As promised, here is the grass hat . You can find out more about Earthly here. We spend a little time talking about Nix OS the operating system you can roll back if you don't like a patch. Raise your hand if you remember learning computer science with Turbo Pascal . Maybe you didn't know, but discs aren't as slow as people think. Adam's recent episode is about upending common assumptions on IO performance. Shoutout to our Lifeboat badge winner of the week, Josh Smift, for answering the question:...
Dec 11, 2020•29 min•Ep. 296
You can read about GraphQL here and Apollo here. Cassidy Williams, who curates our newsletter, wrote about her experience as an early adopter of the technology last summer. You can find more on Meteor here . Schmidt also helped create Monument , which he describes as "an affordable live/work art event space in downtown San Francisco. The upstairs is 24 private bedrooms and studio spaces and the downstairs is a 200+ capacity person event venue and makerspace. Our goal is to connect creative peopl...
Dec 08, 2020•34 min•Ep. 295
Gone in a Flash. Actually it took quite a while. Adobe explains its decision to stop supporting Flash here . You can learn more about Ruffle , the Flash emulator written in Rust, here . Here are some tips on writing a developer resume from a hiring manager who's written an entire book on the topic. You can read more about the Supreme Court case considering the limits of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act here and here Our Lifeboat badge of the week goes to a user named simply 4386427, who answered...
Dec 04, 2020•23 min•Ep. 294
You can find more about Resner here . Learn more about the topics we discussed by following some of Resner's suggested links below: People to follow on Twitter: Safyia Noble , Ruha Benjamin , and Kamal Sinclair. Ellen Pao and Project Include. Eli Pariser and New Public by Civic Signals....
Dec 01, 2020•29 min•Ep. 293
You can read more about the operating systems and business principles schools are adopting from their corporate sponsors here . You can read about the latest version of Tailwind and what it has to offer here .
Nov 27, 2020•26 min•Ep. 292
You can find Ferdinandi's post and video here . 12 years ago, back when Stack Overflow was a brand new site with just a few thousand users, someone asked a basic question: What is the difference between a framework and a library? FreeCodeCamp has its own take on this question with a pretty interesting answer. "When you use a library, you are in charge of the flow of the application. You are choosing when and where to call the library. When you use a framework, the framework is in charge of the f...
Nov 24, 2020•16 min•Ep. 291
You can find out more about Sir Berners-Lee's work on Solid here . Other topics discussed in this episode: Docker puts a limit on free containers . That has to be good for the environment. But is it also good for Docker and the future of its products? Sometimes, forcing yourself to make something worth purchasing helps drive innovation. The Tao of Programming isn't new, and some of its technical references are a bit out of date. But it's still good for a laugh and little bit of enlightenment-lit...
Nov 20, 2020•21 min•Ep. 290
You can learn more about the Power of 10 here . TIOBE's latest index can be found here . Our lifeboat of the week goes to lealceldeiro for answering the question: What does the multi: true attribute of HTTP_INTERCEPTORS mean?...
Nov 17, 2020•21 min•Ep. 289
Paul spent the weekend building a parser, cause who doesn't? He needed a Regex, found one on Stack Overflow, looked over the characters, and realized this is not the way to get folks interested or excited about code. "You come across a problem and you think to yourself, I know I'll use a regular expression. Now you have two problems." This sets Sara off on a tangent about CSS. What's wrong with CSS in her opinion. Well, all of it. She shares a few thoughts on how it could have been built right. ...
Nov 13, 2020•16 min•Ep. 288
You can find Sai's videos here . Come for the deep dives on Docker , stay for the live lightboard magic. Yes, I know what the comments say, but no, he isn't writing backwards. Sai also does a lot of work around OpenShift , the containerization software products created by Red Hat. He talks about what the tie up between IBM and Red Hat has been like and how the enterprise is increasingly learning to work with open source. Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Alex for explaining why you're Getti...
