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Issue 259: It’s not what you know. It’s how you know it.

Welcome to ISSUE #259 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Streamlining medical billing with AI, how to think about time, and the etymology of “Jingle bells, Batman smells.”

From the blog

AI agents that help doctors get paid

Dan Parsons, co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at Thoughtful AI, talks about how his company is using AI to simplify how providers get paid by insurance companies.

It’s not what you know, it’s how you know you know it

The complex relationship of give-and-take in the knowledge journey is untangled in the results from the latest Stack Overflow Knows survey.

Enterprise 2024.8 release: Maintain a healthy roster of SMEs

This release introduces the ability to automatically and programmatically demote an inactive Subject Matter Expert (SME) to ensure a healthy roster of contributing experts.

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Interesting questions

What is the origin of "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells"?

“You try fighting crime all night in a bodysuit with a cowl and a cape, you’ll smell too.”

How to get a horse to release your finger?

“Unfortunately fingers and carrots have a very similar shape.”

Why aren't we bumping into objects outside of the visible range?

“You never seen a cat smash its face into a sliding glass door?”

Is it appropriate to reach out to executives and/or engineers at a company to express interest in a position?

It’s incredibly annoying, but on the other hand, it’s completely ineffective.

Links from around the web

Publishing a simple client-side JavaScript package to npm with GitHub Actions

Watch this developer make his library “easy” to publish as an npm package.

Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)

The ever-elusive perfect setup requires iteration.

Can’t seem to remove the formatting from a string of text?

When you have funky Unicode characters as text, you might want to provide alternatives for screen readers and copy-pasters.

How to think about time

Physical time and civil time are different. Programmers everywhere quiver!


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