Jaime Torrealba, a frontend developer currently at Push Security, joins Ryan to talk about 3D graphics and web development. Their conversation ranges from the evolution of technologies like WebGL and WebGPU to the importance of performance optimization for different devices to th … | Continue reading
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap. | Continue reading
Ryan is joined by Fynn Glover (CEO) and Ben Papillon (CTO), cofounders of Schematic, for a conversation about managing feature flags in software development. They explore theoretical and practical applications of feature flags, the issue of tech debt, and how orgs could manage en … | Continue reading
The first release of the year is packed with features to make your knowledge-sharing community better. | Continue reading
New year, new approach. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan are joined by RJ Tuit, Head of UI Platform and Client Architect at ClickUp, formerly an engineering director at Microsoft. They talk about ClickUp’s vision for a comprehensive productivity platform, the complexities of measuring productivity and UX in software develo … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce our 16th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations. | Continue reading
John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the latest trends in internet usage highlighted in Cloudflare's 2024 Year in Review report. | Continue reading
Is anyone designing software where failures don't have consequences? | Continue reading
Kyle welcomes Wes Copeland, a senior frontend engineer at Apartment Advisor, to the interview. They talk about how good test coverage helps you develop software faster, the benefits of low-fidelity prototypes, and why he prefers to avoid vibes-driven development. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk with Geoffrey (Jef) Huck, a software developer turned public speaking coach, about the importance of soft skills in the tech industry—in particular, speaking and communication skills. Their conversation touches on how Huck’s experiences with anxiety shaped his e … | Continue reading
Ryan talks with Sterling Chin, a senior developer advocate at Postman, about the intersection of APIs and AI. They cover the emergence of AI APIs, the importance of quality APIs for AI integrations, and the evolving role of GraphQL in this new landscape. Sterling explains how som … | Continue reading
In this episode, Ben and Ryan sit down with Inbal Shani, Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D at Twilio. They talk about how Twilio is incorporating AI into its offerings, the enormous importance of data quality in achieving high-quality responses from AI, the challenges of inte … | Continue reading
Have an idea? Turn it into a prototype first. | Continue reading
Bottom line: let React do the React things. | Continue reading
Happy New Year! In this episode, Ryan talks with Jetify founder and CEO Daniel Loreto, a former engineering lead at Google and Twitter, about what AI applications have in common with Google Search. They also discuss the challenges inherent in developing AI systems, why a data-dri … | Continue reading
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs. | Continue reading
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code. | Continue reading
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. | Continue reading
Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security? | Continue reading
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. | Continue reading
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost. | Continue reading
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing). | Continue reading
A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked. | Continue reading
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. | Continue reading
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. | Continue reading
Computer science deals with concurrency, but what about simultaneity? | Continue reading
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)? | Continue reading
It's time to delegate to the robots. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan catch up with Nenne Adaora “Adora” Nwodo, who recently joined Stack Overflow as a platform engineering manager. From her childhood fascination with computers to her years as a software engineer at Microsoft, Adora shares her evolution as a technologist. She tells Ben … | Continue reading
Mark Doble, CEO of Alexi, an AI-powered litigation platform, joins Ben to talk about GenAI’s transformative effect on the legal world. Their conversation touches on the importance of ensuring accurate results and eliminating hallucinations when AI tools are used for legal work, h … | Continue reading
Dan Parsons, co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at Thoughtful AI, talks about how his company is using AI to simplify how providers get paid by insurance companies. | Continue reading
The complex relationship of give-and-take in the knowledge journey is untangled in the results from the latest Stack Overflow Knows survey. | Continue reading
This release introduces the ability to automatically and programmatically demote an inactive Subject Matter Expert (SME) to ensure a healthy roster of contributing experts. | Continue reading
The home team is joined by Kinnaird McQuaid, founder and CTO of NightVision, which offers developer-friendly API and web app security testing. Kinnaird talks about his path from school-age hacker to white-hat security expert, why it’s important to build security practices into th … | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk all things mobile app development with Kenny Johnston, Chief Product Officer at Instabug. They explore what’s unique about mobile observability, how AI tools can reduce developer toil, and why user experience matters so much for app quality. | Continue reading
Wondering how to go about creating an LLM that understands your custom data? Start here. | Continue reading
Ben talks with Eran Yahav, a former researcher on IBM Watson who’s now the CTO and cofounder of AI coding company Tabnine. Ben and Eran talk about the intersection of software development and AI, the evolution of program synthesis, and Eran’s path from IBM research to startup CTO … | Continue reading
Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti, who spent many years as a technical writer for Splunk and New Relic, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the evolving role of documentation in software development. They explore how documentation can (and should) be integrated with code, the impo … | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan sit down with public interest technologist Sukhi Gulati Gilbert, a senior product manager at Consumer Reports, for a conversation about digital data privacy. They talk about why digital privacy matters, the challenges consumers face in safeguarding their data, and th … | Continue reading
Most job interviews are stressful. This one is not. | Continue reading
Web2 and Web3 developers don’t always have the kindest view of one another. | Continue reading
Today’s guest is Jonathan Schneider, co-founder and CEO of Moderne and creator of OpenRewrite, an open-source automated refactoring ecosystem for source code built to help developers eliminate tech debt. He tells Ben and Ryan about the challenges of automatic refactoring, how Jav … | Continue reading
Chris Fowler, Director of Engine for Call of Duty, tells Ben and Ryan about his path from marine biology to game development, the ins and outs of game engines, and the technical feats involved in creating massively popular games like Call of Duty. Chris also explains why communit … | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan are joined by Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai, an AI workflow orchestration platform. They talk about how the transformer architecture supplanted convolutional neural networks in AI applications, the infrastructure required for AI implementation, the implica … | Continue reading
It's time to delegate to the robots. | Continue reading
Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, joins Ben and Ryan for a deep-dive conversation about the evolving landscape of web data. They talk through the challenges involved in data collection, the role of synthetic data in training large AI models, and how public data access is becoming … | Continue reading
Will prompt engineering replace the coder’s art or will software engineers who understand code still have a place in future software lifecycles? | Continue reading