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code-for-a-living April 30, 2020

Have better meetings—in person or remote

Engineers hate meetings, but they can be an effective way to get things done. With everyone working remotely, it can be even harder to get anything accomplished. Here's tips on how to have better meetings either way.

Matthew Gaiser

company April 29, 2020

More than Q&A: How the Stack Overflow team uses Stack Overflow for Teams

The majority of companies are now working remotely and asynchronous collaboration is more important than ever. Companies around the globe use Stack Overflow for Teams to do just that (including those that newly adopted the platform since we made it free through June 2020). But only one company has been using Teams since its inception:…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist - Former

podcast April 28, 2020

Podcast 230: Mastering the Mainframe

We meet the IBM mainframe experts who are keeping COBOL modern.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living April 27, 2020

Build your technical skills at home with online learning

Looking to expand your expertise as you stay home and safe? We’ve compiled a list of online technical training and certification programs to help you sharpen your skills, chart a new career path, or earn a certification. Bonus: Many are running special offers and promotions during this time.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community April 24, 2020

Podcast 229: Jokes On Us

Tune in for part two of our conversation with Adam Lear and Jon Chan, Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living April 20, 2020

Brush up your COBOL: Why is a 60 year old language suddenly in demand?

The suddenly strained unemployment systems often run on a 60-year-old programming language, COBOL. So, how can you learn it, make big bucks, and save lots of state agencies that need new code to deal with all the new government stimulus programs?

Charles R. Martin

podcast April 17, 2020

Podcast 227: The Great, Big Bluetooth Trace

We discuss the contract tracing proposal put forward by Apple and Google, a system that could track billions of phones and help alert users if they have been exposed to coronavirus. But can it also protect user's privacy?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living April 15, 2020

Reading the spec: COVID-19 Contact tracing from Apple and Google

Culture and science are happening in real-time during the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic, which means that Apple and Google are working together in collaboration with health and governmental organizations and rapidly publishing specifications and standards.

Paul Ford

podcast April 14, 2020

Podcast 226: Programming tutorials can be a real drag

In this week's episode, we chat with Anna Lytical, a drag queen and engineer who creates sickeningly entertaining and educational coding tutorials in order to engage more LGBTQ+ people with coding and the tech industry.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast April 10, 2020

Podcast 225: The Great COBOL Crunch

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the history of COBOL, a “common business-oriented language”, which is suddenly missions critical to government systems, like unemployment, overwhelmed by the pandemic. After that, we chat about the supply chain in China, which pivoted within weeks from pitching Ben electronic components to offering critical medical supplies.…

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast April 7, 2020

Podcast 224: Cryptocurrency-Based Life Forms

Programming may teach you about the law of large numbers, but that doesn't mean you'll always have the answer.

Ben Popper Director of Content