Issue 309: Your year Stacked

Don't let all those year in-review posts on your social media feeds fool you—we've got plenty of new stories for you this week. We just got back from AWS re:Invent, and we've got the skinny on all the new tech announced. Two podcasts, two different takes. First, our very own CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree joined us to discuss everything they heard and saw at the event. Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill and snark king, also sat down with us to debrief on all things re:Invent, from the new technology to the restaurants. If you're more of a reader than a listener, we have a full recap for you on the blog of everything you'd want to know from re:Invent 2025.

Fine, we won't be a Scrooge McDuck...we'll get into the wrapped spirit too. Let's take a walk down memory lane—maybe with Your 2025 Stacked, our fun year-in-review for our Stack Internal customers. Not your style? No worries. From the web, we've got a state of AI coding report for you, so you can look back and think about all the hours you saved (or more likely wasted) with coding bots. If you want to take it even further back, read about how they're recovering the lost files of Sega Channel. Maybe you'd even be interested in the history of your favorite default font, Times New Roman.

If that's too much nostalgia for you, let's wrap this up by bringing you back to 2025. No Overflow could be complete without a few questions and a few answers, and this week we've even got the top ten Q&As of the year from our sites. Plus, we've plenty more—everything from melting big pieces of ice to ritualized workplace confessions and mayo disasters. It's all down below for you, wrapped and ready to go.