Engineering Archives

design March 31, 2020

Building dark mode on Stack Overflow

On March 30, 2020, we enabled folks to opt into a beta dark mode on Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the work that went into it.

Aaron Shekey Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

code-for-a-living November 25, 2019

Podcast: TFW You Accidentally Delete Your Database

We chat with two of the most creative and connected developers in New York about what they're building and how they learn.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living November 19, 2019

Podcast: A Few Of Our Favorite Things About React

What was life like before Git? Why do some many folks love React? How do you transition from a coder to a manager?

Ben Popper Director of Content

engineering November 4, 2019

A Technical Deep Dive into Our MS Teams Integration

How we approached and accomplished the integration between SO for Teams and MS Teams. This is a technical blog for folks who are interested in the process of how we got these two codebases to play nice with one another.

Jisoo Shin

code-for-a-living October 30, 2019

Why Sencha is moving its support forums to Stack Overflow

One way to scale support for a product is to invest in the community already asking and answering questions about your technology on Stack Overflow.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living October 23, 2019

Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates

The impetus to provide an estimate for development work most often comes from non-developer stakeholders in your organization. Learning to do it well can improve collaboration and coordination across departments, making everyone happier and more productive.

Yaakov Ellis Principal Web Developer & Community Advocate

code-for-a-living October 11, 2019

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

company October 8, 2019

Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow

As of September 23rd, 2019, we’re applying static analysis to some of the code behind public Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow for Teams, and Stack Overflow Enterprise in order to pre-emptively find and eliminate certain kinds of vulnerabilities. How we accomplished this is an interesting story and also illustrative of advancements in .NET’s open source community.…

Kevin Montrose Team Lead, Data - Former

code-for-a-living September 30, 2019

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…

Gergely Orosz

code-for-a-living August 28, 2019

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 Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow

community August 20, 2019

What’s in the Works: Improving Feedback for All Users

I’m Meg Risdal, the new Product Manager for Public Q&A. My team works on the public platform and the community tools that help power it (in contrast to our private Q&A products, Stack Overflow for Teams). Recently, we’ve shipped a new tag synonyms dashboard, a redesign of the mod flags dashboard, and Custom Filters. And…

Meg Risdal Product Manager, Public Q&A