Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more “Welcome, Prashanth!”
What’s new?
The next CEO of Stack Overflow
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more “The next CEO of Stack Overflow”
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more “Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams”
Strange and maddening rules
There’s this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more “Strange and maddening rules”
Reading lists
Over the last 16 years I’ve written 1114 articles on this site about software development, management, business, and the Internet. To make it easy to find the best ones, here are some reading lists, sorted by topic.
Top 10
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- Fire And Motion
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- How Microsoft Lost the API War
- The Perils of JavaSchools
- The Development Abstraction Layer