the stack overflow podcast Archives

se-stackoverflow June 7, 2022

On the quantum internet, data doesn’t stream; it teleports (Ep. 450)

The home team chats about quantum computing, Schrödinger’s ill-fated feline, and how software engineers really spend their time.

Eira May Content Writer

se-stackoverflow June 3, 2022

Kidnapping an NFT (Ep. 449)

Friend of the show Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow, joins the home team to talk about one of the biggest tech acquisitions in history, why Ceora includes memes in her talks, and what happens when somebody “kidnaps” a celebrity’s NFT.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast June 1, 2022

Talking blockchain, functional programming, and the future with Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman (Ep. 448)

What does a blockchain built for engineers look like?

Ryan Donovan

podcast May 31, 2022

How a very average programmer became GitHub’s CTO (Ep. 447)

Finding your sweet spot as a middling programmer who is an excellent engineer.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast May 27, 2022

Games are good, mods are immortal (Ep. 446)

On this home team episode of the podcast, Ben, Cassidy, and Matt talk about small computers, big nostalgia, and security flaws that you could script a truck through.

Ryan Donovan

se-stackoverflow May 24, 2022

Turns out the Great Resignation goes both ways (Ep. 445)

The home team covers the hiring freezes and layoffs hitting the tech sector, burnout among freelancers and applicants for tech jobs, the dubious ethics of unpaid internships, and how to make Twitter safer by preemptively blocking people.

Eira May Content Writer

se-stackoverflow May 20, 2022

Make your open-source project public before you’re ready (Ep. 444)

The home team talks about the past, present, and future of crypto; good reasons to go public with your open-source project before you think you should; and the importance of test-driven development.

Eira May Content Writer

partner-content May 18, 2022

Building out a managed Kubernetes service is a bigger job than you think (Ep.443)

Infrastructure as code is complicated enough, but building a managed IAC service is a whole other level of complicated.

Ryan Donovan

podcast May 17, 2022

Open-source is winning over developers and investors (Ep. 442)

Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.

Ben Popper Director of Content

se-stackoverflow May 13, 2022

Software is adopted, not sold (Ep. 441)

Ben and Cassidy chat with Ian Tien, CEO and cofounder, and Corey Hulen, CTO and cofounder of Mattermost, an open-source platform for developer collaboration.

Eira May Content Writer

se-stackoverflow May 10, 2022

Feeling burned out? You’re not the only one (Ep. 440)

Friend of the show Jon Chan, Stack Overflow’s Director of Engineering, Public Platform, joins the home team to talk about burnout: what it is, how to prevent it, and how to recover.

Eira May Content Writer