The Stack Overflow Podcast

We chat about the corruption of color.js and faker.js, open source libraries widely used across GitHub and NPM. We explore some of the organizations trying to find ways to better fund and secure open source software and unpack the possibility that these kinds of disruptions will only become more common in the future.

On this episode we chat with Maureen Lonergan, VP of AWS Certification and Training, and Scott Barneson, Director of Learning Products at AWS. They share some fascinating stats about the global expansion of AWS education and the new models they are building for diverse learners, including those who prefer to learn through video games.

We chat with Philippe Humeau, founder and CEO of CrowdSec, which bills itself as an open-source & collaborative IPS (intrusion prevention system). He explains why hackers are always the first to industrialize new DevOps practices and the security scenarios that keep him up at night.

On this episode, we chat with Michael Carrico, director of data science, and Chris Wones, an engineering lead. Both work at 84.51°, which builds software and data solutions to power the pricing and promotions that reach over eight million shoppers a day across 2,500 Kroger stores.

Ben, Ryan, and Cassidy talk with Esther Jang, Matt Johnson, and Chris Webb of Seattle’s Local Connectivity Lab, a nonprofit that works in concert with the University of Washington to facilitate community-focused technology development and research. They discuss how they’re working to build community-run LTE networks that expand connectivity, how making network technology visible helps people understand it, and why expanding digital access requires understanding social infrastructure.

Cassidy recently joined the Great Resignation, leaving one job for another, a move prompted by pandemic era reflection and the new normal of remote work...without travel. Ceora took the opposite trajectory, moving into tech after the pandemic shuttered a job in events. On today's episode we talk about how this unique moment in the history of labor is playing out for developers and those in the tech industry.

Today’s episode is bookended by two questions about professional or academic ethics. Ben, Ryan, and Cassidy start by discussing a question on the Workplace Stack Exchange about whether to use open-source projects as dependencies for work projects. TL;DR: If you want to own the code you write outside work, get that in writing when you take the job.

Our second query is a question on Academia Stack Exchange from a student who’s wondering if they cheated because they found the solution to an exam question in the course of studying. In between: Jack Dorsey resigns, the problem with phantom braking, and the time Cassidy almost won a car.

We chat with Chris Ferdinandi, affectionately known as the VanillaJS guy. He has a newsletter, podcast, eBooks, and courses all trying to teach people to use more resilient and simple browser-native JavaScript free of the complications that come from elaborate frameworks.

Ben sits down with Bill Pearson, VP of the Internet of Things Group and General Manager of Developer Enablement at Intel, to talk about computing on the edge and how developers are using AI across use cases to make their apps faster and smarter.

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we chat with Mike Hendrickson, the VP of Tech and Dev products at Skillsoft, about the certifications and upskilling that they offer, as well as how that fits into the changing world of developer recruitment.