You can learn more about OverflowAI and sign up to be an alpha tester here . You can check out Ellen and Jody on Linkedin. Congrats to Ben Lindsay , who was awarded a Lifeboat badge for his answer to: How can I divide each element in a tuple by a single integer? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He’s currently a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. Looking for a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python? The Python Developer’s Guide is the place to start. The Zen of Python is a list of the language’s guiding principles, including, “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.” Find Pablo on LinkedIn , Twitter , and GitHub . Find Kyle, a senior software engin...
Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He splits this work 50/50 with his day job as a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. An astrophysicist by training, he did his PhD on rotating black holes . Whether you’re a new contributor or a seasoned veteran, the Python Developer’s Guide is a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python. Pablo is on LinkedIn , Twitter , and GitHub . Kyle is also on Linked , Twitter , and GitHub . Shouto...
DoIT ’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to use the cloud, free of charge, with the big cloud providers paying the bills. You can check out Sascha’s writing on machine learning on his Medium blog . Connect with him on LinkedIn or subscribe to his YouTube channel . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Cat’s research centers on the socio-cognitive factors and processes that help people learn and succeed. In her role as director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab , she studies what makes software teams thrive and shares that research with the community so teams can learn from her findings. In a recent report , the Dev Success Lab explored how visibility can encourage higher-performing teams and better business outcomes. Pluralsight is an education platform for software developers. Plur...
ICYMI, listen to our episode with Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith: The meeting that changed how we build software (Ep. 579) . Explore Connell’s website or his talks . Connell will be speaking at DDD East Midlands again this year: October 7, 2023 (with apologies to our British listeners for the date format). He’s also on GitHub , Twitter , and Stack Overflow (naturally). Thanks to Connell for answering his own question: Why does this SelectMany perform several SQL queries instead of a single join? . ...
Netlify ’s all-in-one development platform gives devs access to build, deploy, and backend services for websites and web apps. Get started with their docs . Jamstack is a web development architecture based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup (the JAM in Jamstack). Learn what Jamstack is and what benefits it offers. Composable architecture has been called “ the next big thing ” in web development. Netlify defines it as “a development approach [that] provides the ability to more rapidly build technolo...
VerseProp is a digital real estate platform where users can buy, sell, and rent virtual properties. New to the concept of digital real estate? The Motley Fool has a useful primer for you. If you need to brush up on your investment terms, a supercycle is “a sustained period of expansion, usually driven by robust growth in demand for products and services.” Joel is on LinkedIn . Will is on LinkedIn . Follow VerseProp on Twitter , where the team welcomes questions. Today’s Lifeboat badge is awarded...
Our 2023 Developer Survey explored AI’s benefits for developers. Read about the results here . For more WWDC talk, listen to our episode from last month: Chatting with Apple at WWDC: Macros in Swift and the new visionOS (Ep. 578) . Squarespace is acquiring Google Domains. Congratulations to Bruno Brant , who won a Lifeboat badge for answering Where can I view LINQ source code? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...
While he’s been the dean of the School of Computer Science since 2019, Martial started his career at Carnegie Mellon University way back in 1984. Ben covered LIDAR inventor Velodyne while at the Verge , while Martial has LIDAR’s ancestor, the laser rangefinder , which was state of the art in 1986. Martial’s area of research is in computer vision and perception for autonomous systems. Since 1985, he’s been a part of 388 publications . Congrats to Lifeboat winner mx0 for their answer to the questi...
Software might not be top of mind when you think of an energy company like Shell, but software engineering powers a lot of what they do. The tech stack includes React, Golang, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and the list goes on. The experience their developers have at work is a priority for the organization and its leaders. Episode notes: Find out why others have joined Shell . If you want to experience what being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies looks like, they’re h...
Adam is the cofounder and former CTO of Chef , which provides DevOps automation tools that help configure, deploy, and manage application infrastructure, including security and compliance. Adam’s new venture, System Initiative , reimagines infrastructure-as-code as collaborative, open-source software. See what they’re up to on their blog , starting with Adam’s article DevOps without papercuts . If you’re interested in playing with a developer build of System Initiative, submit your information h...
Sofy is a no-code test automation platform for mobile apps. SofySense is their OpenAI-powered AI assistant. See what they’re up to on their blog or check out their open roles . One of the biggest challenges in testing is deciding whether to use mock or live data . Interested in reading about how Stack Overflow is building up our test coverage ? Syed is on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Todd A. Jacobs for interceding between the question How can I check whether a string is an intege...
CodiumAI plugs into your IDE and suggests meaningful test suites as you code. See what they’re up to on their blog or scope out their open roles . You can also follow them on Twitter . Connect with Kyle on Linked , Twitter , or GitHub . Connect with Itamar on LinkedIn . Today’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to Héctor M. for answering Convert a string to a Boolean in C# . Thanks for spreading some knowledge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1...
Interested in trying Duet? You can get on the waitlist here . You can learn more about tuning and deploying your own version of Google’s foundation models in their Generative AI studio . If tuning your own model sounds overwhelming, you can head to Model Garden , where a wide selection of open-source and third-party models are available to try. Marcos is on LinkedIn . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jim is a pioneering software developer who was one of 17 original signatories to the Agile Manifesto . His first engineering job was on a little NASA program you may have heard of: Project Apollo . His latest book is Wild West to Agile: Adventures in software development evolution and revolution ; get your copy here . Find Jim on LinkedIn or his website . Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is nCod3d for answering How can I find how many useful digits are in any given a number N? . Thanks for spreadin...
