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newsletter September 4, 2020

The Overflow #37: Bloatware, memory hog, or monolith

September 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #37 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. Thrill to the veteran Stack Overflow engineer who walks like a noob! Gasp at the 2000-year-old temperature reading! Marvel at the GitHub README that writes itself!…

Ryan Donovan

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code-for-a-living September 2, 2020

If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?

OOP has been wildly successful. But was the success just a coincidence? And can it still offer something unique in 2020 that other programming paradigms cannot?

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

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code-for-a-living August 26, 2020

Kotlin 1.4 released to improve performance

Last week, JetBrains released Kotlin 1.4 to the programming community. The update added some new language features but also put a strong focus on improving quality-of-life and performance, especially when paired with JetBrains’s own IntelliJ IDEA IDE. Kotlin is a programming language best known as “Java without the warts.” It can compile both to Java…

Ryan Donovan

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code-for-a-living August 24, 2020

Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet

To offer a seamless developer experience, we wanted to create a specialized programming language, called Motoko, that is designed to directly support the programming model of the Internet Computer, making it easier to efficiently build applications and take advantage of some of the more unusual features of this platform.

Andreas Rossberg

The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.

September 4, 2020

Podcast 266: Ok, who vandalized Wikipedia?

Teaching your kids to respect The Commons should start early and last a lifetime.

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September 1, 2020

Podcast 265: the tiny open-source pillar holding up the entire internet

In Portuguese they call is "software pesado." Here at Stack Overflow we just say, monorepo.

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August 28, 2020

Podcast 264: Teaching yourself to code in prison

When Garry Becks was incarcerated, his wife would hide programming material inside the cover of fiction novels in order to get them through security screenings.

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August 25, 2020

Podcast 263: turning our employees into Stack users

Which veteran developer has been masquerading as a brand new Stack Overflow user?

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code-for-a-living August 12, 2020

How we built it: our new Articles feature for Stack Overflow Teams

Roberta Arcoverde, tech lead for Stack Overflow Teams, provides a deep dive into the decisions that shaped the architecture of Articles, an entirely new content type.

Roberta Arcoverde Principal Software Developer

newsletter August 28, 2020

The Overflow #36: Community-a-thon

August 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #36 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. In the US, it’s the dog days of summer, which we imagine dogs are excited about. Read on for personal development nerds, creating secure voting systems…

Ryan Donovan

community August 20, 2020

The Loop, August 2020: Community-a-thon

Here at Stack Overflow, we recently held our first Community-a-thon event. We wanted our employees to learn more about the SE network and how it feels to use it so they can get a better sense of what it's like to be a user here.