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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On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.
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Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a new social science focused on the socioeconomic changes driven by data. You can read an excerpt from Data Rules on our blog here. Explore more of Dr. Kallinikos’s work. Shoutout to Lifeboat badge win…
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The problem with the tech debt mindset
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Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’” Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.” Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I. Tech…
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Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024
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You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon. Got questions about Java? Check out the site. Apache Groovy is a Java programming language. Virtual Threads reduce the effort put into writing and maintaining code as well as observing high-throughput concurrent applications. Apache Shiro is an open-source security f…
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The framework helping devs build LLM apps
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LlamaIndex is a data framework for building LLM applications. Check out the open-source framework or get started with the developer community, LlamaHub. Looking for a deeper understanding of RAG? Start with our guide. Wondering how to import `SimpleDirectoryReader` from LlamaIndex? This question has you covered. Jerry Chen is a partner at Greylock.…
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Learn more about Staging Ground on our blog or in the help center. Find Kyle on LinkedIn, GitHub, and Twitter. Spevacus is a full stack developer and Stack Overflow moderator. They’re a participant in Charcoal, a user-run group that fights spam and rude/abusive content across the Stack Exchange network.…
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Stack Overflow and Elastic are collaborating to improve the search experience using vector search and generative AI. Learn more about the new AI features for Stack Overflow for Teams, including Enhanced Search. Learn more about the Elastic platform, including vector search. Developers can start building here. Connect with Paul, Steffi, and Gregor o…
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What can devs do about code review anxiety?
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Carol is an applied clinical and intervention scientist: she develops and tests cognitive, behavioral, and social interventions that activate key mechanisms to elicit change. Learn more about understanding and mitigating code review anxiety (the full version of her article is here). You can also check out the code review anxiety workbook. Pluralsig…
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Still thinking about developer happiness and productivity? Read Eira’s article about the real 10x developers among us. Connect with Ben Borra through his website or LinkedIn. Asked and answered: Stack Overflow user Jian earned a Great Question badge with How do I close a frozen SSH session?.Av Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Ben Borra
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How to build open source apps in a highly regulated industry
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Before Medplum, Reshma founded and exited two startups in the healthcare space – MedXT (managing medical images online acquired by Box) and Droplet (at-home diagnostics company acquired by Ro). Reshma has a B.S. in computer science and a Masters of Engineering from MIT. You can learn more about Medplum here and check out their Github, which has ove…
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A very special 5-year-anniversary edition of the Stack Overflow podcast!
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Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists. Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps? Ben and Cassidy remember…
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Say goodbye to "junior" engineering roles
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How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the tasks and output. If a pull request attached to a Jira ticket is evaluate…
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Making ETL pipelines a thing of the past
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RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake, meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, security, and governance hassle that would come with porting their data to a new cloud provider. The company promises it can also add metadata and a knowledge graph to existing data without pushing it throug…
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The world’s most popular web framework is going AI native
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Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next.JS. For the second goal, you can see what Vercel is up to with its v0 project, which lets developers use text prompts and images to generate code. Third, the Vercel AI SDK, which aims to to help developers …
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A peek behind the curtain with Stack Overflow’s sales engineers
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You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site. If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn. The same goes for Alexa. A shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahozad for earning a LifeBoat badge with their answer to the question: How can I add Jetpack Compose & xml in the same activity?…
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This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests
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You can learn more about Squire AI here Connect with Patel on his LinkedIn Congrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,000 people with a similar question by asking: How to disable source maps for React JS Application?Av Stack Overflow
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How to prevent your new chatbot from giving away company secrets
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You can find Narayan on LinkedIn. Learn more about SnapLogic here. Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge by showing some curiosity and asking: How do I deal with garbage collection logs in Java? This question has been viewed over 175,000 times and helped lots of folks gain some new knowledge :)…
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Can software startups that need $$$ avoid venture captial?
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You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X. Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality. As he writes on his website, the book: Draws on 19 months of participant-observation research to examine how investors’ demand for rapid growth created organizational problems …
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Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or software failure it can seamlessly migrate execution to another machine. Learn how it works or dive into the docs. Temporal’s SaaS offering is Temporal Cloud. Replay is a three-day conference focused …
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Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?
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Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation. Connect with Robin on LinkedIn, Twitter, or via his website. Shoutout to user2651084, who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I reset the Jupyter/IPython input prompt numbering?.Av Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Robin Gupta
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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 …
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OverflowAI and the holy grail of search
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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 t…
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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 …
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Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD
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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. Lis…
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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.Av Marco Palladino, Ryan Donovan
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The reverse mullett model of software engineering
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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?.Av Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Patrick Carlile
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Net neutrality is in; TikTok and noncompetes are out
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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. …
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Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050
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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 l…
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Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT. Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI. Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR. Do LLMs support Wit…
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Why can’t configuration be made simple? Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. Texas is swapping human graders for AI. Automattic (owner of WordPress) is acquiring Beeper for $125M. Silicon Valley or not, San Francisco’s train system still uses floppy disks. But don’t worry, an upgrade is coming—in 2030. Shouto…
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If everyone is building AI, why aren't more projects in production?
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Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today. Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center. Learn more about Google’s Gemini models. Shout out to thitemple for their Lifeboat-worthy answer to In TypeScript, how do I declare a function that returns a string type array?.…
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How do you evaluate an LLM? Try an LLM.
