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Issue 240: Tools to make developers happier

Welcome to ISSUE #240 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Developer experience beyond the spreadsheet, what to do when your coworkers are Big Brothering you, and why the creator of jQuery uses React and Typescript.

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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