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stackoverflowknows February 28, 2020

This week, #StackOverflowKnows outlaw wifi, GPU weakness, and neutrinos per second

Time is on the March and we are ready to Spring into action (you see what we did there). And that means we’re planting a new crop of questions for you. This week, we look at the billions of neutrinos streaming through your body, why telegraphs used STOP instead of punctuation, and the asteroids that…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living February 27, 2020

The eight factors of happiness for developers

I recently came across this sketchnote by Tanmay Vora, and it really resonated with me. As a developer it got me thinking about how this might translate into the life of a developer and our happiness. Based on this sketchnote here are the eight factors of happiness applied to developer life. 1. Resentment Harboring resentment…

Mark Locklear

code-for-a-living February 26, 2020

What’s behind the hype about Blazor?

Blazor is a new client-side UI framework from the ASP.NET team. Its big selling point is the ability to write rich web UI experiences using HTML, CSS, and C# instead of JavaScript—something a lot of developers have been dreaming of.

Chris Sainty

community February 25, 2020

Sharing our first quarter 2020 community roadmap

Editor’s note: You can discuss this post on Meta here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344178/the-q1-2020-community-roadmap-is-on-the-blog/344209 As we work to improve our relationship and communications with our users, we want to share with you our community roadmap each quarter, so once every three months. Even though we are halfway through this quarter, we wanted to share with you what we…

Teresa Dietrich

code-for-a-living February 24, 2020

How to onboard yourself when your employer doesn’t

I had to onboard myself. Here are some of the things I learned on the path to being a fully contributing developer and a valuable member of the development team.

Matthew Gaiser

February 22, 2020

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder : Complexity is the Constant

Why bother to learn a programming language when it will be out of date by the time I master it?

Ben Popper Director of Content

newsletter February 21, 2020

The Overflow #11: Efficiently lazy

February 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #11 of The Overflow, a newsletter by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams of React Training. You can read more about it here. In this week’s newsletter, we’re efficiently lazy, calculating probabilities in chocolates, and thinking about how to maintain open source.…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living February 20, 2020

Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem to see the same kinds of problems we always have: late delivery, unsatisfactory results, and complete project failures.

Charles R. Martin

survey February 19, 2020

New decade, new survey goals (and reminder to take the survey before it closes next week!)

Update 2/24: An issue with our email platform prevented our reminder email from reaching the majority of intended recipients, so we’re extending the survey deadline to Friday, February 28. This is your last last chance! We’re two weeks into collection of data for our 2020 Developer Survey. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, be…

Erin Martin Digital Marketing Manager

code-for-a-living February 18, 2020

Trying to find your first dev job? Here’s what employers are actually looking for.

Interview processes run the gamut from a few conversations, to hours of writing code on a whiteboard, to evaluative social events with the team. It can all seem very mysterious and nerve-wracking from the outside. But here’s the big secret: No matter what kind of process you step into, the hiring team, really, is only trying to figure out three things.

Rebekah Rombom

company February 17, 2020

Community working group updates: February 2020

In this post, we'd like to talk about some of the initiatives that are happening internally at Stack Overflow aimed at addressing and repairing our relationship with our community.

The Community Team