The Stack Overflow Podcast

This week we chat with Tim Nolet, whose commentary appeared in a previous episode after he complained about Amazon forking his OS service and presenting it as new product without so much as a "thanks." Since then they have worked things out, and Tim came on the show to explain what happened, what he builds, and the company he runs.

This week, we chat with Adam Gordon Bell, director of developer relations at Earthly and host of the CoRecursive podcast. We discuss Earthly's efforts to design better build scripts and why engineers enjoy telling stories about mistaken assumptions.

We chat with Geoff Schmidt, CEO and co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, about the need modern web companies and mobile apps have to stitch together multiple databases and cloud services in a way that is simple to query. He talks about the foundation of these ideas with a previous venture, Meteor and how to balance a vibrant open source community with a for-profit SaaS company.

As Adobe ends its support for Flash, we look back at its impact on gaming, graphics, and the web. And fear not, some kind folks have written a Flash emulator in Rust called Ruffle. Later, we discuss how to lay out your resume in order to get noticed and a Supreme Court case in the US that considers whether scraping data from public sites should be illegal.

This week we chat with Lyel Resner, a fellow at the MIT Civic Data Lab and Adjunct Professor of Civic Technology at NYU's ITP program. He explains the surge in tech startups looking to ground themselves in ethical practices, and argues that the extra work and expense of these considerations are outweighed by the eventual costs that come with ignoring ethics until a company is more well established.

Wealthy individuals and corporations have been giving gifts and getting libraries named after themselves for decades. But there is a new trend emerging - big tech companies are contributing everything from supplies to curriculum.

The conversation in this week's episode was inspired by a blog and video from Chris Ferdinandi. He talked about converting jQuery plugins and Vue components into vanilla JS, and recording himself in the process. He also tried this conversion with a React demo app. While discussing all the new things one can do with the web, we ended up discussing a fundamental question: What is the difference between a language and a framework?

This week we chat about SOLID, a project involving web creator Tim Berners-Lee. The idea is to provide individuals in Britain with a secure portal on the web that can store critical health data and give the patient the ability to move or share it securely. It involves some cool approaches to encryption and that old dream, The Semantic Web.

In this episode, we chat about "The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code." After that we discuss Python passing Java in TIOBE's long running index of popular programming languages. And finally we talk about different mindsets you can adopt as a developer. Are you discipline focused, or results oriented?

We review the things about programming and tech that drive us nuts. If we had the chance to do it all over again, how would we build Regex, CSS, or Bluetooth?