Exploring the interesting and strange results from our 2022 Developer Survey (Ep. 458)
Ben and Matt unpack the results of the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
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GitHub Copilot is here. But what’s the price? (Ep. 457)
The home team convenes to discuss the full public release of AI pair programmer GitHub Copilot, the VPN company that turned off subscriptions to protect its customers’ privacy, and the moral hazard of “free-to-play” apps and games.
Eira May
Content Writer
Living on the Edge with Netlify (Ep. 456)
Today’s guests are two of Cassidy’s former colleagues on Netlify’s developer experience team.
Eira May
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Experts from Stripe and Waymo explain how to craft great documentation (Ep. 455)
We chat with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen, two technical writers with deep experience at major tech companies and open source projects, about their approach to documentation and the new book they helped co-author, Doc For Devs.
Eira May
Content Writer
Our favorite features and updates from WWDC (Ep. 454)
The home team covers highlights from WWDC22, from passwordless authentication to the new M2 chip. Digressions include an iMessage update that may increase the drama quotient in your life and the fact that Matt used to pretend to be playing chess when, really, it was World of Warcraft.
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Content Writer
Run your microservices in no-fail mode (Ep. 452)
The home team sits down with Maxim Fateev, CEO and cofounder of Temporal Technologies, and Dominik Tornow, Principal Engineer at Temporal, to talk all things microservices.
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Want to be great at UX research? Take a cue from cultural anthropology (Ep. 451)
The home team talks with designer, coder, and anthropologist Maggie Appleton about her path from academic ethnography to leading design at HASH, how she balances creative expression and usability in front-end design, and why UX researchers are really anthropologists by a different name.
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On the quantum internet, data doesn’t stream; it teleports (Ep. 450)
The home team chats about quantum computing, Schrödinger’s ill-fated feline, and how software engineers really spend their time.
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Kidnapping an NFT (Ep. 449)
Friend of the show Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow, joins the home team to talk about one of the biggest tech acquisitions in history, why Ceora includes memes in her talks, and what happens when somebody “kidnaps” a celebrity’s NFT.
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Content Writer
Turns out the Great Resignation goes both ways (Ep. 445)
The home team covers the hiring freezes and layoffs hitting the tech sector, burnout among freelancers and applicants for tech jobs, the dubious ethics of unpaid internships, and how to make Twitter safer by preemptively blocking people.
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Content Writer
Make your open-source project public before you’re ready (Ep. 444)
The home team talks about the past, present, and future of crypto; good reasons to go public with your open-source project before you think you should; and the importance of test-driven development.
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