Our guests today are Christopher Thielen , product manager for languages and frameworks at Apple, and Josh Shaffer , a Senior Director of Software at Apple with a focus on Swift frameworks. We discuss the introduction of Swift Macros , improving widgets with App Intents , and some of the new paradigms for crafting apps in visionOS . If you want to get the full picture of all the updates Apple announced for software developers, you can watch this year’s State of the Union or dive into particulars...
MosaicML is a platform for training and deploying large AI models at scale. Explore their docs , check out their blog , and keep an eye on their open roles . Jonathan Frankle is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML and an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. Abhinav Venigalla is the NLP Architect at MosaicML. Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is singmotor for rescuing How to remove columns with too many missing values in Python from the dustbin of history. See Privacy Policy at ht...
Rebuy is an AI-powered personalization platform. Check out their developer hub , explore case studies , or keep up with their blog . Cameron is a PhD student in computer science and member of the OptimaLab at Rice University. Autonomous agents are AI-powered programs that can create tasks for themselves in response to a given objective. They “can create tasks for themselves, complete tasks, create new tasks, reprioritize their task list, complete the new top task, and loop until their objective ...
Joonko is an automated diversity recruiting layer named for Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei , the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. You can learn about their talent pool , keep up with their blog , or check out their open positions . ICYMI, read our blog post about how the recent tech layoffs have had a disproportionate impact on women, people of color, and immigrants. Connect with Ilit on LinkedIn . This week’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to pppery for their answer to Why u...
Angular is an open-source web framework used by millions of developers. Explore the Angular community . Miško is currently CTO at Builder , an API-driven, drag-and-drop headless CMS with a visual editor. Explore their docs or see what they’re up to on their blog . Builder’s full-stack web framework is Qwik , which just reached 1.0 . Let Miško walk you through why Hydration is Pure Overhead . ICYMI, listen to our episode with Builder CEO Steve Stewell. Connect with Miško on LinkedIn , Twitter , o...
Pierre-Étienne’s interest in computing began with the functional programming language OCaml , created by Xavier Leroy . Before OCaml, Pierre-Étienne explains, “everyone thought functional programming was doomed to be extremely slow.” Pijul is a free, open-source distributed version control system. You can get started here . Want a GitHub-like interface? Find it here . Read the article that led to this conversation: Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use . Pierre-Étienne is ...
While Mauricio and team had to get back to bare metal, most programmers are headed in the opposite direction. It’s why MIT switched from Scheme to Python . At Stack Overflow, we’re familiar with what happens to websites during physical failures, like hurricanes . Connect with Mauricio on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner The Nail , who pinned a solid answer on the question, if->return vs. if->else efficiency . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...
Visit Dagna’s website, theMindfulDev.com , to learn more about her coaching process , which is built around understanding what fulfillment looks like for each client. Dagna is on LinkedIn . You can also connect with Ceora on Twitter or her website . Ryan is also on Twitter , especially when there’s a good AI joke to be shared. Gold star for Lifeboat badge winner JasonHorsleyTech for rescuing the question Installing PHP 7.3 on a new MacBook Pro with the new A1 chip (Apple silicon) . See Privacy P...
Simon is the founder and longtime project lead of OWASP ZAP , an integrated penetration testing tool that helps uncover vulnerabilities in web apps, including compromised authentication, sensitive data exposure, and SQL injection. ZAP is OWASP ’s most active project and the world’s most popular web app scanner. Check out other OWASP projects here or explore ZAP’s docs . Check out our blog post on how you can mitigate the ten most-found OWASP vulnerabilities in Stack Overflow C++ snippets. Jit , ...
Learn more about Forrest on his website and check out his newsletter . You can follow Paige on Twitter or her LinkedIn . Get on the list to try out some of the new stuff released today here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Cloudflare offers zero-trust security and performance tools for web and SaaS apps. Cloudflare Workers allows devs to deploy serverless code globally to over 285 data centers around the world. Astro is an open-source web framework built for speed. Houston is a bot that lets you chat with their docs. Check out Confbrew , a conference session Q&A bot from Markprompt and Contenda (where Cassidy is CTO). Connect with Brendan on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter . Connect with Michael on Twitter ....
Luca currently heads up product at Humanitec , a platform orchestrator that provides self-service “ golden paths ” for developers. Get up to speed (or refresh your memory) on what platform engineering involves and what an internal developer platform is . Dynamic configuration management (DCM) is a methodology for configuring compute workloads. Stop by the Platform Engineering Slack channel . Hear from top DevOps and platform engineering leaders at PlatformCon 2023 , a virtual event held June 8-9...
Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?). Episode notes: Getty Images is suing the company behind AI art generator Stable Diffusion for copyright infringement, accusing the company of copying 12 million images without permission or compensation to train its AI model. Meanwhile, a ...
Olin College of Engineering has one of the top-ranked undergrad engineering programs in the US. Its computing curriculum is a concentration within the engineering major, not a standalone major. The upshot is a liberal arts-informed course of study with fewer math and theory requirements than a typical CS degree and a greater emphasis on practical, job-ready skills like code quality, testing, and documentation. To learn more about how software design is taught at Olin, explore the course . Andrew...
