Probability, cryptography, and naïveté

Probability and cryptography have this in common: really smart people can be confidently wrong about both. I wrote years ago about how striking it was to see two senior professors arguing over an undergraduate probability exercise. As I commented in that post, “Professors might forget how to do a calculus

The Good, the Bad, and the Disruptive: Let us know where you stand in the 2024 Annual Developer Survey

This year we are asking familiar questions about your experience, but also have some new questions about what embedded programming technology you are using and what AI ethical responsibilities are most important to you.

Chris’ Corner: Stand Alones

It continues to be a big year for Web Components. I’m noticing it more this week as it’s effecting some of my friends. My long-time ShopTalk co-host Dave Rupert just got a job at Microsoft working on Fluent UI Web Components. Probably didn’t hurt that he wrote the book on

Thinking by playing around

Richard Feynman’s Nobel Prize winning discoveries in quantum electrodynamics were partly inspired by his randomly observing a spinning dinner plate one day in the cafeteria. Paul Feyerabend said regarding science discovery, “The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes” (within relevant ethical constraints, of course). Ideas can

How to become a prompt engineer: Skills & career path guide

Looking to make a career change to working on artificial intelligence (AI), but intimidated by coding? The new field of prompt engineering is an excellent path to explore. As someone reading this guide, you’re probably a tech enthusiast taking a smart step by exploring how to adapt to the new

OverflowAI and the holy grail of search

Product manager Ash Zade joins the home team to talk about the journey to OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that’s available now. Ash describes how his team built Enhanced Search, the problems they set out to solve, how they ensured data quality and accuracy, the role

How To Create A Product Landing Page Using HTML

How to Deploy Apache Airflow on Vultr Using Anaconda

Learn how to deploy an Airflow app in a Conda environment and secure the app using Nginx and request SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt. Continue reading How to Deploy Apache Airflow on Vultr Using Anaconda on SitePoint.

OverflowAI is now Generally Available! A new era of community-driven AI

We're excited to announce the general availability of OverflowAI to Stack Overflow for Teams! OverflowAI represents a big step forward in our vision of integrating GenAI offerings within knowledge communities.

Spreading the gospel of Python

On this episode: Al Sweigart is a software developer, developer advocate, and author of ten Python books. He tells Ben and Ryan why he’s such a fan of the language, why it’s a great programming language for beginners, and how it became the default for so many data science and