The Stack Overflow Podcast

The home team talks game development and PowerPoint, the good ol’ days of Game Boy, and wild facts about the largest species in the deer family. Plus: Was that summer everyone was playing Pokémon GO the closest we’ll ever get to world peace?

We chat with Claire Denton, Director of Product Management at Opentext, about her company's approach to crafting APIs, helping developers find the right tools, and transforming industries from supply chain to security.

Code completion is part of every programmer’s working environment, but to plenty of people, it still feels like magic. On this episode, Meredydd Lyff, founder and CEO of Anvil, joins the home team to discuss code completion: what it is and how it works, from first principles to best practices. Plus: Is 90% of biology attributable to magic gremlins?

The home team convenes to discuss the end of the GPU shortage, how the no-code/low-code movement is impacting developers, and why job candidates should flip the script and interview their interviewers.

The home team chats with Devraj Varadhan, SVP of Engineering at Ripple, about crypto companies bracing for economic uncertainty, how Ripple’s solutions might help to expand financial inclusion in underserved markets, and why companies should take the long view rather than getting distracted by hype.

On today’s episode we chat with Jody Bailey, Stack Overflow’s new Chief Technology Officer. He recounts his path from physics to sales to programming and shares thoughts on what our organization can build for the future.

In this sponsored episode, we chat with Mike Hendrickson, VP of Tech and Dev Products at Skillsoft, about his organization's latest research into the skillsets that lead to highly compensated roles. Mike breaks down the hard and soft skills associated with landing a role as an security architect, enterprise cloud architect, and data scientist/architect.

The home team chats about Ethereum's long-delayed difficulty bomb and what engineering by consensus looks like when there is no centralized authority insisting on a ship date. Plus, how to contribute to commercial open-source projects, the fascinating research behind Figma’s spring animation, and more rumors of Apple’s long-awaited AR/VR headset.

Ben and Matt unpack the results of the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, from remote and hybrid work to preferred learning methods to how devs actually spend their time. Plus: Ikea’s surprisingly detailed augmented reality.

The home team convenes to discuss the full public release of AI pair programmer GitHub Copilot, the VPN company that turned off subscriptions to protect its customers’ privacy, and the moral hazard of “free-to-play” apps and games.