The Stack Overflow Podcast

This week we sit down with Guido Bonelli, founder of Dr. Duino, a company that makes custom Arduino boards and kits to help beginners and more experienced hackers create their own electronic projects. He walks us through what has made Arduino so popular, how you can learn to use it, and what the future holds for open source hardware.

This week on the podcast, we talk about folks who like to create their own sandbox to cause and then fix merge conflicts. Better than breaking prod in front of the whole team I suppose?

This week we sit down with Chris Anderson, former editor of Wired magazine and now CEO of the drone company 3DR. He is also the creator of two online communities powered by open source code - DIY Drones and DIY Robocars, where hobbyists and enthusiasts have learned to build autonomous vehicles and perfect the software that controls them.

Well intentioned contributors keep poking you for an update. Little do they know you've left the world of software behind for the joys of carpentry. Plus, a CS course on soft skills so that you can learn to code and get people to enjoy working with you.

This week we chat about GitHub CLI 1.0 and the joy of updates that solve little, persistent problems. Later on we chat about the end of Moment.js and every coder's favorite subject, time. Finally we dig into Stripe's move to pay bonuses but cut salaries for employees who depart big cities for less expensive locales.

This week we talk about how software updates and data flows might work if Oracle acquires Tik Tok. Later on, we chit chat about Nvidia acquiring Arm, and what this means for the future of GPUs and programming, from personal computers to massive machine learning rigs.

This week we chat with Sophie Schmidt, founder of an online publication called Rest of World, an international nonprofit journalism organization that seeks to document what happens when technology, culture and the human experience collide, with a focus on regions that are typically overlooked and underestimated. Our conversation shows how rapidly the global landscape is shifting, and how software is redefining work and life for a new generation of coders and consumers.

This week we chat with Stephanie Morillo, author of 'The Developer's Guide to Content Creation.' She explains how coders can become successful writers, expanding their network and improving their resumé, while learning new skills and sharing their technical insights with others.

We discuss imperial versus metric measurement systems and why the latter reflects excellent API design. We dig into the hype around micro frontends. And we tally up some of the latest exits from Silicon Valley, where the pandemic may be reshaping office culture and the software industry for good.

This week, we learn about Paul's interrogation tactics, ClueBot's ability to spot naughty edits, and Sara's penchant for children who break the rules.