The Stack Overflow Podcast

This week we chat with Jocelyn Harper, a senior software engineer at Paypal, about the journey from office manager at a construction company to java programmer at a major tech firm.

This week we sit down with Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel and co-creator of Next.JS. We chat about the front end development trends he is excited about in 2021 and how small improvements in performance, down to a hundred milliseconds, can make a huge difference for e-commerce sites.

On today's episode we chat about the rise of retro-computing, the appeal of e-ink readers, and what we would pay for /dev/null as a service.

In this episode, we discuss the appeal of great API design, when it's worth spending money on a custom CMS, and why every app evolves towards greater complexity until it can send email.

This week we chat about coding like it's 1985 with BBC BASIC and a delightful Twitter bot that will run your BASIC code and publish the results. After that we take a deep dive into the quantified life, with a year-in-review from a blogger who logged every single thing they did in 2020...in 15-minute increments. Also, Svelte, lifeboats, and some predictions for the new year.

The Stack Overflow podcast is celebrating a milestone: Episode 300! As we ring in the new year we've brought on the man who co-created this podcast and co-founded Stack Overflow, Joel Spolsky. We chat about the origins of Stack, ideas for a new kind of "social media," and what's happening with Joel's latest venture, Hash.ai.

This week we chat about the massive Solarigate hack, how attitudes towards bullying have changed over the years, and the programming projects we have in mind for the holidays.

It's Christmas Day, so we left a podcast under the tree for you. We finished up our conversation with Li Ouyang, a software engineer at Coinbase, about what its like to code for the world of crypto. We also give a shoutout to our annual Winter Bash, where you can win some great digital swag by answering questions on Stack Overflow, and tease a very special guest coming up for episode 300.

In this episode, we chat with Li Ouyang, who made the transition from derivatives trader on Wall Street to programmer at a crypto startup. She talks about her education at The Flatiron School, her favorite programming languages, and the advice she gives family members who want to put their savings entirely into Bitcoin.

This week we chat with Jory Burson and Myles Borins of the OpenJS Foundation. Javascriptlandia is a new initiative from the foundation that allows passionate fans and contributors to help fund and maintain the Javascript ecosystem. And yes, there was once a plan to acquire a private island and certify it as a nation state so that they could start giving out top level .js domains.