A newsletter by developers, for developers, curated by Cassidy Williams and the Stack Overflow team. Every week, we’ll share a collection of great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web.
This week: Dealing with code review anxiety, the ethics of multitasking while working remotely, and the math of card shuffling.
This week: A framework for understanding generative language models, best practices for loaning money to a friend, and useful but overlooked developer skills.
This week: The real 10x developer, outlawing password managers at work, and fixing the two-page login.
This week: How customer feedback shaped OverflowAI, how to stop scrolling when you should be working, and how to hack your score in ’24.
This week: Chunking data for RAG applications, how to start developing an existing project in Git, and a new feature to make asking questions on Stack Overflow easier for newcomers.
This week: How devs are using CodeGen tools, how to respond when a client does an unauthorized penetration test on your platform, and whether music can make food taste better.
This week: going behind the scenes with our enhanced search feature, trying to not get arrested for photographing seahorses, and squaring away all the ways to make CSS shapes.
This week: pondering why a paltry percentage of GenAI projects makes it to production, exploring the limits of the object-oriented programming paradigm, and going back in time with the history of the world's first planetarium.
This week: we've got big news with two new partnerships, exploring the circular reasoning behind gravity, and rewilding the internet.
This week: interviewing the creator of the most-widely deployed database, pondering why XML didn't catch on, and appreciating the elegance and function of the humble water fountain button.
This week: Is tech generating a new bubble? Can you use LaTeX to put adorable little hearts on top of your "i" so everyone knows your love is imaginary? Will Pluto be mad if we find a new ninth planet?
This week: how to run data engineering without burning out your team, why they bothered with HTTP instead of just shipping HTML over FTP, and what happens when burnout hits farmers.
This week: a year in the life of AI at Stack Overflow, crying in front of your thesis advisor, and the time zone of the moon.
This week: a year in the life of AI at Stack Overflow, crying in front of your thesis advisor, and the time zone of the moon.
This week: pair programming with CodeGen assistants, whether using AI means you're smarter now, and when rain improves your Wi-Fi reception.
This week: the data costs of observability, the legal consequences of not understanding your Miranda rights, and the benefits of scripting in the primary project language.
This week: we talk with the creator of Node.js and Deno, calculate the stats on our rep, and consider what legacy our code is leaving.
This week: the path to AI adoption, the legality of taking free stuff, and the hot new Core Web Vital just dropped.
This week: tips on how to get your RAG in order, pictures that let you program, and Java inches closer to becoming Rust.
This week: how we're partnering to ensure LLMs acknowledge our community's contributions, why a slow train is like walking into a wall, and what design patterns encourage junk data.
This week: an answer for the perennial question of who owns this service, a question about the name for scissor makers, and names of companies that are also the name of a person.
This week: the AI bot that fixes security flaws, the legality of phone lines that are usually unusually busy, and tech jobs lose their shine.
This week: your company's stock price is taking our jobs, brain development after 25, and why 100% unit test coverage is actually a bad idea.
This week: we're celebrating our annual Stack Gives Back event, cutting to the chase in work DMs, and wondering what the rest of the world thinks about Comic Sans.