You can find out more about Suyog and his career here . True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing. He's on Twitter here . You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services here . Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about here . If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the years, check out his blog archives here . Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, lhf, for anw...
Mar 23, 2021•30 min•Ep. 325
You can check out more of Tom's work and some of his books on his website, Everything SysAdmin . Tom also wrote a great blog post for our site that explains his method for crafting a positive feedback loop between Dev and Ops using real-time documentation. You can find Tom on Twitter and check out his books on Sys Admin and Cloud System Administration ....
Mar 19, 2021•25 min•Ep. 324
Ian is Brooklyn bred a tech junkie, NBA stats nerd, hip hop connoisseur, and co-creator of GameFlo and Ujima Now . He graduated from Brown University and was a teaching fellow at FullStack Academy before coming to Stack Overflow. You can find him on Twitter and Github . Kyle Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada. You can find him on Github , Twitter , and his website . Our life...
Mar 16, 2021•29 min•Ep. 323
It was a pandemic, Olivia was on maternity leave after giving birth, and she also had a toddler to take care of. Somehow she still managed to build a website, macovidvaccines.com , that provided far better service than what was available through government and private industry. You can find out more about Olivia on the sites below. Twitter Website LinkedIn...
Mar 12, 2021•25 min•Ep. 322
Cleghorn works for Defense Digital Services. On Twitter, the group describes itself as "a SWAT team of nerds on tours of duty." You can read more about the group's goals on their website . You can see some of his work over on Hacker One.
Mar 09, 2021•22 min•Ep. 321
This week's discussion was inspired by an article from Sandi Metz, which you can find here . It begins with a terrific line, defining the half-life of software as, "the amount of time required for half of an application's code to change so much that it becomes unrecognizable." This topic also connected to a post we ran on the Stack Overflow blog this week, Sacrificial Architecture: learning from abandoned systems. The author, Mohamad Aladdin, suggest that one should "think of your code quality a...
Mar 05, 2021•21 min•Ep. 320
You can find the paper on MuZero here . He blogs at Furidamu and can be found on Twitter here . The story on drug discovery powered by AI can be found here .
Mar 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 319
If you’re a programmer working with npm, Sara has some basic advice on best practices that will keep your codebase safe. Today’s discussion was inspired by a blog post from Michel Gorny which you can find here . Need to simplify the address where people can send you bitcoins? Check out https://ens.domains/ , which even offers .club for your TLD. Thanks to Tagir Valeev for answering the question: How to Split odd and even numbers and sum of both in collection using Stream . You’re our lifeboat ba...
Feb 26, 2021•23 min•Ep. 318
Blake has a PhD in physics from Yale and is the quantum platform lead. You can find him on Twitter here and read some of his recent writing here . Robert is VP of IBM Quantum Ecosystem Development, IBM Research. He's the author of Dancing with Qubits and has put together a great list of tutorial videos on his website. No Lifeboat badge winner today, but if you're a fan of Schrödinger's cat, be sure to check out this question from our Quantum Computing Stack Exchange....
Feb 23, 2021•30 min•Ep. 317
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Feb 22, 2021•2 min
A nice story on how to avoid the Nomad Tax Trap. Got a lot of employees moving to Texas? The state is notorious for the number of patent lawsuits filed there, and having employees living in the area may expose companies to great legal liability. If the work from home boom is here to stay, get ready for a lot of "cost-of-living" adjustments to follow . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to kd12 for explaining: How to get an element by its data-id in jQuery...
Feb 19, 2021•16 min•Ep. 316
Pattern matching in Python 3 - a nice new feature, a gift to Stack Overflow point seekers, or a big pain in the neck? Curious about the Jamstack? You can find lots of great information on how it works and who works with it here . Want to follow Matt? He's on Twitter here . Our lifeboat badge winner for this episode is Jim Mischel, who explained how to: Find the first character in a string that is a letter....