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Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user1083266, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database.Av Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Michael Geden
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ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams. Read more about the cyberattack here. Apple’s new LLM, Ferret, could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Apple’s digital assistant. …
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Learn more about the potential of AI inference with OpenVINO Notebooks. Check out the previous podcast with Intel, where we talk with Raymond Lo about how hardware and software work together with AI. Connect with Ria on LinkedIn or GitHub. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Kevin, who showed what they know about TypeError; Must use key word argument…
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Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk.
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A developer discovered a backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility. Read more about the cyberattack here. A Microsoft technical report pinpoints 54 attributes of great software engineers. A new report from The Economist lays out how AI is changing drug development. Are you sick of hearing about AI? What topics or technologies would …
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What a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow
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You can find Jessica on LinkedIn. We've published several posts, including this most recent one, about our attempt to shape an ethical approach to combining our community of knowledge and today's AI systems. Check out this blog post that details some of the work we did to build our data platform. Congrats to macfij on your lifeboat badge for answer…
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Are long context windows the end of RAG?
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DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks, reportedly outperforms GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. Recent research found that large, complex LLMs use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge in response to a user prompt. These mechanisms can help researchers reveal what the model knows and potentially even corre…
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Will antitrust suits benefit developers?
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Small nations like Anguilla (.ai) and Tuvalu (.tv) are benefiting from their coveted domain names. The US government is suing Apple for violation of antitrust laws, which could have a huge impact on devs, end users, and the whole ecosystem. Reddit went public last week despite not being profitable since its launch in 2005. How can you give feedback…
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Controlling cloud costs: Where to start, and where to go from there
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To learn more about the signs that indicate you may be paying more for your cloud computing that you should, check out DoIT’s seven red flags guide. We’ve spoken with DoiT on the podcast before about LLM hallucinations and the security threats that LLMs open. DoiT’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to…
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Data, data everywhere and not a stop to think
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Cribl is a data management platform. Check out their sandbox or explore their products. Cribl Stream is their vendor-agnostic observability pipeline. If you’re new to the term, the observability pipeline is a crucial component of the cloud-native world. Connect with Nick on LinkedIn. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 03:23 The Data Landsca…
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GitClear is a developer-friendly code review tool that aims to deliver higher developer satisfaction and faster releases. Check out their blog or find them on GitHub. GitClear’s research focuses on how AI code-gen tools have impacted code quality (and not in a good way). Find Bill on LinkedIn. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:30 Background of the Res…
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Why the creator of Node.js® created a new JavaScript runtime
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Node.js® is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment. Deno is an open-source JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Explore the quick start or check out Deno by example, a collection of annotated examples of how to use Deno. JSR is an open-source package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript. Keep up to date with Ryan on GitHub or h…
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Your whole repo fits in the context window
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AI shops are now releasing LLMs optimized for RAG. Turn a repo into a prompt for a long-context LLM. Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and discovery tool. Good news for developers: Apple will not remove progressive web app support on iOS in the EU. Basil Bourque earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to get full name of month from date in Ja…
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How Stack Overflow is partnering with Google to encourage socially responsible AI
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Stack Overflow has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop an API—Overflow API—to give Gemini, Google’s AI model, access to Stack Overflow knowledge communities. Learn how Ryan’s team is working toward socially responsible AI. Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user verygoodsoftwarenotvirus earned a Great Question badge by asking somethin…
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A leading ML educator on what you need to know about LLMs
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Check out Maxime’s three-part LLM course. Part 1 “covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks. Part 2 “focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques." Part 3 “focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.” Read Maxime’s blog. Follow Maxime on GitHub or LinkedIn. Nikhil Wagh ear…
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Building GenAI features in practice with Intuit Mailchimp
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Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. If you want to try out generative AI in MailChimp, sign up here. Learn more about Intuit technology here. Many thanks (and a Lifeboat badge) to Dherik for dropping an answer on cURL: how can I return 0 if status is 200? Connect with Shivang on LinkedIn.…
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Chunking express: An expert breaks down how to build your RAG system
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Build GenAI applications faster and cheaper with a vector database like Pinecone. New to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other GenAI topics? Our guide is a good place to start. Learn more about RAG and Pinecone. Connect with Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn.Av Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Roie Schwaber-Cohen
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It’s RAG time for LLMs that need a source of truth
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Pinecone is a vector database that lets companies build GenAI applications faster for less cost. Read our primer on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or explore RAG and Pinecone. Follow Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn. If you need a handy guide to what’s what in the AI space, check out Stack Overflow’s Industry Guide to AI.…
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Optimizing both hardware and software for GenAI
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SPONSORED BY INTEL Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. Bonus: what’s the difference between a GPU optimized for graphics and a VPU or NPU optimized for AI? Episode notes If …
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How to convince your CTO it's worth paying down tech debt
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Sema’s AI code monitor helps companies manage the risks and capture the benefits of AI in the software development lifecycle. Learn how it works here. Connect with Matt on LinkedIn. Erstwhile podcast cohost Cassidy Williams is the CTO of Contenda. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jim, who earned a Stellar Question badge with Docker cannot start on W…
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Down the rabbit hole in the Stack Exchange network
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Discussions are now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow. Check out this one about why people keep proclaiming the death of PHP or this one on whether Jenkins is still the dominant player in the CI/CD space. What would happen if you suddenly lost consciousness? The Philosophy Stack Exchange has thoughts. Did knights wear glasses? Historic…
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