Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
What I learned from hiring hundreds of engineers can help you land your next role
A seasoned director shares her process for selecting who to hire, and offers insight on how developers can position themselves for success.
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Nvidia has acquired Arm. What does this mean for the future of AI, edge computing, and the people who write software for these chips?
In a move that has significant implications for the tech industry, U.S.-based graphics chip maker Nvidia announced last week that it would purchase U.K.-based Arm Holdings from Japanese investment firm Softbank for $40 billion. For anyone programming for AI, data processing, or embedded systems, this could mean your data intensive applications will soon be running…
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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.
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The Overflow #40: Tech in “Rest of the World”
Welcome to ISSUE #39 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. It’s a big, round milestone, so we’re celebrating the way we always do: giving you the scoop on future robo-coders, getting names for lonely lists, and marking the moment when Moment.js…
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 25, 2020
Podcast 272: Pull requests are welcome
What gives you that special feeling: a nice, sharp recursive function or a deep, winding ternary statement? Paul and Sara debate the finer points of feeling smugly satisfied with your own code.
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September 22, 2020
Podcast 271: Next level command line
Saying hello to new command line options and goodbye to a great timekeeper. Plus, the mixed economic incentives for developers who want to flee big cities.
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September 18, 2020
Podcast 270: Oracle tries to Tok, Nvidia Arms up
We unpack major acquisitions that could impact how data travels between nations and what the future of chips and AI will look like.
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September 15, 2020
Podcast 269: What tech is like in “Rest of World”
Lending apps that include public shaming and clerics who must certify your code before you can launch. This week we share stories of software from around the globe.
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The Overflow #39: Breaking leases in Silicon Valley
Welcome to ISSUE #39 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. For your consideration: micro frontends, the ancient computer hardware making a cameo beside James Bond, and a time-lapse of the most popular website rankings since 1993. From the blog Can one…
Neural networks could help computers code themselves: Do we still need human coders?
The next big revolution in coding practice might be closer than we think, and it involves helping computers to code themselves. By utilizing natural language processing and neural networks, some researchers think that within a few years we can remove humans entirely from the coding process.
If you work as a coder, you'll be glad to hear that they are wrong.
The Overflow #38: More threads than cores
Welcome to ISSUE #38 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, a look at the staying power of object-oriented programming, the olden days of backing up a hard drive to a ton of CDs, the top five most irritating web…
Can one person run an open source project alone?
No matter how well-intentioned and free wheeling a project is, at some point, to succeed at scale, decisions need to be made and conflicts need to be resolved. But is a project managed best by a single person with the final say or through building consensus with a committee of several people?
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!…
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
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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…
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…
