We want to know about all the technology that makes you swoon and scoff.

Erin Yepis

Distributed work may hold the key to creating forward thinking metropolises. 

David Gibson

As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to see what developers are doing to decrease that stress and prioritize their own wellness. Earlier this year, we surveyed over 800 developers to see if they are happy at work and what they are doing to maintain or improve mental health.

David Gibson

Are blockchain and Web3 the future or are they just a fad? We asked the developer community about Web3, blockchain, crypto, and whether they are all hype or truly the future of the internet.

David Gibson

Programmers cannot live on code alone. We asked about the movies and music that best fit with programming.

David Gibson

Turns out developers and plants need mostly the same things.

David Gibson

When the Log4j security issue was disclosed, developers came looking for answers. We took a look at our site data around it.

David Gibson

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

Ben Popper, David Gibson

How do you attract technical talent? What do developers care about when they evaluate new opportunities? We surveyed over 500 developers and the findings might surprise you.

David Gibson

For this edition of Stack Overflow Knows, we did a deep dive into cybersecurity topics across Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites to spotlight trends and reflect on how conversations are evolving within the developer and technical community.

David Gibson

The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.

David Gibson, Ben Popper

Our data reveals some fascinating trends in education, remote work, and web frameworks.

Ben Popper, David Gibson

But a little over one third disagree, viewing blockchain as mostly hype

Ben Popper, David Gibson

But a little over one third disagree, viewing blockchain as mostly hype

Ben Popper

If you work on a product that’s ever benefited from research – whether that’s talking directly to users, analyzing experiment data, or any number of other research methods – you know how indispensable these inputs are for making the right decisions. But how do you decide which methods to use and when? How do you know if you’re spending the right amount of time on research? How do you know when it’s time to change your research methods?

This month’s research update shows how the new question asking experience on Stack Overflow, now live for everyone, helps askers be more successful with quality questions.

Julia Silge

The majority of developers we surveyed say they code for fun. At the same time, burnout is a big issue in the industry. We crunch the numbers on how Stack Overflow gets used during weekends.

Julia Silge

If you're not careful, what starts as an effort to save time and money can quickly mutate into a major headache.

Rahul Varshneya

Stack Overflow traffic during DEF CON shows what technologies are trending in the hacker community

Julia Silge

We chat with the CEO of Count about a new programming language his startup has created for data analysis.

Ben Popper