Best The Stack Overflow Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi 26:51

2h ago26:51

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You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here. You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mob…

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#166 - Don't Be a Junior Developer 19:01

2h ago19:01

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Send us a text Let me be clear: junior developers are necessary. They are also risky to hire. Let's explore the economics of hiring juniors, how to de-risk yourself and what the hell "junior" really means. Also - here's my email if you want any targeted advice: [email protected] Include your Github and LinkedIn and I'll give you my 3 cents! PS. We h…

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Crafting a Stop Motion Video Game with Onat Hekimoglu

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Harold Halibut is a 2024 narrative adventure video game developed by German developer Slow Bros. The game has a distinct look owing to its use of stop motion animation with 3D scans of physical sets and puppets. Onat Hekimoglu worked on Harold Halibut as the Director, Game Designer, Composer, and Person of Many Hats. He joins the podcast with Joe N…

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Why Stack Overflow Uses Svelte with Giamir Buoncristiani 45:07

1d ago45:07

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Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners. Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity. Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks d…

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217: One Language Server to Rule Them All 19:24

1h ago19:24

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News includes the announcement of an official Elixir Language Server team, the release of Oban v2.18.1 featuring automatic transaction retries with backoff, a new macro-inspired video from German Velasco, the upcoming "Elixir Patterns" book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna, the forthcoming CodeBEAM Lite conference in NYC, and more! Show Notes onlin…

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How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner

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The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, o…

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Our Biggest Projects: How We Became Developers 1:30:37

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This week Matt and Mike took a trip down memory lane to discuss, debate, and reflect on some of their biggest projects that shaped their careers as web developers. As with many tech careers, the road to becoming a web developer is anything but straightforward. In the case of Matt and Mike, their planned IT startup took a hard right turn based on th…

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Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases? 24:38

2h ago24:38

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For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn. Congrats to …

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#165 - Risk, Reward, and Reinvention: How Aaron Turned a Bootcamp Bet into a Career in Big tech 1:02:41

3h ago1:02:41

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Send us a Text Message. Aaron went from rapper to New York City Transit worker to working at some of the largest names in tech including Coinbase, Docker and Meta (Facebook). This story isn't really about tech or money, but that's a piece of it. The real story is about refusing to settle, rising above your circumstances and creating options in life…

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From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved 26:24

4d ago26:24

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You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn. Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?…

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#164 - AI, the End of Front End Developers, and Jeff Bezos: What the 2024 Stack Overflow Survey Tells Us 26:11

5d ago26:11

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Send us a Text Message. The problem with the tech advice you get on LinkedIn, X and TikTok is that it doesn't reflect reality. The loudest voices dominate the space and create an echo chamber. Luckily, Stack Overflow surveys tens of thousands of developers every year to find out: - what professional developers REALLY think about AI taking their job…

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Containers at the Edge with David Aronchick

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Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance. David Aronchick is th…

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Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford

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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his career …

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216: Ecto Soft Deletions Masterclass 23:48

3h ago23:48

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News includes a new video from José Valim demonstrating Livebook deployments, Chris McCord's "Pawsitively" project integrating content moderation with Livebook, the release of Zigler 0.13.1, a new AI-centric library called Honeycomb by Sean Moriarity and Andrés Alejos, an Elixir job listing at Apple, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thi…

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Developer Productivity with Damien Filiatrault

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Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path, a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins t…

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Is Vanilla Tech Just for Juniors? Exploring the Role of HTML, CSS, and JS in 2024 1:19:30

2h ago1:19:30

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It's often said that in order to become a junior developer, you should learn the three foundational pillars of web development before moving onto a framework, plugin, or other specialty. These pillars are of course: HTML (for site structure), CSS (for page styling), and JS (for advanced UI interactivity) - we refer to them as vanilla tech. Way back…

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Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0 26:51

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If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno. You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page. To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page …

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#163 - Just Your Typical 44 Year Old Musician Turned Software Developer. Nils Reveals the Fast(er) Path To Tech 35:16

1h ago35:16

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Send us a Text Message. Parsity grad Nils decided to change careers at 44 from professor of music to software engineer. His story may not seem typical but in many ways it follows the same pattern that has worked for other career changers: - He worked on real world projects in exchange for credibility. - He was open to hybrid opportunities. - He wen…

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Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce 30:52

8d ago30:52

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You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here. You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths." As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solvi…

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#162 - 3 things about software I learned from a career as a criminal 15:10

2h ago15:10

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Send us a Text Message. 15 years ago I made money by trading various substances for cash. I was hooked on drugs, alcohol and living like a loser. It took 3 near death experiences, 2 children, 1 intervention and too many sleepless nights to count before I changed my ways. The transition from criminal addict to nerdy software engineer was tough and t…

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GemFire with Ivan Novick

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Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading…

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Modern Frontend Engineering with Stefan Li

