How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/07/accessibility-by-design-building-interfaces-for-everyone-at-stack-overflow/
Ryan and Eira talk with Stack Overflow senior research analyst Erin Yepis about the results of our 2024 Developer Survey, which polled more than 65,000 developers about the tools they use, the technologies they want to learn, their experiences at work, and much more. Erin highlights what the survey reveals about devs’ favorite programming languages (JavaScript, HTML, Python), the rise of Rust, the popularity of embedded technologies (Raspberry Pi, Arduino), developer sentiment around AI, and why
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)? https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/05/this-developer-tool-is-40-years-old-can-it-be-improved/
Ben and Ryan are joined by Cortex cofounders Anish Dhar, CEO, and Ganesh Datta, CTO. Cortex offers an internal developer portal that helps devs document and reinforce organizational best practices and improve developer productivity. The portal includes features like scorecards that incentivize developers to improve their work and AI-powered search to make finding information easier. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/02/how-developer-experience-can-escape-the-spreadsheet/
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/01/research-roadmap-update-august-2024/
Josh Zhang, a staff site reliability engineer at Stack Overflow, tells Ryan and Eira how the Stack Exchange network defends against scraping bots. They also cover the emergence of human botnets, why DDoS attacks have spiked in the last couple of years, and the constant balancing act of protecting sites from attack without inhibiting legitimate users. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/30/how-stack-overflow-fends-off-scraping-bots/
The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/31/encouraging-and-growing-community-contributions/
In this episode, Ben interviews Jannis Kallinikos, a professor at Luiss University in Rome, Italy about his new book Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy, coauthored with Cristina Alaimo. They discuss the social impact of data, explore the idea that data filters how we see the world and interact with each other, and highlight the need for social accountability in data tracking and surveillance. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/26/on-the-web-data-doesn-t-define-us-it-creates-us/
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/24/developers-want-more-more-more-the-2024-results-from-stack-overflow-s-annual-developer-survey/
Ryan chats with Jon Bevan, a software engineer currently building the cloud version of Scriptrunner, an Atlassian app, about the concept of tech debt. They explore how tech debt can arise from outdated technology choices, shortcuts, and the need for maintenance work. They also delve into the challenges of upgrading dependencies and the potential scope creep of requirements and features over time. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/23/the-problem-with-the-tech-debt-mindset/
