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stackoverflowknows October 11, 2021

Shift to remote work prompted more cybersecurity questions than any breach

For this edition of Stack Overflow Knows, we did a deep dive into cybersecurity topics across Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites to spotlight trends and reflect on how conversations are evolving within the developer and technical community.

David Gibson Senior Data Analyst

code-for-a-living October 18, 2021

Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers

Code quality affects the mental state of a programmer, communication within their team, and the incentives attached to their work. Improve your code and you can improve your organizational health and competence as a whole.

Isaac Lyman

code-for-a-living October 13, 2021

Why solve a problem twice? Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code

Software design patterns are like best practices employed by many experienced software developers. You can use design patterns to make your application scalable and flexible.

Giridhar Talla

code-for-a-living October 6, 2021

Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization

If you have a REST API accessible on the internet, you're going to need to secure it. Here's the best practices on how to do that.

Sam Scott and Graham Neray

The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.

October 19, 2021

Podcast 385: Getting your first job off the CSS mailing list

You're crafting the color of the button on the component of the feature for the platform, m'kay.

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October 15, 2021

Podcast 384: Can AI solve car accidents and find you a parking space?

Maybe cars won't drive you home, but with AI and crowdsourcing, maybe they can avoid driving us crazy.

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October 12, 2021

Podcast 383: A database built for a firehose

In this episode, we chat with Stephen Goldberg and Kyle Bernhardy from HarperDB. Their startup was born of the firehose of Twitter data during sporting events, and now they have a database designed to scale well for real-time data. Show notes HarperDB is a startup that focuses on highly scalable databases that handle real-time data. …

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October 8, 2021

Podcast 382: Wait, we’re all content moderators now?

How many gigawatts does it take to mint a pixel?

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code-for-a-living October 4, 2021

Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder.

We discuss how to handle challenges like this with speed and scale in our latest piece from Hyland

Corey Kidd and Ben Truscott

community September 30, 2021

Check out the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old in Q3

Ten years on the internet is a long time. Let's celebrate the Stack Exchange sites that, as of Q3, have hit that milestone.

Juan M Manager, Community Management Team

September 28, 2021

No joke—you can buy our copy/paste keyboard right now

Become a better coder...with this one weird click. The copy and paste keyboard from our April Fool's joke is real and available for purchase.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community September 22, 2021

GitLab launches Collective on Stack Overflow

A new way to discover and share knowledge about version control, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and all-remote workflows

Jascha Drel

community September 19, 2021

The Loop: Our Community department roadmap for Q4 2021

It’s time once again for the ritual that I know we’ve all come to love: the quarterly update on Community team projects. This quarter’s projects are constrained by a lack of available technical/engineering resources on our Public Platform team, so you’ll see that we are focusing on projects that don’t require assistance from them.

Philippe Beaudette VP-Community

code-for-a-living September 18, 2021

Level Up: Introduction to TypeScript

In this one-off Level Up session, we’re exploring TypeScript, a popular programming language used for web development. Josh Goldberg, a Staff Frontend Developer at Codecademy, walks us through the basics of TypeScript. We discuss its relationship to JavaScript, how TypeScript is used in real production environments (like Codecademy itself!), how to get involved in the…

Alex Kuntz

code-for-a-living September 13, 2021

Why your data needs a QA process

At this point, most software engineers see the value of testing their software regularly. But are you testing your data engineering as well?

Corissa E Haury

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