From the blog
What we learned at TDX 2025
Some high-level takeaways, with more to come.
Can climate tech startups address the current crisis?
Lisbeth Kaufman, Head of Climate Tech at AWS, sits down with Ryan to talk about her work helping climate tech startups get off the ground and the role startups can play in addressing the climate change crisis. She highlights a few projects to get excited about, including ones focused on fusion energy and sustainable agriculture.
Junky data is like an out-of-tune guitar—it prevents AI harmony
In our very first episode, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar talks to Don Woodlock, Head of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, about the challenges in their AI journey and the critical role of a robust data strategy in any successful AI initiative.
A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant
Evaluating question quality and determining the appropriate feedback required some classic ML techniques in addition to our GenAI solution.
Sharing the power of the command line
Ryan welcomes Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, to the show to talk about reimagining the terminal. They also discuss why Warp was built in Rust (“it’s definitely harder”), how AI is transforming developer tools, and what Zach (formerly a principal engineer at Google) learned building Docs and Sheets.
How are sandwich generation developers dealing?
More developers are sandwiched between caring for kids and older relatives. What does this mean for them and for the industry as a whole?
OpenTelemetry 2025 Trends Every Developer Should Know
Explore OpenTelemetry's latest advancements, from semantic conventions and profiling to GenAI observability. Find out how these trends are shaping smarter, scalable observability strategies for today’s complex software ecosystems.
Interesting questions
Must getters return values as is?
"What you do inside your class is your own damn business."
Web application contains a link to a non-existing domain, is this a vulnerability?
New hack unlocked: register website.
How can I destroy the Milky Way Galaxy?
While the ambition is laudable, there may be better uses of your time and money.
May the federal government deny services, opportunities, or equal treatment to customers of businesses they do not like?
When was the last time you got so mad it violated multiple constitutional amendments?
Links from around the web
Dive into WebGPU—part 1 (tutorial)
Have you ever wanted to build modern 3D graphics in the browser?
How I built a mechanical calculator
Would you use a calculator...made out of wood?
Why do we have a cache-control request header?
This is a great breakdown of a commonly misunderstood header.
A 10x faster TypeScript
The team behind TypeScript is re-writing the compiler in Go!
Onboard, organize, and bring your team up to speed in a jiffy. Try Stack Overflow for Teams.