Nov 10, 2020•26 min•Ep. 287
Pawel Skolski wrote this definition of the SPA in 2016. "A single-page application is an app that works inside a browser and does not require page reloading during use. You are using these type of applications every day. These are, for instance: Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook or GitHub. SPAs are all about serving an outstanding UX by trying to imitate a “natural” environment in the browser — no page reloads, no extra wait time. It is just one web page that you visit which then loads all other cont...
Nov 06, 2020•15 min•Ep. 286
You can find some more of Holly's work and bio here . She gave a great talk at KubeCon 2020, How to Love K8s and Not Wreck the Planet , which you can watch on YouTube here . And here's a lovely presentation, Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken DevOps Cultures , drawing on her long history of programming and consulting....
Nov 03, 2020•30 min•Ep. 285
You can find a more in depth discussion of these topics on our blog . Prashanth shares his ideas about the importance of community and what it means to be a product led company.
Oct 30, 2020•23 min•Ep. 284
Nicolas will be the first to tell you that the version of Stack Overflow he helped to create began as a clone . It developed into a very popular site on RuNet and through persistent emails, Nic was able to find a way to make it an official part of the Stack family. Nic talks a bit about the unique culture of SO's Russian community and how each regional version of SO, from English to Spanish to Japanese, has developed its own etiquette and approach to moderation and Q&A. Nic and Sara also sha...
Oct 27, 2020•22 min•Ep. 283
We break down some thoughts on this issue, which came to light after a tweet from Tim Nolet . Later in the episode we talk about the debate raging right now around elections and technology. What role should software play and where is regulation appropriate? Last but not least, we consider what the next US administration might do with regards to regulating big tech. Will they lean towards a European model or continue to be more hands off? Shout out to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Kin3Ti...
Oct 23, 2020•27 min•Ep. 282
You can find Kelsey on Twitter here . His Github is here . His personal journey with Kubernetes is detailed in a nice piece here . Kelsey has an interesting role at Google. He sits at the director level but is an independent contributor with no direct reports. Instead he works to help galvanize interest in particular tools and topics, driving adoption at a broad scale....
Oct 20, 2020•30 min•Ep. 281
That skit made it to the front page of Reddit, and was soon seen across the internet. It's nice to make people laugh, but following the surge of interest, Emily also had to deal with severe harassment and cyber stalking. She wrote a piece about the experience which you can find here . In this episode, we discuss how moderation can be improved and the work that remains to be done to make the software industry feel safe and inclusive for everyone....
Oct 16, 2020•32 min•Ep. 280
Has there ever been a gaming company that brought more joy to the world than Nintendo? They were making playing cards back in 1889 and continue to find ways to be different but fun with inventions like the Switch and Labo. Sara gives us some the scoop on Rimworld. Check out the trailer here and feel free to lend your skill to a new mod if you have ideas for how to improve it. A Excel sheet meltdown led to critical health data about the pandemic being lost in the UK. Rows can go to millions, but ...
Oct 13, 2020•22 min•Ep. 279
You can find some of Jack's art and other projects here . Ben breaks through and answers his first SO question —by copy/pasting from the comments, of course. Sara finds the relevant XKCD . Later, we check out Darling.hq , a MacOS translation layer for Linux If you are in the mood to learn programming with colors and shapes, check out the website that Jack built: Maria.cloud...
Oct 09, 2020•19 min•Ep. 278
Sara shares the story of a developer conference that was smoke bombed by an Arduino bot gone haywire. It was this chaos that inspired her to dig deeper into Arduino, which would eventually play a big role in helping her to found her company, Jewelbots . Paul unravels the mystery of what's really inside the Goonie Box: a timepiece, puzzle, and mechanical wonder that Guido uses to test his house guests. This week's lifeboat goes to Terminator17, who helped solve a problem around object detection u...
