find helpful content and connect with experts from Twilio and the Stack Overflow community when you have questions.
Here’s how Stack Overflow users responded to Log4Shell, the Log4j vulnerability affecting almost everyone
When the Log4j security issue was disclosed, developers came looking for answers. We took a look at our site data around it.
David Gibson
Staff, Data Analytics and Insights
Stack Gives Back 2021
One of our most loved traditions is Stack Gives Back. Every year since 2009, we've surveyed Stack Exchange moderators about charities they would like to support and then donated $100 on behalf of each moderator.
Juan M
Manager, Community Management Team - Former
The Bash is over, but the season lives a little longer
As most of us transition from one season to another, be it summer to autumn or winter to spring, we wanted to take a look back at how this year’s Winter Bash went for everyone.
How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.