Stretch work assignments are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond an engineer’s current skill or knowledge level and that allow them to improve and learn new things. When done correctly these assignments serve a dual purpose of providing learning opportunities for your engineers, while at the same time completing a project or task that will help your company. The post Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
SwiftUI is Apple’s newest framework for building iOS applications. It uses the best features of the Swift language to enable writing performative, declarative code. If you’ve ever wanted to build your own iOS applications, now is an excellent time to get started. The Codecademy Live: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI series will be hosted… The post Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 1 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Welcome to ISSUE #86 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: the Dev Survey results, why we describe technology in terms of a stack, and test-driven development in React Native. From the blog The 2021 Developer Survey results are here! stackoverflow.blogOur… The post The Overflow #86: Dev Survey results! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
No one should be woken up because there was a misconfiguration in a YAML file and it pointed a DB to the wrong location. The post Podcast 366: Move fast and make sure nobody gets pager alerts at 2AM appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that we at Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by our community. The post The strange domain names that developers bought appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/11/the-strange-domain-names-that-developers-bought/
We chat with Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, about the future of AI-assisted content creation. The post Podcast 365: Fake your own voice with AI, podcasting has never been easier appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/10/podcast-365-andrew-mason-descript-ai-machine-learning/
“In their first few years on the job, engineers spend roughly 30% of their workday writing, while engineers in middle management write for 50% to 70% of their day; those in senior management reportedly spend over 70% and as much as 95% of their day writing.” - Jon Leydens The post How writing can advance your career as a developer appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/09/how-writing-can-advance-your-career-as-a-developer/
After two decades of crafting code, even solo developers need good comments to understand what they wrote in the first place. The post The Overflow #84 and 85: How Dwarf Fortress is built appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/the-overflow-84-and-85-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/
From Oracle to AWS to MongoDB, Mark Porter has played a pivotal role in the history and development of software databases. The post Podcast 364: What’s the blast radius when your database goes down? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/
We learned a lot from the more than 80,000 respondents who took the time to answer our questionnaire. The post Podcast 363: Highlights from our 2021 Developer Survey appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/03/podcast-363-highlights-from-our-2021-developer-survey/
