
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.

In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices. The post Best practices can slow your application down appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/22/best-practices-can-slow-your-application-down/

When people say “CI/CD,” they are only talking about continuous integration. Nobody is talking about (or practicing) continuous deployment. AT ALL. It’s like we have all forgotten it exists. It's time to change that. The post Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/20/fulfilling-the-promise-of-ci-cd/

How teaching beginners can highlight the concepts that you've internalized too much. The post Podcast 402: Teaching developers about the most lightweight web “framework” around, VanillaJS appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

If there is one thing developers like less than writing documentation, it's responding to unnecessary escalations. The post “This should never happen. If it does, call the developers.” appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Welcome to ISSUE #104 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Fixing bugs to set a world record, the tools making vision AI more accessible, open-source code security, and what developers really want in a job. From the blog Smashing… The post The Overflow #104: Fixing bugs to set a world record appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Ben sits down with Bill Pearson, VP of the Internet of Things Group and General Manager of Developer Enablement at Intel, to talk about computing on the edge and how developers are using AI across use cases to make their apps faster and smarter. The post Podcast 401: Bringing AI to the edge, from the comfort of your living room appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/17/podcast-401-bringing-ai-to-the-edge/