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.
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WBIT #5: Building a framework to lure web devs to mobile
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Improving error monitoring with AI
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Can climate tech startups address the current crisis?
Lisbeth cofounded and coleads the Compute for Climate Fellowship, which funds climate tech startups using advanced cloud computing and AI. Applications are open until April 6, 2025.Read about how some climate tech startups are leveraging GenAI.Connect with Lisbeth on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user JohnsonYuan earned a Lifeboat badge by answering Why can't I enter the url on my phone's browser to view my live site?. Nice work!
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Sharing the power of the command line
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Is Postgres the best database for GenAI?
Postgres is an open-source database. EDB offers enterprise-grade features and support for Postgres from self-managed to fully-managed, cloud-based DBaaS.Find Jezz on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jonny, who won a Populist badge with their exceptional answer to quantile function for a vector of dates.
How can AI perform on the edge?
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Secure coding beyond just memory safety
Semgrep is an AppSec platform that lets devs deploy static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scans. Explore their docs.Tanya is the author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Alice and Bob Learn Application Security.She’s also written for our blog:Three layers to secure a software development organization and Continuous delivery, meet continuous security.Secure coding might be an issue of national security. Follow Tanya on LinkedIn or check out her website.Stack Overflow user Reishin earned a Populist badge with their answer to piping from stdin to a python code in a bash script.
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Writing tests with AI, but not LLMs
Diffblue Cover is an AI agent for testing complex Java code at scale. Check out their docs to get started automating unit tests today.This article will help you understand the difference between Diffblue Cover and Copilot.Find Animesh on LinkedIn.Stack Overflow user Keet Sugathadasa earned a Populist badge by answering a question in the CI/CD Collective: Gitlab CI CD variable are not getting injected while running gitlab pipeline.
One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy.
CLEAR is an identity company trying to take the friction out of air travel (such as with TSA PreCheck, available through CLEAR), stadium events, and other experiences that require security screening. Find Caitlin on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Patrick Pijnappel, who earned a Populist badge with their answer to Redirect all output to file using Bash on Linux?. It’s helped 230,000 people and counting.
WBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
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Solving the data doom loop
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A distributed database that can withstand a meteor strike
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