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**The Stack Overflow Podcast**

For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ceora Ford, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things code.

Latest Episodes:

Cleaning up build systems and gathering computer history with Adam Gordon Bell Dec 11, 2020

Show notes

As promised, here is the grass hat.

You can find out more about Earthly here.

We spend a little time talking about Nix OS the operating system you can roll back if you don't like a patch.

Raise your hand if you remember learning computer science with Turbo Pascal.

Maybe you didn't know, but discs aren't as slow as people think. Adam's recent episode is about upending common assumptions on IO performance.

Shoutout to our Lifeboat badge winner of the week, Josh Smift, for answering the question: How to delete *.web files only if they exist.

Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt Dec 08, 2020

Show notes

You can read about GraphQL here and Apollo here.

Cassidy Williams, who curates our newsletter, wrote about her experience as an early adopter of the technology last summer.

You can find more on Meteor here.

Schmidt also helped create Monument, which he describes as "an affordable live/work art event space in downtown San Francisco. The upstairs is 24 private bedrooms and studio spaces and the downstairs is a 200+ capacity person event venue and makerspace. Our goal is to connect creative people across different fields, and in particular build bridges between art and technology."

Goodbye to Flash, we'll see you in Rust Dec 04, 2020

Show notes

Gone in a Flash. Actually it took quite a while. Adobe explains its decision to stop supporting Flash here.

You can learn more about Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust, here.

Here are some tips on writing a developer resume from a hiring manager who's written an entire book on the topic.

You can read more about the Supreme Court case considering the limits of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act here and here

Our Lifeboat badge of the week goes to a user named simply 4386427, who answered the most basic and frustrating question: why does “printf” not work?

Why developers are increasingly demanding ethics in tech Dec 01, 2020

Show notes

You can find more about Resner here.

Learn more about the topics we discussed by following some of Resner's suggested links below:

People to follow on Twitter: Safyia Noble, Ruha Benjamin, and Kamal Sinclair.

Ellen Pao and Project Include.

Eli Pariser and New Public by Civic Signals.

Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments Nov 27, 2020

Show notes

You can read more about the operating systems and business principles schools are adopting from their corporate sponsors here.

You can read about the latest version of Tailwind and what it has to offer here.

React, Vue, jQuery: what flavor do you like your Vanilla JS? Nov 24, 2020

Show notes

You can find Ferdinandi's post and video here.

12 years ago, back when Stack Overflow was a brand new site with just a few thousand users, someone asked a basic question: What is the difference between a framework and a library?

FreeCodeCamp has its own take on this question with a pretty interesting answer. "When you use a library, you are in charge of the flow of the application. You are choosing when and where to call the library. When you use a framework, the framework is in charge of the flow. It provides some places for you to plug in your code, but it calls the code you plugged in as needed."

There was no Lifeboat badge to call out this week, so we honored a Lifejacket winner instead. Shout out to Andreas for answering the queston: Are byte arrays initialised to zero in Java?

Tim Berners Lee wants to put you in a pod, a web pod. Nov 20, 2020

Show notes

You can find out more about Sir Berners-Lee's work on Solid here.