Feb 16, 2021•36 min•Ep. 315
Thanks to Marceli Wac for sending us a question about cron jobs. We love getting mail from listeners and try our best to read interesting questions on the show. The goal for Ben's app is simple: let anyone register their intention to show up to the dog park at a certain time so that strangers can have a better chance of arriving at the same time and get some exercise for the pups. What's the simplest web app that would collect the least personal information and reset every 24 hours. Bonus points...
Feb 12, 2021•27 min•Ep. 314
You can check out Cassidy's course on React here. It will teach you how to "build a reusable and declarative React component library. It's perfect for developers who are looking to build a scalable design system for their team and product." If you're not in the mood to subscribe, Cassidy would recommend Free Code Camp . There's lots of info about Cassidy's various projects at cassidoo.co . You can catch her coding live at twitter.com/cassidoo , Thursdays at 12:30 PT/2:30 Central/3:30 Eastern. Sa...
Feb 09, 2021•29 min•Ep. 313
Check out the great post from Laura Nolan, a senior engineer at Slack, breaking down their outage. Paul wants some simple command line utilities for "fix-server" and "boot-it-all-up." Clubhouse was known early on for being popular with Silicon Valley, but it's increasingly becoming a global phenomenon. You don't have to wait for it to go public to invest, you can buy shares right now in Agora, the Chinese company powering its real time audio chat. Got ideas for how we can version Q&A on Stac...
Feb 05, 2021•26 min•Ep. 312
Maybe you don't think GameStop is a tech story, but rest assured, the screenwriting duo behind The Social Network and 21 will inject plenty of nerdery into the Hollywood version. Sara is eager to share the history of CSS , and all the ways it has let her down. We dig into a wise act of self-prersevation from Ben B Johnson. As he writes : "Similar to SQLite , Litestream is open source but closed to contributions. This keeps the code base free of proprietary or licensed code but it also helps me c...
Feb 02, 2021•32 min•Ep. 311
You can follow Brian on Twitter. and check out the Cloudcast here. If you're just getting started, he has a cloud basics podcast that covers a new topic each month. And if you are just really, really into containers, well he's got you covered . Paul was talking with someone who mentors a lot of young coders. What are they all into these days? Typescript? Web Assembly? Nope, they're all getting AWS certified. A certification for AWS , Azure, and GCP has become an efficient way to break into the j...
Jan 29, 2021•32 min•Ep. 310
Today's conversation was inspired by a great blog post from Charity Majors. We also discuss the Chrome team's decision to migrate Puppeteer to Typescript , and the way in which large tech organizations are increasingly interconnected by a set of open source tools and platforms. Lastly, we discuss the impact expanded funding for community colleges could have on the pipeline of software engineers entering the job market. Today's lifeboat badge winner is Abdul Saboor , who answered the question: Ho...
Jan 26, 2021•16 min•Ep. 309
Joe Biden just wants to ride his Peleton, but equipment connected to WiFi with a camera and microphone can pose a real security risk . If you've got a chicken coop or greenhouse that needs a little warmth this winter, maybe team it up with your gaming PC or bitcoin mining rig , which tend to give off a lot of heat. Speaking of heat, we dive into datacenters that were sunk under the ocean in an effort to create more economically efficient and environmentally friendly computing. Our favorite meme ...
Jan 22, 2021•17 min•Ep. 308
Joocelyn hosts the Git Cute podcast, which you can find here . She's working on a book about seniority in the software industry, which you can pre-order here . You can follow her on Twitter at javavvitch . Our lifeboat badge goes to LMc for explaining how one can: Count the Letter Frequency in a String with Python...
Jan 19, 2021•21 min•Ep. 307
The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives. You can find out more about Vercel , which recently raised a $40 million round , on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future . You can find more info on Next.JS here . It's a very active tag on Stack Overflow with dozens of new questions a day. Our lifeboat badge for th...
