An emotional week, and the way forward
This episode was recorded Thursday, May 9th, two days after Stack Overflow announced it was going to furlough 15% of its staff. We talk about how this process played out internally and the ways in whi...
15 Touko 202022min
.Net and DevAroundTheSun - We're doing an episode live!
In addition to her role as PM's on Microsoft's .NEt team, Claire is an Executive Director of the .NET Foundation. Jeff, meanwhile, is a Twitch Partner, technical educator and founder of @theLiveCoders...
12 Touko 202031min
Contact Tracing and Civil Liberties: Part 2
Sham Kakade is a professor of computer science, statistics, and data science at the University of Washington. A group from his university, along with volunteers from Microsoft, is creating a contact t...
8 Touko 202022min
Contact Tracing Calibration: Balancing Civil Liberties with Fighting the Pandemic
You can read more about Sham's app, Covid Safe, here. You can find his university bio here.The app isn't live in the iOS or Android app store yet, but you can download an Android demo here and help t...
5 Touko 202028min
Make it So
What happens when the grizzled captain decides they need to stop delegating and put their hands back on the helm? Sara is rewatching Star Trek and trying to find some wisdom in Picard's approach to cr...
1 Touko 202026min
Mastering the Mainframe
JJ came to our attention when we saw a tweet about his work to get an ETL pipeline with COBOL running on Kubernetes. Elizabeth comes from the world of Linux Systems Administration, but more recently h...
28 Huhti 202031min
Jokes on Us
In this episode, we pay our respects to John Conway, a legendary mathematician known for the Game of Life and Surreal Numbers. Our math Stack Exchange paid respects to some of his lesser known results...
24 Huhti 202017min
So, what's it like being a developer at Stack Overflow?
Jon is the team lead for Public Q&A, which is what we call the platform that hosts the 172 community sites across Stack. Adam is a senior software developer on the community team and a former communit...
21 Huhti 202023min
