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Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.15.0 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema deserialization, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and security fixes for date validation and route unserialization. The post Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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9 Jun

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.14 adds JsonSchema::fromArray() for turning JSON Schema arrays back into Type objects, queue inheritance fixes, job inspection improvements, and several HTTP client and mail fixes. The post JSON Schema Deserialization in Laravel 13.14 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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5 Jun

Channy Yun (윤석찬) 3 min read

You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippets ready to copy and run.

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3 Jun

Sébastien Stormacq 6 min read

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys for encryption control.

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28 May

Channy Yun (윤석찬) 5 min read

AWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting.

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27 May

Taylor Jacobsen 2 min read

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]

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21 May

Daria Voronina 9 min read

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how software gets built, Kotlin’s growing real-world impact reflects the importance of languages and tools that […]

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Anton Yalyshev 7 min read

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as something that has to be reviewed, approved, and then frozen in production for a while. […]

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20 May

Alina Dolgikh 8 min read

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Developers describe working in Kotlin in a fairly consistent way: more time spent on what you’re trying to build, less time […]

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15 May

Ekaterina Volodko 1 min read

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How well do these tools actually work with Kotlin? We want to better understand how Kotlin developers […]

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13 May

Viliam Sedliak 6 min read

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-based-destructuring=only-syntax compiler argument) and will become Stable in a future release. In the distant future, the behavior of the “val outside parentheses” […]

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7 May

Ksenia Shneyveys 3 min read

In the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, mentors and mentees worked together on real Kotlin open-source projects to make their first meaningful community contribution. Four pairs successfully completed the two-month program, and one eligible pair was randomly selected in the prize drawing to receive the grand prize – a trip to KotlinConf 2026 in Munich! […]

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6 May

Sébastien Stormacq 6 min read

AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents…

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4 May

Viliam Sedliak 4 min read

Hi everyone! April brought exciting community news with the announcement of the Golden Kodee finalists, along with Kotlin and tooling releases, multiplatform progress, and fresh backend resources. I also came across the new Kotlin Professional Certificate on LinkedIn Learning, which is a great way to build your skills. And if you want something more playful, […]

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18 Mar

Kotryna D 2 min read

Hostinger has paid out €11.8 million to employees under its stock option program, allowing them to directly benefit from the company’s growth. “We launched our stock option pro… The post Hostinger shares €11.8 million with employees through stock options appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Matthew Green 12 min read

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but several unusual stories about the encryption used in WhatsApp. Or more accurately, if you read the story, a pretty wild allegation that the widely-used … Continue reading WhatsApp Encryption,…

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9 Dec 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

AWS re:Invent’s biggest serverless launches are already live in Serverless Framework v4, with new runtimes, streaming APIs, tenant isolation, enriched IAM and networking controls, and more - all ready to use today, alongside a livestream deep-dive and a limited-time subscription offer.

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18 Nov 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

Serverless Framework is closing out the year with major updates—new Python support built in, improved reliability during upstream outages, key IAM changes, and upcoming features like OpenTelemetry configuration and expanded variable resolution—while also offering a limited-time 20% end-of-year discount and actively hiring for the Framework team. This post recaps what’s new, what’s coming next, and how to get involved.

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Gediminas G 2 min read

Sell online. Turn your hobby into income. Share your creativity. Build a professional business website. Whatever your goal, this Black Friday is your chance to make it real. Wi… The post Hostinger Black Friday deals 2025 appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Kotryna D 3 min read

Together with tech accelerator Tesonet, we launched a nationwide initiative offering Lithuanian schools free access to two advanced AI tools, nexos.ai and Hostinger Horizons. The … The post Bringing world-class AI tools to Lithuanian schools appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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17 Apr 2025

Erlang Solutions Team 2 min read

Catch up on the latest from Erlang Solutions. This blog round-up covers key tech trends, including big data, digital wallets, IoT security, and more. The post Erlang Solutions’ Blog round-up appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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Serverless Team 1 min read

The Serverless MCP is a powerful debugging tool that brings AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway state and logs directly into your IDE. Eliminate AWS console visits while troubleshooting serverless applications with AI-assisted diagnostics and resource monitoring.

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28 Feb 2025

4 Feb 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

A rich development and deployment experience for deploying containers to AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, without rearchitecting. Serverless Container Framework gives you total flexibility.

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11 Sept 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Full-stack, serverless, boilerplate for AI applications on AWS, featuring Bedrock LLMs like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama3.1, a React front-end, AWS Lambda back-end, built-in CI/CD and more.

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6 Sept 2024

26 Aug 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Serverless Framework 4.2.3 now supports AWS SAM and CloudFormation templates, simplifying AWS Lambda development. Deploy SAM/CF projects seamlessly, use Serverless Variables, and streamline your workflow. Perfect for organizations seeking to consolidate serverless tools and standardize development processes.

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1 Aug 2024

13 Jun 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Discover the power of Serverless Framework V.4! Native TypeScript support, revamped Dev Mode, and seamless integration with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault. Enjoy faster development, enhanced security, and powerful new features like advanced AWS Lambda logging. Get started now via GitHub or npm.

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19 Dec 2022

Joel Spolsky 6 min read

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"

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15 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022

Austen Collins 1 min read

Serverless Console V2 brings real-time spans, requests and responses in Dev Mode, plus enhanced AWS Lambda observability powered by the Telemetry API.

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22 Jun 2022

Richard Grant 1 min read

The on-demand recap of our May 17th community call is now available to stream. We covered how to structure a Serverless Application and we were joined by Purple Technology who shared their serverless story.

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6 Jun 2022

kevin 2 min read

The San Francisco Chronicle charges for subscriptions. How much does a subscription cost? This is an impossible question to answer, even for current subscribers. The Chronicle advertises several different prices for new subscribers. The only public information the Chronicle shares about its permanent subscription rates raises more questions than answers. No one at the Chronicle […]

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Joel Spolsky 4 min read

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"

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Matthieu Napoli 1 min read

Serverless Framework V3 is here with a redesigned CLI experience, stage parameters, cleaner dependencies, and an easier upgrade path from V2.

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14 Dec 2021

Steven Yi 1 min read

Watch the Replay of our December 2021 Community Call! See demos of the latest features in Serverless Framework, Serverless Cloud, and a sneak peek at the upcoming Serverless Console

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7 Dec 2021

2 Dec 2021

Steven Yi 1 min read

A lot of news came out of AWS re:Invent 2021 - get updates from our team on how Serverless Framework, Dashboard, and Cloud are taking advantage of the latest AWS enhancements (like improved SQS batch error handling with AWS Lambda).

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16 Nov 2021

Matthieu Napoli 1 min read

Today, we are very excited to announce the availability of Serverless Framework v3 beta! The 3.0 release, planned for Q1 2022, includes a cleaner and redesigned CLI experience that prioritizes actionable information.

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2 Jun 2021

Joel Spolsky 5 min read

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"

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Austen Collins 1 min read

We're bringing Serverless Components out of beta and introducing several new features to deliver a dramatically improved serverless development experience.

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25 Feb 2020

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Maciej Skierkowski 1 min read

Announcing the general availability of Serverless CI/CD in Serverless Framework Pro, a continuous integration and deployment service you can use for free.

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19 Dec 2019

Kadir Topal 2 min read

The first annual MDN Developer Needs Assessment aims to represent the voices of developers and designers working on the web. We've analyzed the data provided by more than 28,000 completed surveys, and we've identified 28 discrete needs, sorted into 14 different themes. Four of the top ten needs relate to browser compatibility, our #1 theme. Documentation, Testing, Debugging, and Frameworks…

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5 Dec 2019

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"

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24 Sept 2019

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

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!"

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17 Sept 2019

Daniel Conde 1 min read

Deploy Next.js on AWS Lambda@Edge for global, fast server-side rendered react applications, and easily interact with other AWS resources.

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12 Sept 2019

1 Aug 2019

Austen Collins 1 min read

Forget infrastructure. We’re giving you a new option to deploy serverless use-cases easily — without managing complex infrastructure configuration files.

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Gareth McCumskey 1 min read

With the importance of plugins to the Serverless ecosystem, we had to find a way to thank our community and offer our support

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Joel Spolsky 6 min read

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"

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13 Apr 2018

Joel Spolsky 5 min read

I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"

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6 Apr 2018

Joel Spolsky 6 min read

I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way. Read more "The Stack Overflow Age"

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2 Apr 2018

12 Jan 2018

Joel Spolsky 7 min read

My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. Read more "Birdcage liners"

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15 Dec 2016

9 Dec 2016

Joel Spolsky 8 min read

If you’re a developer working for software company, does that company own what you do in your spare time? Read more "Developers’ side projects"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Last week I was invited to Slush in Helsinki, where I gave a keynote called “Developers are Writing the Script for the Future.” Here’s a 20 minute video… Read more "Developers are Writing the Script for the Future"

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Joel Spolsky 3 min read

Sixteen years after launching Joel on Software, it's now running on WordPress. Read more "RIP CityDesk"

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Joel Spolsky 6 min read

One more thing… It’s been awhile since we launched a whole new product at Fog Creek Software (the last one was Trello, and that’s doing pretty well).… Read more "Introducing HyperDev"

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20 Jan 2015

Joel Spolsky 6 min read

Today Stack Exchange is pleased to announce that we have raised $40 million, mostly from Andreessen Horowitz. Everybody wants to know what we’re going to do with… Read more "Stack Exchange Raises $40m"

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24 Jul 2014

Joel Spolsky 6 min read

Hello? is this thing on? I’m not sure if I even know how to operate this “blog” device any more. It’s been a year since my last… Read more "Trello, Inc."

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22 Jul 2013

Joel Spolsky 8 min read

There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes… Read more "Victory Lap for Ask Patents"

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30 Apr 2013

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

Trello has been out for less than two years and it’s been growing like wildfire. We recently hit 1.5 million members, of whom about 1/3 perform some… Read more "Free as in Fortune Cookies"

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2 Apr 2013

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

The fastest growing industry in the US right now, even during this time of slow economic growth, is probably the patent troll protection racket industry. Lawsuits surrounding… Read more "The Patent Protection Racket"

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11 Mar 2013

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features… Read more "Town Car Version Control"

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9 Jul 2012

Joel Spolsky 7 min read

Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with… Read more "Software Inventory"

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17 Apr 2012

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

The folks over at UserVoice are using Trello quite extensively throughout their development process. Founder Richard White describes it all in detail.

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27 Mar 2012

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

My friend Noam Wasserman at Harvard Business School has spent years researching startups. His work is great, because he actually does real, quantitative research on the kinds… Read more "The Founder’s Dilemmas"

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13 Feb 2012

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young ‘incubator twerps’ strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine… Read more "The Management Team"

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13 Jan 2012

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The… Read more "New York City gets a Software Engineering High School"

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6 Jan 2012

Joel Spolsky 8 min read

Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has been very strong,… Read more "How Trello is different"

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15 Sept 2011

Joel Spolsky 9 min read

Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello,… Read more "Should you launch at a conference?"

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13 Sept 2011

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

Around the time of Fog Creek Software’s ten year anniversary, I started thinking that if we want to keep our employees excited and motivated for another ten… Read more "Announcing Trello"

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27 Jun 2011

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

[UPDATE – September 6th – Regrettably, DevDays had to be cancelled. See the announcement on the Stack Exchange Blog for details.] Stack Overflow DevDays, the universe’s best… Read more "Stack Overflow DevDays is Back!"

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24 Jun 2011

26 May 2011

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

The Stack Exchange network is already up to 51 sites on diverse topics, from math to cooking to science fiction. Each site is a community on its own,… Read more "Modern community building"

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9 May 2011

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

We’re working on a series of two-day Stack Overflow conferences for the fall: “What’s this conference about? The idea for the original DevDays was to have high-bandwidth,… Read more "Help us organize the next Stack Overflow conference"

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28 Apr 2011

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

What do you do for lunch every day? Where do you eat it? With whom? I’ve been on teams that eat together every day, and it’s awesome.… Read more "Lunch"

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27 Apr 2011

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Jeff Atwood and I have resumed our weekly podcast, formerly known as the Stack Overflow Podcast, now known as the Stack Exchange Podcast! Here are some ways… Read more "The podcast is back!"

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9 Mar 2011

23 Feb 2011

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

One day, you’ll be telling your grandchildren about getting a programming job, version 1.0. You would send a “resume” to a “recruiter.” It included all kinds of… Read more "Careers 2.0 (by Stack Overflow)"

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11 Feb 2011

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

There’s a surprising amount of misinformation out there about whether software companies own the work that a programmer does in their spare time. From my answer to… Read more "Does your employer own your side projects?"

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3 Feb 2011

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

If you weren’t able to make it to the FogBugz/Kiln world tour, a video of my presentation is up now on YouTube. (If you have a high… Read more "FogBugz/Kiln Demo"

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24 Jan 2011

Joel Spolsky 5 min read

(reposted from the Stack Overflow blog) 2010 was an absolutely amazing year here at Stack Overflow. We grew from 7 million visitors to over 16 million, putting… Read more "Stack Overflow 2010 recap"

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5 Jan 2011

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Due to unexpected demand we’ve been working with the venues for the upcoming FogBugz World Tour 2010 (incorporating DVCS University) to find more room. We already have… Read more "World Tour – last chance"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Area 51 is filling up with thousands of ideas for new Stack Exchange sites, and a pretty clear pattern has started to worry us: too many ridiculously… Read more "Merging Season"

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2 Sept 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

The Stack Overflow Blog: “The Unix world loves to take sides. I don’t have to blog about this; Freud already did, in 1930. He called it ‘the… Read more "Fork it!"

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31 Aug 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

We’ve been opening new Stack Exchanges left and right on a variety of topics. In almost every case, the Stack Exchange appears to duplicate the content of… Read more "A new WordPress Stack Exchange"

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19 Aug 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Sometimes I think a pretty good business model would be to copy the applications that 37signals makes, but make them more complex. More features, more promises—generally, just… Read more "Simplicity vs. Choice"

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16 Jul 2010

12 Jul 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“We decided that individually-branded sites felt more authentic and trustworthy. We thought that letting every Stack Exchange site have its own domain name, visual identity, logo, and… Read more "Domain Names"

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7 Jul 2010

28 Jun 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Neil has posted a video of Don Norman (most famous for his book The Design of Everyday Things) speaking at the Business of Software conference last year… Read more "Don Norman at the Business of Software 2009"

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22 Jun 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Area 51 is now in beta. This is the promised place where the community comes together to invent new Stack Exchange sites. Benofsky from Hacker News writes:… Read more "Area 51 is now in beta"

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9 Jun 2010

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18 May 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

FogBugz 7.3 is a pretty huge release, despite the modest version number. It has a bunch of features that almost everyone will find useful on a daily… Read more "News"

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10 May 2010

4 May 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it.” Announcing the… Read more "News"

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30 Apr 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Dear TechSmith, Thank you very much for all the pictures of your pets: Also thanks for the toys, which were great. I especially like the iPhone. Yours,… Read more "Note from Taco"

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19 Apr 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Since announcing the new plans for Stack Exchange, there’s been a lot of discussion about what kind of new Q&A sites will work best on this platform.… Read more "Sites for experts"

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13 Apr 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Like the small-town mayor who suddenly finds herself running an entire state, our ambitions for Stack Overflow keep growing. Our original idea of making the Internet a… Read more "Stack Exchange 2.0"

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31 Mar 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

The entire extended Stack Overflow team (including the Stack Exchange team) is meeting in New York in April to do some strategic planning. For example, we need… Read more "Stack Overflow Party"

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17 Mar 2010

Joel Spolsky 5 min read

A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast, and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed… Read more "Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby"

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14 Mar 2010

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

At right, a picture of Taco, a ten-week-old siberian husky puppy who moved in with us last week! Some of you may have seen my final column in… Read more "Puppy!"

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18 Feb 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

New StackOverflow developer Kevin Montrose (6,878 reputation) added a neat feature to the career site that makes it a zillion times easier to file a CV if… Read more "Facebook / LinkedIn importers"

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14 Feb 2010

11 Feb 2010

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

In the early days of a technology startup, you tend to have a lot of software developers, and you feel like you could never have enough. If… Read more "Headcount"

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26 Jan 2010

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

My sister got her kids a little puppy, and they’ve been trying to train it. To live with a dog in the house, you need to teach… Read more "Why testers?"

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25 Jan 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Steve Krug has written a follow up to his usability classic Don’t Make Me Think. The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun… Read more "Rocket Surgery Made Easy"

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22 Jan 2010

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“As companies expand, the people within them start to specialize. At such a point, some managers will conclude that they have a ‘keep everyone on the same… Read more "A little less conversation"

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30 Dec 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Microsoft Careers: “If you’re looking for a new role where you’ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve… Read more "Secret language"

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14 Dec 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Is your desktop backed up? Did you backup that server? Are your backups on a different machine? Do you have offsite backups? All good questions, all best… Read more "Let’s stop talking about “backups”"

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13 Dec 2009

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

The higher someone’s Stack Overflow reputation, the more likely they are to have submitted a CV to Stack Overflow Careers: This is not entirely surprising, of course:… Read more "Stack stats"

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9 Dec 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“Like most entrepreneurs, Ryan and I are still learning about how to manage people and teams. And we’re both used to hiring very smart and dedicated people… Read more "When and how to micromanage"

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2 Dec 2009

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

For as long as I’ve been in the industry, which is, I think, about 74 years now, the problem I’ve had with hiring programmers was not interviewing… Read more "Programmer search engine"

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5 Nov 2009

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

Do you like your job? Do you enjoy the people you work with? Would you want to have lunch with them? Every day? Alex Papadimoulis thinks that… Read more "Upgrade your career"

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3 Nov 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

My new Inc. column is up. “For a guy who wrote a book on how to hire great programmers, it’s mortifying how incompetent I’ve been at enlarging… Read more "Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?"

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1 Nov 2009

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She… Read more "Figuring out what your company is all about"

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31 Oct 2009

26 Oct 2009

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

It is amazing how easy it is to sail through a Computer Science degree from a top university without ever learning the basic tools of software developers,… Read more "Capstone projects and time management"

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8 Oct 2009

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

Why does WiFi work so poorly at tech conferences? Marcus GriepI assume that WiFi wasn’t really designed to handle a big ballroom with 2000 people, all trying… Read more "The “WiFi At Conferences” Problem"

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23 Sept 2009

Joel Spolsky 5 min read

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who… Read more "The Duct Tape Programmer"

new developernews

8 Sept 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

This month we’re starting to get organized for StackOverflow DevDays, a series of one-day, mini conferences in ten different cities. Because of the packed schedule, keeping on… Read more "Countdown challenge"

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2 Sept 2009

Joel Spolsky 3 min read

I’m organizing a half-day startup workshop in San Francisco. This would be a terrific event to attend if you’ve recently started a software company and feel dazed,… Read more "Upcoming startup workshop in San Francisco"

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1 Sept 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

At last year’s Business of Software conference, I gave a talk about designing products that are more than just adequate. How do you make a product that… Read more "Being Number One"

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13 Aug 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Red Gate Software has launched a startup incubator in Cambridge. Free office space, internet access, room, board, advice, and pocket money. (I’m one of the people giving… Read more "New startup incubator in Cambridge, England"

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31 Jul 2009

23 Jul 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“Every single industry was going to be turned upside down! New industries would be created! Start-ups would make people rich! Which is really nice, because it’s awesome… Read more "The Day My Industry Died"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Congratulations to Bob Walsh on publishing his Web Startup Success Guide (to which I wrote the foreword). His interview with GTD Guru David Allen, which is chapter 8,… Read more "Web Startup Success Guide"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Brett Kiefer describes Evidence Based Scheduling 2.0 on the FogBugz Blog: “EBS 2.0 gives you the vocabulary of strict dependencies and start dates. You can now say… Read more "EBS 2.0"

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20 Jul 2009

9 Jul 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Mencius Moldbug: “They create an incomplete model of the giant electronic brain in their own, non-giant, non-electronic brains. Of course, since the giant electronic brain is a… Read more "Why Wolfram Alpha fails"

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23 Jun 2009

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

Clear just closed down. Here’s how it worked while it was in business. You paid $200 for a one-year membership. You underwent a big, complicated background check… Read more "The eternal optimism of the Clear mind"

startup foundernews

10 Jun 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Dave Winer (in 2007): “Sometimes developers choose a niche that’s either directly in the path of the vendor, or even worse, on the roadmap of the vendor.… Read more "Platform vendors"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

From my latest Inc. column: “Giant corporations such as Google and Microsoft are like cities full of relatively anonymous people: You don’t actually expect to see anyone… Read more "A visit to Microsoft and Google"

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Joel Spolsky 1 min read

Andrew emailed to ask why we don’t have a StackOverflow DevDays day in New York City. That’s a fair question! There’s a big software development community here.… Read more "Conferences in New York"

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9 Jun 2009

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

Whoa. Less than a month ago, we announced first Stack Overflow DevDays and opened registration to 300 people in each of five cities. Well, that sold out… Read more "StackOverflow DevDays: Five New Cities"

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3 Jun 2009

Joel Spolsky 2 min read

The Joel on Software Job Board has been working well since we launched it almost three years ago. It logs about 220,000 unique visitors every 21 days,… Read more "Get a job"

stack overflownews

29 May 2009

12 May 2009

Joel Spolsky 4 min read

Stack Overflow has been going nuts—after just six months in business, we’ve had 3.5 million unique visitors per month. We’ve starting thinking about how to get that… Read more "Stack Overflow DevDays"

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5 May 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

“Even as competitors like Circuit City go bust, B&H remains packed with loyal customers. And that makes me very happy. For a business owner, there’s nothing more… Read more "Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives"

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29 Apr 2009

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3 Apr 2009

Joel Spolsky 1 min read

We’re always looking for good programmers at Fog Creek, but right now we could really, really use a top notch Win32 (C/C++) developer to join the Copilot… Read more "Win32 programmer needed"

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