From the blog
How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet
Ben and Ryan are joined by Cortex cofounders Anish Dhar, CEO, and Ganesh Datta, CTO. Cortex offers an internal developer portal that helps devs document and reinforce organizational best practices and improve developer productivity. The portal includes features like scorecards that incentivize developers to improve their work and AI-powered search to make finding information easier.
Research roadmap update: August 2024
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Enterprise 2024.5: Encouraging and growing community contributions
The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more.
6 Ways to Boost Your Coding Productivity with Amazon Q Developer
Looking to streamline your workflow and boost productivity? Meet Amazon Q Developer, your AI-powered coding assistant that can help you across software development tasks, from coding, diagnosing errors, optimizing AWS resources & more!
Interesting questions
Since we now have unlimited computation power (relative to historical norms), do we need to use statistical methods instead of simulations?
Would it be desirable to use simulations entirely? Yes. Realistic? No.
Camera on me and my computer screen all day
The real issue isn’t the camera; it’s your colleagues.
What is the historical origin of lone CR as a line terminator?
Wherefore bare CR?
Is this story of John Wesley, a horse, and a bridge true?
“In a moment of desperation, I turned to LLMs.”
Links from around the web
How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
There was a time when you had to be careful about how your site rendered to optimize it for search. Is that still a thing?
Why the jQuery creator uses React and Typescript
John Resig, creator of jQuery, talks about how he uses modern JavaScript.
Categories of leadership on technical teams
Some useful ways to think about structuring technical teams.
The effect of CRTs on pixel art
Pixel art is always cool, but how you perceive it depends on the screen you’re using.
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