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newsletter November 13, 2020

The Overflow #47: How to lead with clarity and empathy in the remote world

Welcome to ISSUE #47 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: seamless interoperability between PHP and .NET applications, Stackers on leading remotely, and what exactly is inverse probability? From the blog What’s so great about Go? stackoverflow.blogWe explore the traits that…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

code-for-a-living November 9, 2020

Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change.

John Biggs and Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living November 5, 2020

How to lead with clarity and empathy in the remote world

2020 has brought changes and challenges for everyone—including those in leadership roles. Management style and decision-making have taken on new significance during these testing times as staff’s quality of life—as well as company growth—hang in the balance. In this newly remote world, it can be difficult to figure out the best ways to support and…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz and Ben Popper

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

November 13, 2020

Podcast 286: If you could fix any software, what would you change?

You have a do-over on one technology or programming language. What do you change?

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November 10, 2020

Podcast 285: Turning your coding career into an RPG

Before you can wield the power of the lightboard and explain cloud technologies, you must slay a lot of first level slimes.

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November 6, 2020

Podcast 284: pros and cons of the SPA

In this episode we discuss the rise of the Single Page Application, or SPA. From humble beginnings around 2003, it has come to be a dominant approach for many large tech companies and an alluring option for smaller startups. But for simpler web projects, are there better alternatives? Pawel Skolski wrote this definition of the SPA in…

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November 3, 2020

Podcast 283: Cleaning up the cloud to help fight climate change

It's really easy to spin up a project in the cloud these days. So easy, millions of abandoned apps are actually contributing to global warming.

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code-for-a-living November 2, 2020

What’s so great about Go?

We explore the traits that have led to the rising popularity of the Go programming language.

John Biggs and Ben Popper

newsletter October 30, 2020

The Overflow #45: What we call CI/CD is actually only CI.

Welcome to ISSUE #45 of the Overflow! This week: why the meaning of 60Hz depends on whether you are a monitor or a lightbulb, how the community team smashed 631 tickets in just two weeks, and why what we call CI/CD is actually only CI.

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

community October 28, 2020

Communities and Connections will power our growth in 2021

Our CEO looks back on his first 12 months at Stack Overflow and shares his thoughts on what we're planning for the future.

Prashanth Chandrasekar CEO

careers October 27, 2020

Making the most of your one-on-one with your manager or other leadership

As many offices go fully remote, learning how to approach key meetings with your manager can pay big dividends.

Teresa Dietrich

servers falling over like dominoes but getting an alert

code-for-a-living October 23, 2020

Failing over without falling over

You’ve gone through the motions and play-acted a disaster recovery scenario, but despite spending a lot on the production, it’s not real. What you have is a fairy tale: “Once upon a time, in theory, if everything works perfectly, we have a plan to survive the disasters we thought of in advance.” In practice, it’s more likely to be a nightmare.

Adrian Cockcroft

newsletter October 23, 2020

The Overflow #44: Machine learning in production

Welcome to ISSUE #44 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, get in the fast lane and start pooling your database connections, make a CPU out of electronic components drawn by hand on paper, and learn to toggle multiple property…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

the-loop October 21, 2020

The Loop: Our Community Roadmap for Q4 2020

We review our ticket smash event, lay out our roadmap for Q4, and talk about what we've been learning from our moderators.

Sara Chipps Director of Product, Community

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Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

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Podcast 285: Turning your coding career into an RPG

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What’s so great about Go?

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