The Stack Overflow Podcast

This week we chat with Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he helps lead its Crypto Fund and is launching a Crypto Startup School devoted to educating young developers and entrepreneurs. We talk web security, machine learning, and crypto.

This week we chatted with Charlton McIlwain, a professor of media, culture, and communication at NYU. He is the author of the new book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.

It's Thanksgiving in the United States this week, so we're releasing the podcast a day early. This week we skipped the banter sessions so we could spend more time on the interview with Juan Pablo Buriticá and Brian Brennan from Splice.

Our guest this week is Kent C Dodds, a developer who makes a terrific impact on the community through his workshops, talks, and newsletter. We chat about why he loves React and how he automated his way from a business analyst to a full fledged software engineer.  Plus, the value of execution versus intelligence, and how version control worked in the days before Git.

This week on the podcast, we sit down with Jess Lee, one of the co-founders of DEV, a social network where programmers come to learn, chat, and share ideas with a community of other coders. She explains her strange journey from working as a tour manager for Kidz Bop to building one of the fastest growing and most progressive online platforms for software developers.

This week our guest is Clive Thompson, journalist, programmer, and author of the book 'Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and Remaking of the World.' He shares the secret to getting any developer to open up during an interview: ask them about the worst bug they've ever had to deal with.

We chat with guests Chloe Condon and Iheanyi Ekechukwu about the pros and cons of being a programmer with ADHD. Plus - giants waves of molten molasses!

We talk Tilde Club and bitcoin spam, then go deep on mechanical keyboards with Cassidy Williams

After a year off the air, the Stack Overflow podcast is back with new hosts, new ideas, and a new CEO

It's a Stack Overflow Podcast not-so-hostile takeover!

Jon Skeet in the NYC Stack Overflow HQ to celebrate One Million Rep, so we gave him the podcast reins to talk about whatever he wants! And mwhahahaha he wants to talk about... diversity and inclusion in tech and his work educating others on how to be better allies! Wait, that's not diabolical at all. That's actually... a really thoughtful and much needed topic to discuss in the tech space... especially now. Is he really that great a guy? Yes. The answer is yes. So, for this episode we've invited Casey Ashenhurst (SO Inclusion Manager & Senior People Ops Partner) and Cassie Montrose (SO Executive Assistant extraordinaire) to chat on these topics along with Jess, Ilana, and sometimes Jay. Seriously, this is the quietest Jay's ever been. You're welcome, world.

You'll also get:

A much nicer rant than we're used to (Jon is British after all) about a regrettable trip to the Times Square Applebee's; NY heating makes no sense; and the fact that Broadway etiquette is not a universal trait.

"Jon is a time expert" is said more than once.

Cool stats from Dr Julia Silge about how many people Jon has reached on Stack Overflow on his journey to a million rep. *Spoiler Alert* It's a LOT.

We read Jon Skeet Facts to Jon Skeet mainly just to watch him blush.

Back to that diversity and inclusion talk from the intro: In today's Dev Story, Jon is interviewed by Casey, Cassie, Ilana, and I about his journey to outspoken feminism and how he applies it to the tech sphere. What opened his eyes? What are his policies about conferences? Who inspires him? What happens when you inevitably mess up? What can and should be done in the tech spaces right now? It's a fascinating and educational discussion that we hope to continue in the future.

We have a new Constitution question but before that, we have our very first Constitutional Decree! The Jon Skeet Decree: When adding a comment to your code, you must add a space and a capital letter (if it doesn't specifically call for lowercase) in order to make the comment more readable.

New Constitution question: During the musical Hamilton, when King George sings, "Everybody!" are you allowed to then sing along with the next part? Vote PRO if you think that Yes, you can sing along; or CON if No, you are not Lin-Manuel Miranda and should not sing along under any circumstances. Let us know your thoughts by posting to twitter with #stackoverflowpodcast.

Last week's winner is Aakash Verma, @theUtopianHoe

https://twitter.com/theUtopianHoe/status/943541697840943104

Thanks for listening, and see you next time!

So many important links this week:

Jon's recs to be a better feminist and ally:

Geek Feminist Wikia

Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

Girls Will be Girls by Emer O'Toole

Learn about the UK Women's Equality Party

10 Ways to be a Better Male Feminist

You Will F*ck Up by Ronda Bergman

Restored Relationships UK

Jon's personal blogs and books:

Coding Blog

Feminism and Me

Faith Blog

C# in Depth, 3rd Edition

@jonskeet

Oh hey the Dev Survey Results are here! Check em out.