From punch cards to prompts: a history of how software got better

Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, joins Ryan to explore the development of Python as a data science tool, the evolution of these foundational libraries, and the importance of community and

Stack Overflow, born on the bare metal racks of a data center, ascends to the cloud. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/28/moving-the-public-stack-overflow-sites-to-the-cloud-part-1/

Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and software engineer at Vercel, joins Ryan on the show to dive into the evolution and future of web frameworks. They discuss the birth and growth of Svelte during the r

Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning model

The most effective learning doesn’t happen in a classroom. It happens during work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/25/making-continuous-learning-work-at-work/

Ryan welcomes Nathan Michael, CTO at Shield AI, to discuss what AI looks like in defense technologies, both technically and ethically. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/22/robots-in-the-skies-and-the

User research for the next era of Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/21/research-roadmap-update-august-2025/