The Stack Overflow Podcast - Saving the world with speed and at scale

The Speed & Scale Plan is a global initiative to move leaders to act on the climate crisis, tracking progress towards net zero by 2050. 

Explore Speed & Scale’s resources for combating climate change, and connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and X.  

Congratulations to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó who won the badge for answering the question What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - “AI has been the wild west”: Creating standards for agents with Sean Falconer

Confluent is an all-in-one, real-time platform that allows you to stream, connect, process, and govern your data.

Connect with Sean on Linkedin, and listen to the Software Engineering Daily podcast, where he co-hosts.

Do you know the answer to Loadrunner lr_get_attrib_string always returns null? If so, you can help out Trncvs and receive the bounty offered on the question.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How your favorite movie is changing language learning technology

Koel Labs uses classic movies to help learners master pronunciation. You can join the waitlist for their closed beta launch now. Check out their open-source community project for Koel Labs on GitHub.

Check out their project on the Mozilla Builders site. 

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Shoutout to Populous badge winner Tomáš Záluský, who won the badge for answering the question How to chain multiple assertThat statement in AssertJ.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - There is no golden path anymore: Engineering practices are being rewritten

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, and Loïc Houssier, CTO at Superhuman, dive into how engineering teams can navigate paradigm shifts in a world of constant technological change. They discuss the importance of leadership in an ever-shifting industry and highlight the concept of aligned autonomy as a way to empower teams and increase organizational velocity.

The conversation also covers:

  • The impact of AI on workflows and practices across the entire organization at Superhuman, including improving onboarding, helping employees streamline their work, and enabling teams to tackle projects that were previously put on hold.
  • The strategic use of qualitative and quantitative engineering performance metrics to measure and improve team effectiveness.

Episode notes:

  • Connect with Loïc Houssier on LinkedIn.
  • Learn more about Superhuman, the leading AI-native email app for high-performing teams.
  • Connect with Ben Matthews on LinkedIn or Bluesky.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Programming problems that seem easy, but aren’t, featuring Jon Skeet

Jon Skeet, for those not in the know, is legendary here at Stack Overflow. He even got his own Chuck Norris Facts-style jokes

Jon has graced the podcast before in the early days on episodes 4, 72, and 123.

He’s so good at answering Stack Overflow questions that he appeared at Stack Overflow’s old NYC office and answered them in person

While he’s not the only million rep user, he was the first, so we ran the numbers on him

Have a question? Jon Skeet has probably answered it on Stack Overflow. You can also find him on Blue Sky.

Looking for C# 3.5? Spoiler alert: you won’t find it. Learn why from Jon’s very helpful question What are the correct version numbers for C#?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - You’ve got 99 problems but data shouldn’t be one

Tobiko Data is creating a new standard in data transformation with their Cloud and SQL integrations. You can keep up with their work by joining their Slack community.

Connect with Toby on LinkedIn.

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Congrats to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó, whose answer to What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim? was saved by over 100 users.