The Stack Overflow Podcast

The home team chats with Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow. They discuss GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, the people paying millions for virtual real estate, and the downsides of microservices and CI/CD for developer productivity.

Welcome to the new Stack Overflow podcast. For our relaunch episode, the home team covers code scanning for security vulnerabilities in open-source registries, whether high-profile skills training programs from Google and Amazon really address systemic inequity in tech (spoiler: probably not), and how a James Bond character sparked Matt’s interest in security.

The team talks with Expensify CEO David Barrett about how computer graphics and video games inspired his career, how Expensify built their stack, and why this CEO still takes his turn on PagerDuty.

The home team talks about award-winning diagramming and charting tool Mermaid, the QR code ad promoting crypto at the Super Bowl, and Intel’s semiconductor investment.

Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional programming with JavaScript and currently works with Elixir, “a fully functional programming backend.”