Stack Overflow Blog

community January 15, 2020

Winter persists, but Winter Bash 2019 has drawn to a close!

We had a ton of people participate in Winter Bash this year with 266,000 hats awarded throughout the network. Thank you, everyone! We couldn’t have done it without you.

Cesar Manara Community Manager

January 14, 2020

We’re making it easier to try Stack Overflow for Teams

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that our Basic version of Teams no longer requires a personal or corporate credit card to get started. No more pestering your boss for their sacred purchase card or putting down your personal card to only set several different calendar reminders to make sure you cancel in time before getting charged.

Lori Colston Sr. Product Marketing Manager

code-for-a-living January 13, 2020

Avoiding burnout as an ambitious developer

Burnout is difficult to describe to people who haven’t felt it. But it was also a valuable lesson. Here's a few tips on how to take care of your ambitious self and avoid burning out.

Cassidy Williams Instructor and developer at React Training

code-for-a-living January 11, 2020

Hello World: Want to be a developer? Learn how to learn

Over the past five years, I’ve had the opportunity to teach coding to veterans who have varying degrees of education and experience. As such, newbies from all walks of life trying to get their eureka moment would always ask me, “How do I learn how to code?” The first hurdle to learning how to code…

Jerome Hardaway Web Developer

January 9, 2020

[Humor] So You Wanted to be a Product Manager

You think you wanted to be a product manager? Maybe you should think again about your choices there, Stevie Jobs.

Scott C Reynolds

code-for-a-living January 8, 2020

Tapping into the coding power of migrants and refugees in Mexico

Mexico and Latin America’s tech sector is growing rapidly, and the current market is demanding more experienced talent. HolaCode, founded two years ago, is focused on educating new coders in this region, and then supporting them through the early stages of their career.

Marcela Torres

stackoverflowknows January 3, 2020

This Week #StackOverflowKnows Parties With Introverts, Perfect Cookie Ratio, and Harmless !-Habits

Even over the holidays Stack Overflow and the Exchange sites are buzzing with some great questions and answers. In this edition, you can stick to your new year’s resolutions but still think about the perfect cookie, learn how to seat introverts at parties, and explain your last defeat at chess mathematically. Can I make leading…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

code-for-a-living January 2, 2020

This veteran started a code bootcamp for people who went to bootcamp

In 2014, Hardaway started Vets Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching US military veterans how to code within the JavaScript ecosystem: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, CLI, node.js, webpack, React, Gatsby, and GraphQL. To date, 250 veterans have graduated from the program. This cohort has gone on to find jobs in the industry across 37 states in the US. It’s 100% free to the veterans admitted into the program, 100% remote run, and 100% supported by donations.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living December 26, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in The World of Seven Billion Humans

To help get me into the programming mindset, or maybe to cleverly sabotage my work ethic, a colleague recently introduced me to a game called Seven Billion Humans. You command small squads of workers through If statements, loops, and basic assignments of memory. One of the most fascinating lessons in the game is that you…

Ben Popper Director of Content