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.
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.