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In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern brow…

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Developers Hate Technical Debt | Stack Overflow Survey 2024 55:18

4h ago55:18

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In this episode, Matt and Mike dive deep into the results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024, uncovering the latest trends, technologies, and tools shaping the programming world. From the most popular programming languages and frameworks to the evolving work environments and career satisfaction of developers, the guys break down the data t…

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215: Bob gets busy and Google's in trouble 23:40

23h ago23:40

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News includes a new video by German Velasco explaining quote and unquote in Elixir macros, updates on the Hex.pm “Bob” project for pre-built Elixir and Erlang binaries, Sonic Pi sponsorships and support from Dashbit, the release of ElixirLS v0.23.0, and Google's recent antitrust ruling. We also cover new developments with the Error Tracker library,…

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AI Research at Capital One with Bayan Bruss

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A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as “unseen” data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of AI Foundations at Capital One and …

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Scaling systems to manage the data about the data 22:45

4d ago22:45

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Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coalesce We previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down Congrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving…

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#161 - Oops, Did I Do That? Alex Lau and Brian Share Their Biggest Mistakes (and lessons) as Software Developers 30:12

16d ago30:12

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Send us a Text Message. I used to hate admitting my mistakes when I was a more junior developer. Over the years, I've made some embarrassing blunders. I've thought I was going to be fired a dozen times. You can not avoid making mistakes as a software developer. It's part of the learning process. There are a few common problems most developers will …

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How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible 28:04

18d ago28:04

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Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible. We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure color contrast using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA). We quantified the accessibility of our products using the Axe accessibility te…

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DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen

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DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It’s designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to ta…

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#160 - No, You Don’t Need a Bootcamp or Degree to Become a Software Developer 23:03

22d ago23:03

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Send us a Text Message. Should I even be telling you this? I mean I own a coding bootcamp. The reality is that you don't need a degree OR a coding bootcamp to be a hire-able developer but there's a reason why the majority of software engineers have some formal education. Let's go over a plan for you to learn the basics of web development on your ow…

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Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt

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Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed r…

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The Right Way to Code: Navigating Ethics in Web Development 1:33:51

16d ago1:33:51

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Today, we're diving deep into the vital topic of navigating ethics in web development. As developers, we face numerous decisions that fall under the umbrella of ethical practice, from ensuring digital privacy and user consent to integrating accessibility features and prioritizing data security. We'll explore how ethical considerations influence our…

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214: Stack Overflow Results 33:02

7d ago33:02

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News includes the latest Stack Overflow survey highlighting Elixir and Phoenix as highly admired technologies, a Reddit discussion on what makes Phoenix and Elixir so revered, the release of Lexical LSP 0.7.0, and Gleam v1.4.0-rc1 available for testing. Additionally, there's a spotlight on a new library called LiveScript for local script developmen…

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Chroma’s Vector Database with Anton Troynikov

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Chroma is an open-source AI application database. Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma. He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent. Sean’s been …

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Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results 23:48

7d ago23:48

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Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey. A few highlights to get you started: most popular technologies, most admired and desired programming languages, feelings about/use of AI coding tools, and what we know about the global developer community. Speaking of our developer community, Stack Overflow user Frank earned …

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#159 - Why Pessimists Fail at Coding: How New Coders Can Build Optimism, Practically 17:08

9d ago17:08

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Send us a Text Message. Pessimists are often right. Optimists are often successful. When you're doing something new like learning to code, you don't have any "proof" that you will be good at it. Your brain wants to find patterns to protect you from an uncertain future. You scroll IG, YouTube or LinkedIn and are inundated with horror stories which a…

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How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet 28:09

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Cortex is an internal developer portal that cuts noise and helps devs build and continuously improve software. Explore their docs or see what’s happening on their blog. Cortex is also hiring, so if you’re an engineer who wants to work on these kinds of problems, check out their careers page. Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or X. Ganesh is also on Li…

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#158 - Beyond Coding: The Essential Skills Every New Developer Needs 18:13

15d ago18:13

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Send us a Text Message. Learning to code isn't enough. 10 years ago, being able to write some HTML, CSS, Jquery and JavaScript could land you a job. Honestly, you can still make money just knowing these basics. But, if you want career where you work on interesting problems and are highly compensated, there are 3 skills you're going to need which we…

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The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader

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In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved. It wasn’…

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Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee

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Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process. Hound…

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213: Can Mnesia remember using CRDTs? 26:11

14d ago26:11

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News includes Chris McCord's speedrun video on adding a self-hosted llama2-7b to an existing application, Tyler Young's release of parameterized_test v0.2.0, major updates in Oban Pro's new launch week, potential for CRDTs being added to Mnesia DB, Zach Daniel's blog post on Igniter for code generation, and a preview of ElixirConf 2024 with excitin…

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