I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of
Stack Overflow
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The Vast and Endless Sea
After we created Stack Overflow, some people were convinced we had built a marginally better mousetrap for asking and answering questions. The inevitable speculation began: can we use your engine to build a Q&A site about {topic}? Our answer was Stack Exchange. Pay us $129 a month (and up)
The Stack Overflow Age
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.
Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers | TechCrunch
Stack Overflow, the community site best known for providing answers for all of your random coding questions, also has a thriving jobs board and provides
Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
Drupal's collective purpose
How Drupal is fueled by a collective sense of purpose that sets us apart from other open source software communities and organizations.
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
Landslide / Holdfast
Notes on what’s happening to our ability to collectively know things, and a look ahead to what this community is especially well positioned to do to support and revitalize our info ecosystems and the humans inside them.
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
Web Platform: What are we working on?
Web Platform What are we working on? Simone Onofri WebEngineHackFest 2025
I Don't Make Content - Fernando Gros
I’ve been putting stuff online since way before anyone was called a content creator. So, if we aren’t just making content, what are we doing?
StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse
Jeff Atwood wants to improve the entire internet. That's always been his goal a better place. He started by co-founding StackOverflow, a question-and-answer site for software developers that revolutionized the way they learn online, and eventually, this evolved into StackExchange, a network of Q&A sites spanning myriad topics. Now, Atwood has renewed his crusade with Discourse, an open source application for building online message boards that he hopes will become as ubiquitous as WordPress.
Stacktracer's Dev Shrine
Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you in the right direction so you can see for yourself.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.
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Around the world, building the internet’s operating system—and a better way to work. In a world of tech companies fighting for growth at any cost, imagine one that gives away its most successful pr…
A Dusting of Gamification
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.
