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Flow state at your fingertips: How keyboards impact developer productivity (Ep. 481)
Episode one of our four-part series sponsored by Logitech.
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.
Does AI-assisted coding make it too easy for students to cheat on schoolwork? (Ep. 480)
Will students learn the the fundamentals if they can just TAB their way to a function?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Environments on-demand (Ep. 479)
Tommy McClung, cofounder and CEO of ReleaseHub, sits down with the home team to talk about environments-as-a-service, what it’s like to work with the same cofounders for more than 20 years, and the role of karma in professional networking.
Eira May
Content Writer
What companies lose when they track worker productivity (Ep. 478)
The home team gathers for a conversation about workplace productivity monitoring: Does it motivate employees to get more done, or does it lead to stress that takes away from deep, focused work and replaces it with busywork instead?
Eira May
Content Writer
The luckiest guy in AI (Ep. 477)
Serial entrepreneur Varun Ganapathi joins the home team for a conversation about the intersection of physics, machine learning, and AI. He offers some recommendations for developers looking to get started in the ML/AI space and shares his own path from academia to entrepreneurship.
Eira May
Content Writer
Why AI is having an on-prem moment (Ep. 476)
The home team discusses how Instagram’s evolving platform has alienated some creators, why AI and machine learning are moving on-premises, and why Amazon’s acquisition of the company behind the Roomba is striking from a privacy perspective.
Eira May
Content Writer
Combining the best of engineering cultures from Silicon Valley and Shanghai (Ep. 475)
The home team sits down with Liam Zhao, founder and CEO of Immersive, a startup that gives creators tools to produce engaging virtual content and events.
Eira May
Content Writer
The last technical interview you’ll ever take (Ep. 474)
Since the day a hiring manager first wheeled a whiteboard into a conference room, software engineers have dreaded the technical interview, which can be an all-day process (or multi-day homework assignment). If you’re interviewing for multiple roles, you can expect to write out a bubble sort in pseudocode for each one. These technical interviews do…
A history of open-source licensing from a lawyer who helped blaze the trail (Ep. 473)
The home team is joined by Heather Meeker, a specialist with a deep history in the world of open-source software licensing.
Eira May
Content Writer
A conversation with Spencer Kimball, creator of GIMP and CockroachDB (Ep. 472)
Spencer Kimball, cofounder and CEO of Cockroach Labs and co-creator of the GIMP image editor, tells Ryan and Ceora about how database technology has evolved to handle massive data volumes, how Cockroach labs came to focus on solving latency issues through serverless technology, and his “relatively gentle” transition from engineer to CEO.
Eira May
Content Writer
The internet’s Robin Hood uses robo-lawyers to fight parking tickets and spam calls (Ep. 471)
Joshua Browder, founder and CEO of DoNotPay, tells us how a heap of expensive parking tickets inspired him to build software that helps people avoid fines, secure refunds, claim free land, win back lost savings, and even combat systemic racism.
Eira May
Content Writer