Oct 06, 2020•24 min•Ep. 277
Today's episode was inspired by a question on folks who postpone a merge for fear of being the one to resolve a conflict. Shout out to Candied Orange for the thoughtful answer. Paul and Sara reminisce about the days before Git, when version control was very different from what it is today, and Paul accidentally left many a project in shambles. Do you remember the days of Subversion and CVS ? Later, we dig into Sara's new adventure with Jupyter Notebooks . They are extremely useful for developers...
Oct 02, 2020•21 min•Ep. 276
Chris is the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as Makers: The New Industrial Revolution . He is lso the CEO of 3DR , founder of the Linux Foundation's Dronecode Project , and founder of the DIY Drones and DIY Robocars communities, including the ArduPilot autopilot project. Not surprisingly, he also created something called GeekDad. If you want to get involved, you can learn how to build your own Donkey Car racer here....
Sep 29, 2020•27 min•Ep. 275
"Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood." Life is lived in stages . Most people are working remotely these days, but offices may return, and even if they don't, these skills could come in handy. Teamwork, persuasion, communication, and leadership, just a few of the things you can learn in this Technion course. Big thanks to TwilioQuest , which has gotten Ben, the worst coder in the world, practicing his Javascript skills again...
Sep 25, 2020•19 min•Ep. 274
You can check out more about the Github news here . Here is the farewell to updates from Moment.js. Would you take a nice bonus today for a pay cut in the future? Stripe is offering its employees that option, spurred by an exodus of developers from dense urban areas. A big thanks to Jim Mischel, who was our lifeboat badge winner of the week....
Sep 22, 2020•21 min•Ep. 273
Oracle is in the midst of trying to negotiate and get approved a deal that would allow it to acquire Tik Tok's US Operations, and allow Tik Tok to avoid a ban on its service in the United States. For US citizens, software being banned over geopolitical concerns is a new reality. What will happen to the code if the deal goes through? Is there a clean room where software updates are inspected before rolling out? Is data segregated to local servers, and if so, will it be siloed from the rest of Tik...
Sep 18, 2020•26 min•Ep. 272
Sophie founded Rest of World in 2019 after a decade of living and working across Asia, Africa & the Middle East, and with companies like Uber and Xiaomi. She graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Kennedy School and Princeton University. Sophie is based in New York. Read why she started this publication in her founder’s note . You can subscribe to Rest of World's newsletter here . In this week's episode we talk about Okash, a peer-to-peer lending app that show what happ...
Sep 15, 2020•30 min•Ep. 271
Along with her work writing and editing, Stephanie works as a product manager at Microsoft and runs Developer Content Digest, a biweekly newsletter with content tips. She has worked for companies like Digital Ocean, Github, and General Assembly. Twitter: @radiomorillo eBooks: developersguidetocontent.com Newsletter and blog: stephaniemorillo.co/links...
Sep 11, 2020•26 min•Ep. 270
Every experienced software engineer can tell you a story about a standardization effort that ended up causing more problems than it solved. Queen Elizabeth's decree adding 280 feet to each mile made it easy to divide up acres, but has haunted those of us stuck with Imperial units ever since. Sara dives into micro frontend services and how they can help to add agility to a modern development team. There is a nice article on the topic here , and Sara found it through the Thought Works Tech Radar ....
Sep 08, 2020•23 min•Ep. 269
You can read the hilarious tale of how Paul was alerted to "Frenchpoop Butt" here . Enjoy an all time classic tale of a security expert being outwitted by his daughter. Her approach was not in his threat model. Want to try your hand at a little hacking? Here's a fun online game called Telehack . We asked some teens what would motivate them to participate more on Stack. The answer was obvious: loot boxes. What kind of digital swag would you want receive for helping spread knowledge across our net...
Sep 04, 2020•22 min•Ep. 268
It's dependencies all the way down ... Remote learning is a bad joke . Who has ideas for some tech or gaming inspired solutions? What's your favorite way to refer to software of very large size ? Everyone's got their favorite nickname for that big ol' pile of code. Lemon juice is recommended in lots of natural cures and remedies. But could it also be MELTING YOUR BONES?...
Sep 01, 2020•23 min•Ep. 267
