There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/15/the-ghost-jobs-haunting-your-career-search/
A two-part episode: In part one, Ben chats with friend of the show and senior software engineer Kyle Mitofsky about Staging Ground, a private space within Stack Overflow where new users can receive guidance from experienced users before their question is posted. In part two, Ben talks to Stack Overflow moderator Spevacus, who participated in the beta of Staging Ground. They talk about why we wanted to build a safer asking experience for new users, the positive feedback we’ve gotten from the comm
With the ever-increasing importance of data, we’re always looking for expert voices that can expand our view of what data and our reliance on data means for software development and society as a whole. More and more of our lives are becoming data-driven. Is that a good thing? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/10/datafication-and-socioeconomic-transformations/
In this episode, Ben chats with Elastic software engineering director Paul Oremland along with Stack Overflow staff software engineer Steffi Grewenig and senior software developer Gregor Časar about vector databases and semantic search from both the vendor and customer perspectives. They talk about the impact of GenAI on productivity and the search experience, the value of structured data for LLMs, and the potential for knowledge extraction and sharing. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/09/we-c
For this episode, we spoke with Carol Lee, PhD, principal research scientist in the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, about her research into code review anxiety, how developers are coping, and how a workbook can help. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/05/what-can-devs-do-about-code-review-anxiety/
The home team welcomes developer and software consultant Ben Borra to the show for a wide-ranging conversation about developer productivity, the value of positive feedback and identifying quick wins, the impact of code assistants on devs’ everyday work, and the challenges of system rewrites. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/02/happy-people-make-better-products/
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/01/community-products-roadmap-update-july-2024-an-update-on-recent-launches-and-the-upcoming-roadmap/
Today we chat with Reshma Khilnani, co-founder and CEO of Medplum, an open-source platform enabling companies to build healthcare applications like EHRs and patient portals. She discusses how to iterate rapidly in an industry where SOC2 compliance is just the beginning (one of the compliance tests is named after Dante’s epic poem depicting the nine circles of hell, if that gives you an idea). https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/28/reshma-khilnani-medplum-open-source-highly-regulated/
Here’s a simple, three-part framework that explains generative language models. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/27/explaining-generative-language-models-to-almost-anyone/
In 2019, as the original co-founders and hosts moved on, the Stack Overflow podcast was rebooted with a new cast of hosts. On today’s episode Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ryan Donovan sit down to discuss how much has changed in the five years they have been collaborating on Stack Overflow’s blog, newsletter, and podcast. If you you are sick of AI talk today, remember how bad the crypto craze was just two years ago! https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/25/5-year-anniversary-edition-stack-over
