• How to train your dream machine
    May 21 2024

    Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs.

    Galileo’s Hallucination Index is a ranking and evaluation framework for LLM hallucinations (it includes a blooper reel).

    Connect with Vikram on LinkedIn.

    Stack Overflow user Petr Janeček won a Lifeboat badge for answering Null array to empty list, a question that’s helped more than 47,000 other curious folks.

    Are you a software developer? Take Stack Overflow’s annual survey about how you learn and level up, which tools you’re using, and which ones you want most. You can check out the results of previous surveys here.

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    33 mins
  • OverflowAI and the holy grail of search
    May 17 2024

    OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access to essential team knowledge.

    Read about why OverflowAI is a big step toward integrating GenAI offerings into knowledge communities and dig into what’s launching and why it’s valuable.

    Connect with Ash on LinkedIn.

    Big props to Stack Overflow user Jennifer M., who earned both a Great Question badge and a Famous Question badge by wondering How to combine the sequence of objects in jq into one object?.

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    32 mins
  • Spreading the gospel of Python
    May 14 2024

    Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here.

    His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art.

    Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center, which offers free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Learn how to apply here.

    PyCon US 2024 is May 15-23, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Connect with Al through his website.

    Shoutout to user Alex. S., who asked Stack Overflow’s most popular Python question ever: What does the "yield" keyword do in Python?. It’s helped 3.3 million people and counting.

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    25 mins
  • Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD
    May 10 2024

    Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here.

    Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them track and remember information. Read Eira’s article on what second brains reveal about how we work.

    A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web “framework” around: VanillaJS. Listen to the episode.

    Chris offers classes and workshops for front-end developers, plus daily advice for developers with ADHD.

    Connect with Chris through his website or social media.

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    29 mins
  • Reshaping the future of API platforms
    May 7 2024

    Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub.

    We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf

    Connect with Marco on LinkedIn.

    Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React.

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    26 mins
  • The reverse mullett model of software engineering
    May 3 2024

    If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do.

    Check out the results of our last job market survey.

    Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn.

    Shoutout to stevenkucera, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton?.

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    23 mins
  • Net neutrality is in; TikTok and noncompetes are out
    Apr 30 2024

    In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements, a staple of the tech industry for years.

    Learn how a 2017 tax law is haunting startups in 2024.

    Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki exposed tens of thousands of confidential psychiatric records and tried to extort payment directly from the affected patients. Read more about it here or here.

    It happened: President Biden signed the TikTok “ban,” setting a deadline for the platform’s parent company, China-based ByteDance, to divest the app within a year. And TikTok faces yet more hurdles ahead.

    Net neutrality is back, baby. Here’s what that means.

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    19 mins
  • Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050
    Apr 26 2024

    SQLite is the most used database engine in the world.

    Stop by the forum or explore the docs.

    Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050.

    The developer with a team of three, all of them himself at different points in time, was Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame.

    On Stack Overflow, 1.2 million people have found the answer to How can I list the tables in a SQLite database file that was opened with ATTACH?.

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    29 mins