
We chat with Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, about the future of AI-assisted content creation. The post Podcast 365: Fake your own voice with AI, podcasting has never been easier appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/10/podcast-365-andrew-mason-descript-ai-machine-learning/

“In their first few years on the job, engineers spend roughly 30% of their workday writing, while engineers in middle management write for 50% to 70% of their day; those in senior management reportedly spend over 70% and as much as 95% of their day writing.” - Jon Leydens The post How writing can advance your career as a developer appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/09/how-writing-can-advance-your-career-as-a-developer/

After two decades of crafting code, even solo developers need good comments to understand what they wrote in the first place. The post The Overflow #84 and 85: How Dwarf Fortress is built appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/the-overflow-84-and-85-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

From Oracle to AWS to MongoDB, Mark Porter has played a pivotal role in the history and development of software databases. The post Podcast 364: What’s the blast radius when your database goes down? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/

We learned a lot from the more than 80,000 respondents who took the time to answer our questionnaire. The post Podcast 363: Highlights from our 2021 Developer Survey appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/03/podcast-363-highlights-from-our-2021-developer-survey/

It's a big day at Stack Overflow! Our Prosus deal has closed and our latest Dev Survey is live. The post Communities are a catalyst for technology development appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/02/q3-2021-ceo-blog-post-communities-catalyst/

Our data reveals some fascinating trends in education, remote work, and web frameworks. The post The 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is here! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/02/2021-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results/

We dig into discrete mathematics, differential privacy, and homomorphic encryption. The post Podcast 632: Exploring the cutting edge of privacy and encryption with Very Good Security appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Here's a brief recap of what we accomplished in Q2, along with details on our Q3 plans. The post The Loop: Our Community & Public Platform Roadmap for Q3 2021 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/29/the-loop-our-community-public-platform-roadmap-for-q3-2021/

Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories, mythologies, and artifacts. I reached out to him to see how he’s managed a single, growing codebase over 15+ years, the perils of pathing, and debugging dead cats. Our conversation below has