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From startup to Google and back again Aug 01, 2023

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Sean hosts Partially Redacted, a podcast about data privacy, security, and compliance.

He also hosts the podcast Software Engineering Daily, which features technical interviews on everything from the ethics of GPTs to cloud-native search and WebAssembly. Start with the recent episode Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki (of Survivor fame).

You can also read about how he crowdsourced a behavioral model for Survivor.

Sean spent four years working in developer relations (DevRel) at Google. Here’s a Software Engineering Daily episode about the role DevRel plays at Google.

Connect with Sean on LinkedIn or Twitter (I mean, X), or check out his website.

Kudos to Great Question badge winner Kai Sellgren for asking How to remove an element from a vector given the element?.

Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI Jul 28, 2023

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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?

How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future Jul 25, 2023

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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 engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform, on Linked, Twitter, and GitHub.

What it's like to be on the Python Steering Council Jul 21, 2023

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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.

Shoutout to Inquisitive Badge winner trever for asking well-received questions on 30 separate days.

How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations Jul 19, 2023

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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

How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects Jul 18, 2023

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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. Pluralsight Flow, their software delivery intelligence platform, is designed to eliminate developer friction and wasted time.

Cat is on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is Kent Kostelac, who gave a terrific answer to One-line if-else in C#.

How terrifying is giving a conference talk? Jul 14, 2023

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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?.

Jamstack is evolving toward a composable web Jul 11, 2023

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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 technology stacks by making use of logically separated reusable and customizable components.”

Dana is on LinkedIn.

Warm congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hasectic saif, who rescued the question How can I print to standard error in C with 'printf'? from an answerless void.

From Sims to supercycle? Jul 07, 2023

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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 to Omar, for helping 44,000 people and counting with their answer to Event handlers on Message box buttons.