Jan 15, 2021•28 min•Ep. 306
How could you not love a team with a bio like this: "We’re a young and dynamic team of messy data-scientists who have failed at being employed on the real market. Our experience in losing data and throwing files away is more than amazing! Over the years, we have managed to get rid of so much important data at home and even at work." Find out how you pay other people to throw your data away here . The New York Times reports on the rising prices of old computers and their parts. Retro-computing is...
Jan 12, 2021•27 min•Ep. 305
The starting point for today's conversation was an argument made by Guillermo Rauch in this blog post . "And each time, your frontend has an opportunity to impress, delight, perform, be accessible and memorable. What's more, frontend is an area of technological and artistic differentiation , while backend becomes increasingly commoditized, turnkey and undifferentiated." Sure, programming in PowerPoint isn't very practical. That doesn't mean it can't be lots of fun, and teach you a few things. Sp...
Jan 08, 2021•21 min•Ep. 304
If you're interested in learning a bit of BBC Basic, there is a fun introduction here . You can tweet at this bot , and it will run the contents as code and reply with a video of the results. If you are interested in life-logging and want to see it done with a lot of very pretty graphs, check out this post, My Year in Data . Last but not least we chat about Svelte , which lets you create "cybernetically enhanced web apps." Shout to Murali, a listener who suggested this topic. Our lifeboat of the...
Jan 05, 2021•25 min•Ep. 303
You can find the first episode of the SO podcast here . It was conducted over Asterix , open source telephony software that allowed for fancy operations like voice messaging and recording calls! What would social software look like if we designed them to remove commerce and popularity? Are services like Mightybell an interesting example of where we might be headed? If you want to build a model of something - say traffic patterns in your town or a hypothetical zombie invasion - you should check o...
Jan 01, 2021•37 min•Ep. 302
There is a nice breakdown of the Solarigate attack here , but the most important thing to know is that just seeing the words BusinessLayer.dll is enough to make our eyes glaze over and our defenses go down. One interesting second order effect of this intrusion is that it will be difficult to know when all malicious code and access has really been removed. It brought to mind the classic Turing Award Lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson. If you're trying to entertain kids over th...
Dec 29, 2020•25 min•Ep. 301
With Bitcoin hitting all time highs, there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen next in the market crypto market. Meanwhile, regulators are targeting Ripple with a lawsuit and arguing that crypto isn't really a currency after all. You have until Jan, 4, 2021 to participate in our annual Winter Bash . By answering questions on Stack Overflow and across Stack Exchange, you can unlock some unique digital flair for your avatar. Don't forget to tune in the first day of the new year fo...
Dec 25, 2020•14 min•Ep. 300
There is a lot to think about when designing trading algorithms , especially in the world of cryptocurrency, where prices can be extremely volatile and limited liquidity means a single trader moving big volume can have a hefty influence on price. Bitcoin is at a record breaking price these days, but investing in it is not for the faint of heart. To learn more, we chat with Li, who is a software engineer at Coinbase. You can find her on Twitter here . If you're interested in learning more about B...
Dec 22, 2020•17 min•Ep. 299
You can read more about Javascriptlandia here . It is part of larger conversation happening on Google's Open Source Blog and through initiatives like Github allowing corporations into their Sponsors program. For a delightfully old school and interactive website about Myles, click here . For his Twitter, go here . You can find Jory's website here and her Twitter presence here . This week's lifeboat badge goes to Marijn van Vliet for answering the question: How do I return a char array from a func...
Dec 18, 2020•32 min•Ep. 298
You can find the original tweet here . AWS will work with them on publicity and open source their version so that there can be a flow of value in both directions. You can learn more about Tim's company, Checkly.hq , which works on active monitoring for developers. The team there also works on Headless Recorder, a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script. They also operate The Headless Dev , which helps coders learn Playwright and Pupp...
Dec 15, 2020•29 min•Ep. 297
