How Developers Can Best Negotiate Their Salary
Whether it’s your first position out of college or a more advanced, senior role, receiving a job offer in development is an exciting accomplishment. It can be easy to get wrapped up in the excitement,...
View ArticlePodcast #119 – This Podcast is Definitely a Simulation
Welcome to The Stack Overflow Podcast episode #119 recorded Thursday, October 12, 2017 at the Stack Overflow HQ in NYC. Today’s motley crew includes VP and GM of Stack Overflow Jay Hanlon, CTO David...
View ArticlePluralsight & Stack Overflow: Helping the World’s Developers Learn New Skills
Today we’re excited to announce a partnership with Pluralsight, the enterprise technology learning platform. Stack Overflow’s mission has always been to the help the world’s developers; whether it’s...
View ArticleHelping Teams Get Started
How we tested, designed, and built a brand-new Team onboarding process Two weeks ago, we released Stack Overflow for Teams—a way for teams to share information privately. A ton of work over the last...
View ArticleStack Overflow and Pursuit: Nurturing A New Generation of Developers
The tech industry has created more companies, jobs, and wealth than ever before. But not everyone is benefitting from those opportunities. Because of financial and structural barriers, people without...
View ArticleStack Speaks: Talking text mining and developer data on the Cause A Scene...
Kim Crayton from #causeascene podcast. Stack Speaks is a chance for us to highlight interesting appearances, talks, and presentations from Stack Overflow employees. Recently, I sat down with Kim...
View ArticleKnowledge Engineering: Intuit’s Chief Innovation Officer Explains Their...
We are entering a new era in artificial intelligence, one where exciting breakthroughs seem to arrive every week. But the roots of today’s AI revolution actually date back many decades. So what...
View ArticleSing Me A Song of Stack Overflow: A Musical Tail Call Optimization
When Anjana Vakil and Natalia Margolis applied to speak at !!Con (read Bang Bang Con) this year, they wanted to take the call for ‘non-traditional’ talks to heart while still sharing useful insights....
View ArticleWhat a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community
Hi, my name is Sara Chipps, first time Stack blogger, long time Stacker (I’ve always wanted to say that!). I’m the new Director of Public Q&A at Stack Overflow. I’ve been at Stack for a year now,...
View ArticleMeet the Public Q&A team
Hi. I’m Meg Risdal, the Product Manager for Public Q&A. Today I shared a bit about what’s upcoming on Stack Overflow based on the strategy Sara Chipps, the Director of Public Q&A, wrote about...
View ArticleWhat’s in the Works: Improving Feedback for All Users
I’m Meg Risdal, the new Product Manager for Public Q&A. My team works on the public platform and the community tools that help power it (in contrast to our private Q&A products, Stack Overflow...
View ArticleResearch Update: Impact of the Ask Question Wizard
Welcome to this month’s installment of Stack Overflow research updates! Since November of last year, my colleague Donna Choi and I have been posting (over on Meta) bite-size updates about the...
View ArticleApollo Mission: The Pros and Cons of Being an Early Adopter of New Technology
When humans decided to try and land on the moon, they had to invent a lot of the technology for the project from scratch. It was hard, expensive, time-consuming work with lots of wrong turns and dead...
View Article“They Didn’t Teach Us This”: A Crash Course for Your First Job in Software
There’s a curious phenomenon that happens when new web developers take their first job. You’ve just gotten your CS degree or graduated from bootcamp, and you’ve spent months or years learning to write...
View ArticleHow This Git Whiz Grew His Career Through Stack Overflow
We spoke to Sascha Wolf, a Senior Full-Stack Developer from Cologne, about collaborating with strangers on the internet, the success of a personal approach in recruitment, and how Stack Overflow is...
View ArticlePractical Ways to Write Better JavaScript
In our 2019 Dev Survey, we asked what kind of content Stack Overflow users would like to see beyond questions and answers. The most popular response was “tech articles written by other developers.” So...
View ArticleJoel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
Earlier this year, Clive Thompson, veteran technology journalist and best-selling author, stopped by Stack Overflow for a chat with our founder and CEO Joel Spolsky. Thompson’s latest book, Coders, is...
View ArticleMeet the Bots that Help Moderate Stack Overflow
September 20th marks the third year anniversary of Natty, which is a chat based robot that detects non-answers posted as answers. Built by a team called SOBotics, which consists of members from the...
View ArticleMeet the Developer Who Took Stack Overflow from Screen to Stage
We chatted with Jen Weber, developer at Cardstack and open source advocate, who found a creative way to engage with Ember users and the wider developer community via livestream Stack Overflow...
View ArticleResearch update: Improving the question-asking experience
Hi, my name is Lisa. I am a Product Designer on the Community Product team and I’m excited to provide this month’s UX research update!If you’ve asked a question recently, you may have noticed some...
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