

The Stack Overflow Podcast
The Stack Overflow Podcast
For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a software developer and how the art and practice of programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, join the Stack home team for conversations with fascinating guests to help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed.
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Mar 13, 2017 • 1h 11min
Stack Overflow Podcast #104 - Jenn Schiffer Talks to Us about Fog Creek's New Glitch
On this week's episode, Jenn Schiffer - aka jennmoneydollars - talks to us about joining Fog Creek as the company's new Community Engineer. She'll be focused on their brand new community, Glitch, which launched today. The gang also listens to Joel rant a lot about a shack he owns.

Mar 6, 2017 • 4min
Maybe It's Maebeline
The gang tries to give tech support to Grandma Maebeline. It doesn't go well.

Mar 6, 2017 • 52min
Stack Overflow Podcast #103 - Grandma, Is That You?
In this week's episode, Mazin Gilbert - VP of AT&T Labs Advanced Technology - joins us. The gang talks about the Amazon S3 outage as well as about an AI that's learned how to copy/paste code, just like a real developer! Finally, Joel provides tech support to Grandma Maebeline.

Feb 27, 2017 • 47min
Stack Overflow Podcast #102: What Can We Learn from Uber?
In this week's episode (with only a brief IT interlude), the gang talks about the Dell XPS-13, Macbook Pro touch bars, and ugh, Uber… And our special guest this week is Erica Brescia, co-founder and COO at Bitnami. She speaks to us about her passion for dev tools as well as the challenges of being a predominantly remote company (something that Stack Overflow knows a little bit about).

Feb 20, 2017 • 2min
Episode 101 Special Segment - Stump Alex Miller
This week, Nick Craver wasn't available. So we decided to Stump Alex Miller. Will he win a fantastic prize?

Feb 20, 2017 • 1h 4min
Stack Overflow Podcast #101 - Matt Mullenweg on Open Source, Blogs, and Beyoncé
In this week's episode, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress joins us to tell us how he built the organization that powers 27% of the internet and more importantly, what it was like going to the same high school as Beyoncé. The gang also tells us why the site nav changed colors. We also learn what programming languages are used on the weekends most and what programming languages college students use the most. Finally, Joel tries to Stump Alex Miller while the TSA watches.

Jan 30, 2017 • 1h 11min
Stack Overflow Podcast #100 - Jeff Atwood is back! (for today…)
Calling our guest today 'special' would be an understatement. He's the co-founder of Stack Overflow (and this podcast), founder of Discourse, prolific writer and blogger at codinghorror.com, and most importantly, the subject of many internal Stack Overflow memes. It's @codinghorror himself, Mr Jeff Atwood! Jeff and Joel chat about where we came from and where we are going, including clips from past podcasts. If you care at all about SO history, then this episode is a must-listen.

Jan 23, 2017 • 1h 1min
Stack Overflow Podcast #99 - The Requested Operation Requires Elevation
In this week's episode, Joel complains about Excel on Mac, the hosts play Start Up or Shut Up, and surprise! The One Minute Tech Review is NOT about light switches. And Stack Overflow's own Dr. Julia Silge comes by to tell her Developer Story.

Jan 16, 2017 • 1h 1min
Stack Overflow Podcast #98 - Scott Hanselman Is Better Than Us at Everything
On this week's episode, Joel rants about travel for the first time ever, Jay explains the Developer Survey (launched last week), and the hosts ponder the reason for Connecticut's existence. Also, our friend Scott Hanselman tells us what we should be doing.

Dec 19, 2016 • 58min
Stack Overflow Podcast #97 - Where did you get that hat?!
On this week's episode, the gang talks about their favorite hats... for Winter Bash 2016! Developer Dan Luu comes by to tell Joel why he's wrong, and Joel talks about awful airports.