Joel Spolsky
@spolsky
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co-founder of Fog Creek, Trello, Stack Overflow, Glitch, and - I have moved to @spolsky @blackrock .city on mastodon
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New blog post: Kinda a big announcement
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"During peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim."
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It's been about ten years since
@codinghorror
and I started building
@StackOverflow
so I decided to write a series of blog posts in retrospective! The first one is live here:
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"You Suck at Excel" (video, 54m) in which I try to teach my team a bare minimum of non-incompetence at spreadsheets
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Sorry Apple. After 10 years loyalty, this latest MBPro with useless touchbar and unreliable keyboard was last straw. Switched to Dell XPS13👋
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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.
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President Trump’s executive order on immigration is extremely upsetting. It is immoral, unconstitutional, and fundamentally Un-American.
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you know I'm gay right?
It's
#NationalComingOutDay
! Come out as gay. Come out as trans. Come out as supporting equality. We need your voices now.
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Microsoft replaced an in-house Q&A system with Stack Overflow for Teams, and went from 900 to 70,000 employees using it. In a couple of years they have built up a knowledge base of 80,000 answered questions!
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literally just got pitched by thiel's investment firm if they can invest in trello. 😂 Nice fund you got there hope nothing happens to it
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40 pages about software engineering, hiring developers and technical leadership. Free PDF!
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Stack Overflow Documentation is live! This is the biggest thing since the original Stack Overflow.
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Making the web better. With blocks!
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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.
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Today’s new thing is called Stack Overflow for Teams. It lets you set up a private place on Stack Overflow where you can ask questions that will only be visible to members of your team, company, or organization.
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I seem to be the last person in the tech world who believes developers should have private offices.
http://t.co/pD7PC70UbT
by
@df07
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The real reason support for the EU is collapsing is that Europeans are exhausted from all those idiotic "this site uses cookies" pop ups 🇪🇺
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Every team should have a a private version of Stack Overflow for questions about your own code base. Now, it's free for the first 50 users.
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If you’re a developer working for software company, does that company own what you do in your spare time?
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"Paste the error msg into Google…crossing your fingers in hopes that a website called Stack Overflow will come up"
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I wish everybody would read this thing about Hungarian variable naming conventions again
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Stack Overflow's entire data set is freely available, and now you can query it using Google's BigQuery.
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Also. After a few weeks with the "touchbar", it is worse than the function keys it replaced in every respect. worst apple purchase ever
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My answer to whether Stack Overflow should sport a rainbow logo for the day
http://t.co/MtqdnsjloJ
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Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump is unconscionable and abhorant. Thank you
@msuster
for explaining it so well
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For the first time ever, I'm not a part of the Trello team 😢 Good bye and good luck!
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now you know why experienced developers are really conservative about technology choices
http://t.co/FhFUaCQ6rL
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Hey! Stack Overflow is now 100% on https, after tons of work. The epic blog post by
@Nick_Craver
is here:
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Let's all agree. Next time someone asks you to send a fax, tell them "I work in tech, you know they're shutting that down end of this year"
'Could you fax over a copy?'
'No, I can't fax because of where I live'
'Where do you live?'
'The 21st century'
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50 free ebooks generated from StackOverflow topics:
http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/ebooks/
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Thanks and congratulations to
@codinghorror
, my cofounder,
@pchandrasekar
, the CEO, hundreds of current and ex-employees who helped build
@StackOverflow
, and literally millions of developers who have shared their knowledge freely and made programming a little bit better
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When you are in some app and you want to make a PDF file, why do you go to the Print menu? Shouldn't that be under Save As?
kthx I'll let myself out
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My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. But I did write a blog post.
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I'm excited to announce that Prashanth Chandrasekar is taking over as CEO of Stack Overflow. Welcome aboard,
@pchandrasekar
!
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If everything we tried worked out great, we wouldn't be trying bold enough things. 😥 farewell, Stack Overflow Documentation
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seriously it would save so much time if everybody just did things my way in the FIRST PLACE
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If you're not into gay marriage, don't get gay married--but my marriage to Jared isn't hurting you and should be legal everywhere
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Every 10 years or so you might find that the world and tech have changed enough that a new app redesigned from scratch up is a good idea
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My mom's first ACM journal article from 1974. Happy Mother's Day!
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running windows 95 in a dos emulator running in JavaScript in a web browser is blowing my mind right now.
http://t.co/GLp2Xyiznx
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The annual Stack Overflow developer survey is here and it’s huge!
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Sixteen years after launching Joel on Software, it’s now running on WordPress.
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This will be the year I lose 10 pounds! walking around the house looking for the heckin' USB-C adapter
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Apple's personality flaw: every feature they don't have is a horrible idea, but when they finally get it, they INVENTED it and it's amazing
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Every year, Stack Overflow surveys thousands of developers to see how they work, what tools they are using, and how they're feeling on a wide range of topics. The 2019 results are out today!
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Here is a video in which
@sklivvz
describes the architecture of Stack Overflow
http://t.co/ZV6ge7jA0K
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congratulations!
@trello
FTW! whoooo
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HASH is a free, online platform for assembling models of the world.
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"In the interest of deflecting a million questions about what I’m doing nowadays, thought I’d update my long-suffering readers here."
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Are kids these days still writing text field validators? And getting them wrong? time for some abstractions.
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yeah let's just go ahead and implement a digital clock using Conway's Game of Life
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Anybody who thinks "The Office" invented cringe comedy needs to watch Fawlty Towers
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been playing this ^%$@! game for six months now and I can't figure out how to get "2048"
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Fog Creek Software is now Glitch -- after 18 years, it's time to move forward!
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We made a really cool video about Stack Overflow with Microsoft. It's just 2 minutes check it out!
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looks like Ballmer finally figured out how to make Microsoft stock go up.
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LinkedIn has become a great source of CVs which is nice, but the "social network" they built is just a septic tank 😐
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"If even one person on the team is remote, every single person has to start communicating online."
http://t.co/RtHJ71yfD4
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This parrot drone has disobeyed all three laws of robotics in its short five minute lifespan
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Hey everyone! It’s time our annual developer survey—the world’s largest and most comprehensive!
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, writing bug tracker after bug tracker
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DID YOU KNOW you can run database queries against the Stack Overflow database? (tutorial: )
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I can't believe I wrote that. I've met many wonderful testers since then who love being great testers and take pride in their work.
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Best practices for implementing "forgot password" feature securely:
http://t.co/PUQwPtQH
(thanks
@dpthanki
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Glitch, the simply app development tool that came out of Fog Creek Software, raised a $30m Series A.
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haha, still the best thing that has ever been on stack overflow :-)
http://t.co/aPyPQqolL6
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@robconery
@jonskeet
Your 310 answers on Stack Overflow have helped 341,000 people, probably saving them each about 30 minutes. So let's call that 85 years of time that you've saved thankful developers :) Thanks for your contribution and don't let the idiots get you down
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Today I got email from our thermostat.
You're a thermostat! Get over yourself!
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Yep
Yay, I joined the
@StackOverflow
team one year ago today! This was my cover letter, they said it was almost perfect:
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this game is sooooo addictive
http://t.co/fjwzZBX4LX
- it shows you google street view at some random place, and you have to guess where
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So yeah we made a little slack bot that tracks bugs for you. It's free!
http://t.co/tgqH2tLVaU
http://t.co/iCo7E9A7Gh
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Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!🎉
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