Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs weekend site activity
Is everybody coding on the weekends? Is everybody learning Rust?
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving next
Distributed work may hold the key to creating forward thinking metropolises.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Do developers (and their employers) care about their wellness?
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
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?
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
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Top movies and coding music according to developers
Programmers cannot live on code alone. We asked about the movies and music that best fit with programming.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities
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
Senior Data Scientist
Shift to remote work prompted more cybersecurity questions than any breach
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
Senior Data Scientist
Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years
The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.
Most developers believe blockchain technology is a game changer
But a little over one third disagree, viewing blockchain as mostly hype
This week, #StackOverflowKnows molecule rings, infected laptops, and HMAC limits
These may be uncertain times, so we’ve all got questions. And on Stack Overflow and our exchanges, we’ve got a ton of great questions with fantastic answers. This week, we compare SSH with HTTPS, practice good document hygiene, and wonder if it would be dark inside the sun. Why is SSH safer than HTTPS on…
This week, #StackOverflowKnows outlaw wifi, GPU weakness, and neutrinos per second
Time is on the March and we are ready to Spring into action (you see what we did there). And that means we’re planting a new crop of questions for you. This week, we look at the billions of neutrinos streaming through your body, why telegraphs used STOP instead of punctuation, and the asteroids that…