The Stack Overflow podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming. Hosted by Paul Ford and Ben Popper, the series features questions from our community, interviews with fascinating guests, and hot takes on what’s happening in tech. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. It’s best known for being the largest, most trusted online community for developers and technologists. More than 100 million people come to Stack Overflow every month to ask questions, help solve coding problems, and develop new skills.
Changing of the guards: one co-host departs, and a new one enters
Paul is stepping away down as CEO of Postlight to focus more on understanding climate change and how we can address it. The science hurts his brain.
Cassidy Williams, currently at Netlify, has published articles on our blog and provides links in our newsletter.
We dig into some of the results of the dev survey, including how kids today are learning to code on the internet. There's so much to learn from now!
Did everyone step back from working full time? Our survey data shows a decrease in full time employed respondents. Was there an existential moment for everyone during the pandemic where they thought that there must be something else?
Our surveyed devs love Svelte but get paid the most for Ruby on Rails.
This week's Lifeboat badge goes to Suren Raj for his answer to Java convert bytes[] to File.