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How a very average programmer became GitHub’s CTO (Ep. 447)
Finding your sweet spot as a middling programmer who is an excellent engineer.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Stack Overflow Podcast
The Stack Overflow podcast is a frank and funny conversation about what it means to work in software and how code is reshaping our world. As it celebrates its 12th anniversary, it’s a must listen for any programmer, as necessary as Stack Overflow itself.
Games are good, mods are immortal (Ep. 446)
On this home team episode of the podcast, Ben, Cassidy, and Matt talk about small computers, big nostalgia, and security flaws that you could script a truck through.
Turns out the Great Resignation goes both ways (Ep. 445)
The home team covers the hiring freezes and layoffs hitting the tech sector, burnout among freelancers and applicants for tech jobs, the dubious ethics of unpaid internships, and how to make Twitter safer by preemptively blocking people.
Eira May
Content Writer
Make your open-source project public before you’re ready (Ep. 444)
The home team talks about the past, present, and future of crypto; good reasons to go public with your open-source project before you think you should; and the importance of test-driven development.
Eira May
Content Writer
Building out a managed Kubernetes service is a bigger job than you think (Ep.443)
Infrastructure as code is complicated enough, but building a managed IAC service is a whole other level of complicated.
Open-source is winning over developers and investors (Ep. 442)
Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Software is adopted, not sold (Ep. 441)
Ben and Cassidy chat with Ian Tien, CEO and cofounder, and Corey Hulen, CTO and cofounder of Mattermost, an open-source platform for developer collaboration.
Eira May
Content Writer
Feeling burned out? You’re not the only one (Ep. 440)
Friend of the show Jon Chan, Stack Overflow’s Director of Engineering, Public Platform, joins the home team to talk about burnout: what it is, how to prevent it, and how to recover.
Eira May
Content Writer
Why security needs to shift left into the SDLC (Ep. 439)
We chat with Michael Chenetz, Head of Developer Content at Cisco, about the importance of bringing security into the discussion very early in the SDLC.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
What counts as art, anyway? (Ep. 438)
The home team talks about Elon Musk’s big purchase, what counts as art, and why engineers become managers for the wrong reasons.
Eira May
Content Writer
Would you trust an AI to be your eyes? (Ep. 437)
The home team is joined by friend of the show Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow, to discuss AR glasses that help the blind navigate IRL and how we might reimagine cities for remote work.
Eira May
Content Writer