Stack Overflow Blog

company May 3, 2021

Find knowledge faster: New Articles features

We've made the Articles in Stack Overflow for Teams even better. With these updates, knowledge becomes even easier to find, content becomes better, and the experience becomes more enhanced.

Lori Colston Sr. Product Marketing Manager

company April 29, 2021

Vote for Stack Overflow in this year’s Webby Awards!

We’re honored to be nominated for a Webby Award again.

Ryan Donovan

company April 28, 2021

Access broader knowledge with Unified Search

Bringing public Stack Overflow questions and answers to your private Teams

Ham Vocke Software Developer

code-for-a-living April 27, 2021

Level Up: Creative Coding with p5.js – part 7

Machine learning might sound complicated, but with the help of p5.js, we can make interactive visualizations to help wrap our head around these algorithms. In this session, we make a visualization of the popular K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm. Join us as we discuss how this algorithm can be applied to real data and track down bugs…

Jiwon Shin

company April 26, 2021

Accelerating Stack Overflow’s transformation

This quarter's post from our CEO focuses on two strategic priorities: Product-led Transformation and Predictable and Reliable Financial Performance, both of which add value to our community and our customers by allowing us to continue to support and resource them better.

Prashanth Chandrasekar CEO

community April 23, 2021

The Loop: Our Community & Public Platform Roadmap for Q2 2021

Here's where the Community platform is going this quarter. Spoiler: We’re taking on a lot of big projects.

Des Darilek and Sara Chipps

community April 19, 2021

How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

Ben Popper and David Gibson

code-for-a-living April 17, 2021

Level Up: Creative Coding with p5.js – part 6

During our second session, we learned how to transform arrays into Bouncing Balls. In this session, we will take the principles of loops and arrays we used to create 100 ellipses bouncing around the canvas and learn how to adapt them to fit within in an object-oriented approach. We will start from the basics and…

Jiwon Shin

code-for-a-living April 14, 2021

Understanding quantum computing through drunken walks

The jumping off point for exploring quantum computing is to understand that while many of the principles are counterintuitive, the classical universe we know and love is but a mere shadow of the quantum fabric of reality. To get a feel for that fundamental difference we will walk through an example that helps to illustrate the power of quantum computation.

Dylan Miracle and Dr. César A. Rodríguez-Rosario

code-for-a-living April 13, 2021

Level Up: Creative Coding with p5.js – parts 4 and 5

Part 4 In this session, we will make our p5.js sketches interactive! Together with Morgan, we will work on the Generative Art Creator project using the p5.js web editor! We will make a tool to create, control, and combine generative works of art inspired by early media artists, such as John Whitney and Vera Molnar.…

Jiwon Shin

community April 12, 2021

Stack Overflow badges explained

Badges have been around since the beginning of Stack Overflow. But what badges do we have, and how did they come about in the first place?

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist - Former