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code-for-a-living March 19, 2023

What’s different about these layoffs

As the discouraging news continues, we revisit how our core community of developers has been experiencing the layoffs—and explore what sets this economic situation apart from previous dips and busts.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow March 17, 2023

Let’s talk large language models (Ep. 550)

The home team unpacks their complicated feelings about AI, the Beyoncé deepfake that got kpop hopes up, and the pandemic’s ripple effects on today’s teenagers. Ben, the world’s worst coder, tells Cassidy and Ceora about building a web app with an AI assistant.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow March 10, 2023

How to position yourself to land the job you want (Ep. 547)

The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow March 7, 2023

“Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply to other people’s savings (Ep. 545)

Christine Ryu, Engineering Lead at fintech platform Flourish, joins the home team to talk about how technology is transforming finance for everyone from big banks to individual consumers. Christine explains what it’s like to move from Goldman Sachs to a tiny startup, how legacy tech stacks lead to Frankencode, and what an acquisition taught her about build vs. buy and good vs. perfect.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow March 3, 2023

The nature of simulating nature: A Q&A with IBM Quantum researcher Dr. Jamie Garcia (Ep. 544)

Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, tells Ryan about IBM’s 433-qubit quantum computer and the real-life applications of quantum computing today.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 28, 2023

The open-source game engine you’ve been waiting for: Godot (Ep. 543)

Juan Linietsky, cofounder and lead developer of the Godot Engine, joins the home team for a conversation about what led him to create an open-source game engine, how open source is shaping game development, and the well-worn path from playing video games to learning to build them.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 24, 2023

ML and AI consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 542)

The home team talks with Jaclyn Rice Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Tribe AI, about the explosion of hype surrounding generative AI, what it’s like to work at a startup after working at Google, and how Tribe is leveraging the power of a specialist network.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 21, 2023

Authorization on Rails (Ep. 540)

Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 17, 2023

Because the only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them (Ep. 539)

David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both!

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 14, 2023

You don’t have to build a browser in JavaScript anymore (Ep. 538)

What’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow February 7, 2023

The AI that writes music from text (Ep. 535)

The home team discusses why it seems like everybody needs subtitles now, the AI that generates music from text, and a list of open-source data engineering projects for you to contribute to.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer