Hypergrowth headaches
Like a lot of good tools, Backstage started as a way to stop using a spreadsheet. They knew it was something worth open-sourcing when conference attendees paid more attention to the tool than the topi...
16 Sep 202228min
What science says about achieving the flow state
Show notesIf you’re interested in diving deeper into Professor Fritz’s research on developer flow states, check out his list of publications. Flow states can be affected by things as simple as the rig...
14 Sep 202227min
Hackathons and free pizza: All about Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program
As part of an effort to work with students at college and universities, Stack Overflow is partnering with Major League Hacking (MLH) to recruit our first cohort of Student Ambassadors. These folks wil...
13 Sep 202222min
Plug-and-play AI for your own projects
AssemblyAI is an AI-as-a-service provider focused on speech-to-text and text analysis. Their mission is to make it easy for developers and product teams to incorporate state-of-the-art AI technology i...
9 Sep 202227min
Flow state at your fingertips - how keyboards impact developer productivity
For those not familiar with the MX series, you can read more about the different versions, including the mechanical one, here.If you don't know about Cassidy's passion for keyboards, you can check out...
8 Sep 202224min
Does AI-assisted coding make it too easy for student to cheat on schoolwork?
You can find a great essay on AI helping students, and what that means for their teachers, here.Here's a piece on W4 Games plans to monetize the Godot engine.Snap says it now has one million subscribe...
6 Sep 202220min
Environments on-demand
ReleaseHub provides on-demand environments for development, staging, and production. Every developer knows that environments can be a bottleneck, so ReleaseHub’s mission is to empower developers to sh...
2 Sep 202230min
What companies lose when they track worker productivity
What do companies want to gain through monitoring software—and what do they, and their employees, stand to lose? Read more.In Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport ma...
30 Aug 202226min
