The Stack Overflow Podcast

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, and Loïc Houssier, CTO at Superhuman, dive into how engineering teams can navigate paradigm shifts in a world of constant technological change. They discuss the importance of leadership in an ever-shifting industry and highlight the concept of aligned autonomy as a way to empower teams and increase organizational velocity.

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NEAR is the blockchain for AI, enabling AI agents to transact freely across networks.

Connect with Illia on LinkedIn and X, and read the original Transformers paper that Illia co-authored in 2017.

Today’s shoutout goes to Populous badge winner Adi Lester for answering the question DataTable - foreach Row, EXCEPT FIRST ONE.

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Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.

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Today we’re shouting out a Famous Question badge winner, user jkfe, for their question How to hide/show thymeleaf fields based on controller condition?.

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Jon Skeet, for those not in the know, is legendary here at Stack Overflow. He even got his own Chuck Norris Facts-style jokes. 

Jon has graced the podcast before in the early days on episodes 4, 72, and 123.

He’s so good at answering Stack Overflow questions that he appeared at Stack Overflow’s old NYC office and answered them in person. 

While he’s not the only million rep user, he was the first, so we ran the numbers on him. 

Have a question? Jon Skeet has probably answered it on Stack Overflow. You can also find him on Blue Sky.

Looking for C# 3.5? Spoiler alert: you won’t find it. Learn why from Jon’s very helpful question What are the correct version numbers for C#?

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Tobiko Data is creating a new standard in data transformation with their Cloud and SQL integrations. You can keep up with their work by joining their Slack community.

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Congrats to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó, whose answer to What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim? was saved by over 100 users.

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Heroku is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying, scaling, and managing apps. 

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Congrats to Populist badge winner AmaDaden  for their answer to How to generate a legend with colors in PlantUML?.

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Ryan and Ben welcome Alex Malcoci, CEO and founder of MiniProto, to talk innovations in hardware prototyping, the evolving complexities of the global supply chain, the impact of the US-China trade war on manufacturing, and how automation in production could lead to new training programs for future engineers.

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MiniProto is a US-based prototyping manufacturer revolutionizing the way we develop and interact with hardware. 

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Shoutout to an Unsung Hero of Stack Overflow, Hamed Jimoh, who deserves upvotes for their more than 10 accepted answers with a zero score.

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The Trust and Safety team is using aliases in this episode. Learn more about who the Community Management team is at Stack Overflow. 

Explore how we keep our community safe in our Code of Conduct. 

Congratulations to Lifeboat badge recipient Arvin Yorro, who won it for their helpful answer to the question Docker Desktop - WSL update failed.

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Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to the growing need for sustainable content monetization and fair compensation for creators in an AI-driven world, and how this connects to Cloudflare’s mission to build a better internet.

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Connect with Georges on LinkedIn and see his work on inside.java.

Listen to our previous episode with Georges, a celebration of Java’s 25th anniversary. 

Today we’re shouting out the age-old question What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it?, which was answered 31 times as a community effort.

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