I just received a Stack Overflow announcement email which concluded with this section: Learn about the history of curl Daniel Stenberg, the creator of curl, recently stopped by Stack Overfl... | Continue reading
By now, everyone who is semi-literate regarding technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Stack Overflow directly links to profile pictures from Facebook, | Continue reading
By now, everyone who is semi-literate regarding technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Stack Overflow directly links to profile pictures from Facebook, | Continue reading
I recently noticed rather unusual pattern in some question titles: these start with word "say", followed by what I would call a real title, in quotation marks.After noticing pair of such question... | Continue reading
Please be more careful when interpreting SO Developer dataThese types of surveys are interesting and useful, but each year I find myself pulling my hair out at poor analyses by the press and inte... | Continue reading
I'm really happy to announce that the Ask Question Wizard is now live on Stack Overflow! This is the end of a long arc of experiments that have been happening for over a year to provide structured | Continue reading
Before the developer survey, I was invited to test it, and promised a $5 gift card from a web shop for taking part.Recently, I've received this gift card on my personal e-mail. But to my dislike,... | Continue reading
Stack Overflow turns 10 years old today. In the world of Internet startups, that's a pretty big deal — most assumed we would have flopped or gotten ourselves acquired by now. Many of us have ... | Continue reading
Stack Overflow pagination uses page numbers instead of offsets, which points to some kind of LIMIT and OFFSET query. For 10 million questions, skipping to the last page should be really slow, but S... | Continue reading
The Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change. blog post says: But how do we really know that too many developers experience Stack Overflow as an unwelcoming or hostile p... | Continue reading
The Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming blog post says: Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in | Continue reading