Progress on the Block Protocol
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky19 Dec 2022
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML.
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top 52%Making the web better. With blocks!
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky27 Jan 2022
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 list of potential blocks that you can insert into this...
Kinda a big announcement
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky2 Jun 2021
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 he was born, everyone knew that COM was already so deeply obsolete...
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky5 Dec 2019
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow.
Welcome, Prashanth!
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky24 Sept 2019
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 could foster the community while accelerating the...
The next CEO of Stack Overflow
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky28 Mar 2019
Big news! 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. Stack Overflow has been around for more than a decade.
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky3 May 2018
Hey, we have a new thing for you today! 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...
Strange and maddening rules
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky23 Apr 2018
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, line by...
A Dusting of Gamification
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky13 Apr 2018
[This is the second in a series of posts about Stack Overflow. The first one is The Stack Overflow Age.]