What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

Mar 12, 2023 • Marco Cecconi

Stack Overflow is the go-to resource for developers worldwide seeking solutions to their programming problems. Its impressive database of millions of questions and answers has been curated and built over the years, offering an exhaustive library of programming knowledge. However, the site has come u…

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Fan mail

Oct 15, 2021 • Marco Cecconi

Multiple people with my name (homonyms) are convinced their email address is like mine without the dot, e.g., marcocecconi@ instead of marco.cecconi@. For the Gmail mail servers, these two are aliases of each other. Every email sent to either address gets to my inbox. In particular, all mail comin…

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Intelligent Trip

Sep 29, 2021 • Marco Cecconi

After years of building Intelligent Hack, our top-notch consultancy to help start-ups and scale-ups create great, scalable products, I think it is high time I added an update to how it is going and what's next for us. Let me assure you that the company is doing great, growing, and sustainable. Even…

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Guest blog: Building, in partnership with communities by Shog9

Feb 03, 2021 • Marco Cecconi

Preface from Sklivvz: Stack Overflow was created with a strong idea person, Jeff Atwood a.k.a. Coding Horror, counterbalanced by a strong community builder, Josh Heyer a.k.a. Shog9. Where Jeff provided direction and alignment, Shog represented the community and its needs. This allowed Stack Overflow…

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Can you migrate a company from on-premise to remote-only?

Dec 02, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

As I prepare for my talk at Digital Warriors 2020, entitled "from office to remote in 48h", I want to share some thoughts about the process of moving a company from office to remote-first and then to remote-only. This post represents what I've learned over the past eight years working at the best re…

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Announcing Intelligent Cache, our caching library

Nov 25, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing today our newest open source project intelligent cache. We are very enthusiastic about this project because we think we constructed a very usable interface and ecosystem which you can rely on and extend extremely easily. Let me talk to you about it. …

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Guest Blog: The mythical 10x programmer by Antirez

Nov 19, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

Preface from Sklivvz: I met Salvatore (Antirez) when I was working at Stack Overflow and he was the maintainer of Redis, one of the major parts of our infrastructure. Besides our common Italian heritage, what struck me was that we shared very many ideas about programming. This became absolutely evid…

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Team EMEA

Oct 27, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

Last month I described how Intelligent Hack grew from a personal project to a real company when we hired our first two "valued associates" Oded and Mariusz. A few weeks ago I introduced you to our first engineering team, team America. Today I want to introduce our second engineering team: Team EMEA…

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Guest Blog: Technology and Storytelling by Orf Quarenghi

Oct 23, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

Preface from Sklivvz: I've known Orf for many years and, he is one of the most creative and innovative developers that I know. He mixes video game-style coding and hardware building to create unique interactive exhibition pieces. A lot of his interactive stories are presented in museums or other hig…

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Consider using simple models, instead

Oct 14, 2020 • Marco Cecconi

I want to share with you the pattern which I use very often to build classes in my web applications. It is different and relatively more straightforward in comparison to most enterprise patterns. I don't claim it's suitable for anyone but me -- I write web applications. It works exceptionally well f…

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Hi, I'm Marco Cecconi. I am the founder of Intelligent Hack, developer, hacker, blogger, conference lecturer. Bio: ex Stack Overflow core team, ex Toptal EM.

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What can Stack Overflow learn from ChatGPT?

Stack Overflow could benefit from adopting a using conversational AI to provide specific answers

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Fan mail

Multiple people with my name use my email address and I can read their email, chaos ensues!

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Intelligent Trip

After years of building, our top-notch consultancy to help start-ups and scale-ups create great, scalable products, I think it is high time I added an update to how it is going and what's next for us.

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Guest blog: Building, in partnership with communities by Shog9

A lesson in building communities by Stack Overflow's most prominent community manager emeritus, Shog9

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Can you migrate a company from on-premise to remote-only?

Some lessons learned over the past 8 years of remote work in some of the best remote companies on the planet

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Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy 

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