Stackexchange - Stack Overflow Blog

cooking November 24, 2021

Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions from our Cooking Stack Exchange

You’ve got questions, we’ve got Seasoned Advice on how to prepare the perfect Thanksgiving meal.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

community December 15, 2020

Hat season is on its way! Join us for Winter Bash 2020

2020 was not an easy year for anyone in the world. As we do with someone who has overstayed their welcome at a party, let's signal that it's time for 2020 to leave... by wearing hats!

Nicolas Chabanovskii Community Manager - Former

stackexchange April 21, 2020

Podcast 228: chatting with Stack Overflow’s community developers

On this episode of the podcast, we chat with two of the Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community April 20, 2020

How the pandemic changed traffic trends from 400M visitors across 172 Stack Exchange sites

The world has changed a lot in the last three months. As we adjust to this new reality, we are seeing interesting new traffic trends and community efforts across our network of sites.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community April 1, 2020

You like our dark mode? Well, wait until you try our Ultra Dark Mode

Embrace the darkness.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community March 31, 2020

Podcast 222: Learning From our Moderators

This podcast is meant to reach the Stack community, so we thought it would be great to have some of the moderators who help keep our communities running come on the show and chat about what they do and what they are seeing.

Ben Popper Director of Content

stackexchange March 27, 2020

We’re launching an Instagram account

We have a new social account full of fun animations highlighting great questions and answers from across Stack Overflow and Exchange.

Ben Popper Director of Content

company January 21, 2020

Scripting the Future of Stack Overflow

A note from our new CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, reflecting on his first 90 days and laying out his vision for 2020.

Prashanth Chandrasekar CEO

code-for-a-living August 28, 2019

Apollo Mission: The Pros and Cons of Being an Early Adopter of New Technology

Using cutting edge tech can help you move fast. But what happens when something breaks and you can't find experts with an answer? There are pros and cons to being a pioneer.

Cassidy Williams Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow

community January 4, 2019

Adios to Winter Bash 2018

The 2018 Winter Bash festivities have come to an end. It was a fun season, especially with the addition of the sweater mini-game. As is our custom, we’ll recap a bit here on some of the stats for the hats as well as post some of the many outrageously attractive avatars we found across the…

Juan M Manager, Community Management Team - Former

community December 12, 2018

Winter Bash 2018

The world is full of interesting yearly traditions. Take for example the tomato and orange throwing events, the buffet for monkeys, and the cheese rolling festivities. With such examples of human creativity, we at Stack Overflow could not pass on this opportunity. We have created and maintained our own yearly tradition – Winter Bash! This year we…

Juan M Manager, Community Management Team - Former

posts by author or