The Stack Overflow Podcast

This week we chat about Deno 1.0, a new runtime for executing JavaScript and TypeScript outside of the web browser. Plus, Stack wins a Webby for best Community website, and the ins and outs of copying other people's code the right way.

This week we chat with Jenn Shiffer, a web developer, pixel artist, and tech satirist. She currently works as the director of community engineering at Glitch.

To kick things off, we talk about the recent furloughs at Stack Overflow, and the plan our leadership team laid out to lead the business through this challenging time. Later, we discuss Zoom's acquisition of Keybase, the upcoming Bitcoin halving, and the release of Deno v1.0.0.

On this week's episode, we chat Jeff Fritz and Claire Novotny, both of whom serve as PM's on Microsoft's .Net team. We chat about how a foundation helps open source software communities to grow and what it's like to be a live coder on Twitch.

This is part two of our interview with Prof. Sham Kakade. We discuss a contact tracing app he has been working on and how technology can help us fight the pandemic while protecting civil liberties.

This week, we chat with Sham Kakade, a professor of computer science, statistics, and data science at the University of Washington. A group from his university, along with volunteers from Microsoft, is creating a contact tracing app called Covid Safe. Sham explains how technology could make it possible for democratic nations to fight the pandemic while preserving civil liberties.

On this week's episode, we talk about the fraught efforts to social distance in NYC and how Jean-Luc Picard would have handled this pandemic. We also walk through the history of React and the boom in remote conferences and concerts happening in virtual spaces like Animal Crossing and Fortnite.

On this week's episode, we chat with JJ Asghar and Elizabeth K Joseph, two developer advocates from IBM who work with COBOL on a regular basis. COBOL programmers are in high demand as unemployment systems across at least a dozen US states have crashed under heavy demand. JJ and Elizabeth not only know how to use COBOL, but how to integrate it with modern tools and frameworks.

This is part two of our conversation with Jon Chan and Adam Lear, two developers from our community. They work on all aspects of our public facing Q&A sites, as well as tools for our users and moderators. If you've ever been curious about how we build things inside Stack, and how we decide what to build, this episode is for you.

This week we chat with Adam Lear and Jon Chan, two developers who work on the community team at Stack Overflow. We grill them on the best way to measure developer productivity and what it's like creating software for a community of tens of millions of coders, all of whom have strong opinions about how the product should work.