Two words for ya: networked spreadsheets
Dave Winer wrote a fun piece on the lost apps of the 80s. We explore the paradox of software that is "too good" to become popular among mainstream consumers. Microsoft has been releasing new versions ...
13 Apr 202124min
For Twilio's CIO, every internal developer is a customer
You can find Michelle on Twitter here.You can learn more about building apps with Twilio here.Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to TryingToLearn for explaining the error that pops up in Python when:...
9 Apr 202121min
Web programming with nothing but Python
Lots of people who work outside of programming learn Python as part of their job. When folks from telecom, academia, or medical science want to build a web app to help with their job or share their fi...
6 Apr 202132min
What does being a "nerd" even mean these days?
Despite its reputation, there is a Go To for every language. You can dive deeper with the Summer of Go To.There is a lot you can learn from it as a beginner, even if it is worth avoiding as a professi...
2 Apr 202125min
How we keep Stack Overflow's codebase clean and modern
You can find Roberta on Twitter. For anyone who understands Portuguese, you can also check out her podcast. Check out Roberta's recent blog post on best practices, and when to ignore them.If you're in...
30 Mar 202122min
We chat with Slack developers about building apps, APIs, and open source communities
Shay is a developer advocate building open source tools and writing education content. Outside of work she writes poetry, indulges fad hobbies, and reads whatever’s left out on the coffee table. Steve...
26 Mar 202124min
A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands
You can find out more about Suyog and his career here. True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing.He's on Twitter here. You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of ser...
23 Mar 202130min
Dev, meet Ops. Ops, meet Dev.
You can check out more of Tom's work and some of his books on his website, Everything SysAdmin. Tom also wrote a great blog post for our site that explains his method for crafting a positive feedback ...
19 Mar 202125min
