Which dependencies should be present in your code base? This article suggests an answer to that question. The post Favor real dependencies for unit testing appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/01/03/favor-real-dependencies-for-unit-testing/
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories, mythologies, and artifacts. I reached out to him to see how he’s managed a single, growing codebase over 15+ years, the perils of pathing, and debugging dead cats. Our conversation below has
Welcome to ISSUE #106 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. While we are on holidays this week, please enjoy the first half of our top ten blog posts of the year, the final podcast of 2021, and the fallout of the… The post The Overflow #106: The most lightweight “framework”: VanillaJS appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found. The post How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer. The post I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/29/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow/
Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages. The post What I wish I had known about single page applications appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/28/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-single-page-applications/
Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges software development has for SpaceX's many missions. The post Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/27/dont-push-that-button-explo
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA. The post Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/24/sequencing-your-dna-with-a-usb-dongle-and-open-source-code/
Welcome to ISSUE #105 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Hat season on Stack Exchange, an oral history of Stack Overflow to mark our 400th (!) podcast episode, and how to build a high-velocity DevOps culture. From the blog… The post The Overflow #105: An oral history of Stack Overflow appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than no comment at all. Here are some rules to help you achieve a happy medium. The post Best practices for writing code comments appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
