Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days

<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

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)

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026

More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.

We have killed the technical debt - Alex's Blog

Big day for docs 🙂🙂

Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal

Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...

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.

Why Are We Still Doing This?

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Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

This Week in Open Source for October 2, 2026

Explore Gemma 4 12B inference math, local RAG with LiteRT, Google's EnvHarness, Mozilla & Mila's open AI stack, and October OSS events.

Open Source Friday

This Friday, invest a few hours contributing to the software you use and love.

Post-alpha plans

Hey folks 👋 We’re about a month into the spaces alpha! From what I can tell, it’s going along pretty nicely. We pushed out one breaking change about two weeks back, but it’s been pretty stable apart from that. I wanted to share a list of some of the open questions we’re still noodling on. Many of these will likely involve breaking changes. Most of these are not truly “open”, we have opinions on them and need to just nail it down. However, if anything is important to you, please sha...

Should We End Take-Home Exams?

I have updated my priors.

What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026

In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…

Research Debt

Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...