The Stack Overflow Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.

You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge, awarded when a user edits and answers 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.

For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. 

Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. 

You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn. 

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: 

How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout

? Nearly 250,000 other people have been curious about this same question.

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 winner Ebrahim Ghasemi for answering What is the structure of an application protocol data unit (APDU) command and response?

CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion trained on Amazon and open-source code that gives you coding suggestions in real time. 

In addition to being general manager for CodeWhisperer, Doug is also the GM for Amazon CodeGuru Security, which uses machine learning to detect security policy violations and vulnerabilities. 

Connect with Doug on LinkedIn.

Asked and answered: user Manodnya B won a Lifeboat badge for answering Cannot find the Start Button under CodeWhisperer in AWS Toolkit.

Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring!)

Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.

Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.

Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.

Kudos to Stack Overflow user Joe Caruso, who won a Great Question badge with Get current time in hours and minutes.

California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going?

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that allows scientists to see how electrons move by mapping their positions in an atom. Learn more here and here.

As Ben says, speaking of things that are difficult to observe and don’t make a lot of sense, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for a historically huge amount of fraud. Follow the live trial blog from Wired or check out their explainer.

Starting next year, Unity is charging developer fees. We explore the back and forth as they try to find a solution that works for the company and the community.

Shoutout to user vasco, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to test abstract class in Java with JUnit?.

If you want to hear more of her work, check out Alexandra’s Instagram. 

She uses Tidal Cycles and Supercollider to make algorithms that get people to dance. 

Interested in algoraves? You may be able to find one near you or run your own. 

Check out Alexandra in her ad for Logitech, then check out her favorite keyboard

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Ben is watching AI Explained, a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications. 

Read Ryan’s article ​​Do large language models know what they are talking about?.

Is language really unique to humans? New research suggests maybe not.

Not for the first time, Ryan recommends the work of Noam Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, an evolutionary account of language acquisition in humans written with Robert C. Berwick.

OverflowAI search is now available for alpha testing. Learn more here.

Good news for your cable clutter: Apple is switching to USB-C charging ports. Here’s when.

The WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike ended with an agreement that “allows for artificial intelligence as a tool, not a replacement,” but the arguments about creativity, copyright, and AI are far from over.

If you’re interested in working with PHP, head over to the PHP Collective and check out conversations like Most useful new PHP features for version 8?.

pgnanalyze helps users deliver consistent PostgreSQL performance and availability at any scale. Get started with a free trial or explore their docs. You can also find them on YouTube, where Lukas posts a weekly show called 5mins of Postgres.

Lukas was a founding engineer of Citus Data. Citus is an open-source extension to PostgreSQL that was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Find them on GitHub.

If you’re new to the topic, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language for querying databases, introduced in the 1970s. 

Find Lukas on LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub.

Check out Luyang’s work at his website or in this Youtube playlist. 

To make these animations, Luyang uses Processing, a 20-year-old language that started out as a visual way to teach programming but evolved into a professional development tool. 

Logitech selected Luyang as one of the ambassadors to show off what you can do with their MX Keys S Combo. 

Shout out to George Profenza for dropping a top answer on Position of a vector in coordinate system (Processing/p5.js).