Joel on Software

Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·19 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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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·27 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...

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·2 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...

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·18 Jun 2020

Sometimes when you’re trying to figure out the way the world works, basic math is enough to get you going. If we increase the hot water flow by x, the temperature of the mixture goes up by y.

Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·5 Dec 2019

For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow.

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·24 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...

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·28 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.

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·3 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...

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·23 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...

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Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky·13 Apr 2018

[This is the second in a series of posts about Stack Overflow. The first one is The Stack Overflow Age.]

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