the stack overflow podcast Archives

podcast April 1, 2022

Embracing ambiguity in software with one of YouTube’s UX engineers (Ep. 429)

The home team sits down with Mattaniah Aytenfsu, a UX Engineer at YouTube, up-and-coming TikTok influencer, and creative technologist. They talk about our unfortunate tendency to divide kids into “science kids” and “art kids,” the difference between being a software engineer and a UX engineer, and why it’s important to be gracious with yourself when you lose focus on a project.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

podcast March 29, 2022

Give us 23 minutes, we’ll give you some flow state (Ep. 428)

A test to see if one could post an empty NPM package has taken on a life of its own.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast March 25, 2022

Human laziness is the ultimate security threat (Ep. 427)

The home team talks with Guillermo Rauch, CEO and cofounder of Vercel and cocreator of Next.js, and Sam Lambert, formerly VP of Engineering at Github and now CEO of PlanetScale. They cover how Vercel and PlanetScale are making the web more accessible to developers, the future of web development for professional programmers, and why human laziness is the ultimate security threat.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

partner-content March 23, 2022

Getting through a SOC 2 audit with your nerves intact (Ep. 426)

And how to make friends with your auditor.

Ryan Donovan

podcast March 22, 2022

Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity (Ep. 425)

The home team chats with Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow. They discuss GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, the people paying millions for virtual real estate, and the downsides of microservices and CI/CD for developer productivity.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

podcast March 18, 2022

McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Ep. 424)

Ceora, Ben, and Matt talk with Danielle Man, Director of Engineering at Apollo GraphQL, about how an MIT program for high school girls helped kick off her career, her path from IC to engineering manager, and how Apollo became what it is today.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

podcast March 15, 2022

Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs (Ep. 423)

The new home team—Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy—discuss Visual Studio’s 25th birthday, how to create a sustainable revenue source for open-source frameworks, why open-source business models contribute to a lack of diversity, and why NFTs are so unpopular with K-pop fans.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

podcast March 11, 2022

Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Ep. 422)

Ben talks with entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Pakman, who recently left his longtime role as a partner at veteran VC firm Venrock to become managing partner at CoinFund.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

March 8, 2022

Welcoming the new crew of Stack Overflow podcast hosts

We've got a new team of hosts and some big plans for the future.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast March 8, 2022

Who says HTML and CSS aren’t real programming? (Ep. 421)

Welcome to the new Stack Overflow podcast. For our relaunch episode, the home team covers code scanning for security vulnerabilities in open-source registries, whether high-profile skills training programs from Google and Amazon really address systemic inequity in tech (spoiler: probably not), and how a James Bond character sparked Matt’s interest in security.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer