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Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming, from Stack Overflow.
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Hello everyone. I would like to share with you a new method for creating compile-time key-value maps that I discovered while experimenting with the new features introduced in C++26. I will also show a new trick I call the compile-time mutable variable. I...
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Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP...
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Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to...
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Ingress-NGINX had been handling our traffic routing since moving to Kubernetes, but when it was announced it would be retired, we were forced to consider a new traffic routing solution.
Topics: Infrastructure
Entities: Infrastructure
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Ryan welcomes Brian O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for...
Entities: Databases
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Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale.
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Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix it.
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Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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Now generally available in the 2026.3 release, Ingestion transforms siloed content into structured, verified knowledge—optimized for both your teams and AI.
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Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured production data.
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When I went to the first HumanX conference in January 2025, agents were vaguely-defined frontier tech. It was the first time I heard the letters MCP. The big conversations were around inference, hallucinations, and retrieval augmented generation. The tech...
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Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the people behind the major technologies that uphold the internet.