Ever wanted to do something with the #stackoverflow data dumps but found their multi gigabyte XML files too hard to deal with? That is...if you could find them at all after they stopped posting to the internet archive?

SEqlite's for you! It's the info from the dumps you probably care about, preprocessed into SQLite databases with indexes.

https://seqlite.puny.engineering

Ah, the cutting-edge service every developer was yearning for: a digital crystal ball that predicts the demise of that JavaScript framework your coworker won't stop championing. Enjoy the exclusive privilege of mourning tech with 99 other enthusiasts, while the rest of us continue to use Stack Overflow for free.
https://www.isthistechdead.com #digitalcrystalball #JavaScriptframework #techtrends #developerhumor #StackOverflow #HackerNews #ngated

DNSControl is an opinionated platform for seamlessly managing your DNS configuration across any number of DNS hosts, both in the cloud or in your own infrastructure. It manages all of the domains for the #StackOverflow network,
#dns
https://dnscontrol.org/

Today Im mostly looking at how to make the #ViewerJS #iframe at least partially responsive (have a better height re screensize maybe). So Im staring at SO a lot for hack ideas. This is their AI answer warning. Very interesting considering 'AI' takes everything we make but we don't want anything it gives back, at least not in the main tech forums. Uni's should take note of this, but probably dont even know.

#stackoverflow experts, I need your help again!

Could those of you with the power to do so vote to un-delete the (very useful) 2nd response to

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79545467

Always a bit annoying when "curators" close/delete ongoing discussions

For some reason, this morning is the day I've (finally) decided to take some time to actually learn #git in a more systematic way than my current approach of googling as I go along and inevitably forgetting how I solved the last problem...

I enjoyed reading and answering the quiz questions of the W3 schools tutorial (https://www.w3schools.com/git/) and I'm grateful to the #Stackoverflow peeps who have asked the same silly questions that I've been asking myself and to the kind people who patiently answered them. Now I know that "origin" doesn't have a particular meaning, it's just an alias for a URL and that there is a system to the use of one or two dashes in git commands (okay, I could have admittedly worked that one out by myself but trial-and-error served me just fine for the past few years... ).

Stack Overflow: Developers strongly prefer open-source AI https://www.developer-tech.com/news/stack-overflow-developers-strongly-prefer-open-source-ai/ #stackoverflow #developers #coding #programming #opensource #ai #tech #news #technology

#Development #Findings
The decline of Stack Overflow · Which fields were affected the most by the rise of AI? https://ilo.im/1635mr

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#Programming #Coding #Debugging #StackOverflow #AI #AiAssistant #ChatGPT #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

oh shoot! stackoverflow is down?!
guess it's time for a coffee break.
#stackoverflow #programming

Just saying, if anyone wants to find the most efficient way of finding the digits of an integer, this might be it :

``` c
#include <stdio.h>

// _ = indentation

int count_digits(int arg) {
__return snprintf(NULL, 0, "%d", arg) - (arg < 0);
}
```

Credit to this guy on #StackOverflow -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/34629799

EDIT : Oh, I guess @Mastodon doesn't support #markdown.

#StackOverflow is moving from its own servers to Google Cloud Platform today

Учора десь години 4 витратив на налаштування #nginx та #wordpress. Начебто звучить нескладно, але спробуйте це зробити не на головному домені, а по префіксу, типу www.example.com/blog/
Сам WP це дозволяє - проблема була в налаштуваннях обробки локації /blog у звʼязці з обробкою php. Мучив #chatgpt, але в якийсь момент він вичерпав свої ідеї та почав ходити по колу. Прийшлось трохи підхачить шляхи симлінками та усе запрацювало.
Начебто працює як треба, але я розумію, що це саме хак. То, сьогодні на свіжу голову переробив як треба було. Знайшов рішення десь на #stackoverflow

I don't get how someone with lots of technical knowledge would think that an offline #LLM is a better solution to internet censorship than fucking #Kiwix . You know you can just, download all of #StackOverflow onto any device, right? And that it's basically the same data the LLMs are trained on? Except you won't get hallucinations?

#Coding help on #StackOverflow dives as #AI assistants rise
Developer Q&A platform StackOverflow appears to be facing an existential crisis as volume of new questions on the site has plunged 75% from the 2017 peak and 60% year-on-year in December 2024, according to #StackExchange Data Explorer figures.
https://devclass.com/2025/01/08/coding-help-on-stackoverflow-dives-as-ai-assistants-rise/

Not much to update today, besides that I created a minimal repro for my problem and asked for a help on #Stackoverflow. I also asked ChatGPT for help, but I’m tired after work today, and its answers don’t seem to make sense to me.
#BuildInPublic #IndieDev #iOSDev

I think a lot of people in tech don't give enough thought to the lesson of StackOverflow.

For years, before the Internet and during its explosion onto the world consciousness, there were people asking for help. And it became such a chore to answer their questions that "RTFM" became a meme. It metamorphed from a meme to a weird badge of pride... Telling a newbie to RTFM was a signifier of "those in the know" from "those still struggling to know."

Yet the questions kept coming.

And along came a team that build a mechanism for asking questions, answering them, and automating closure of that loop so that common questions were likely to be matched to common answers, and... For most users, it supplanted the old way of learning systems. Now the common pattern is "browse enough of the documentation to get started, and when you get stuck, hit StackOverflow."

I think the lesson here is that when you see a consistent, repeating human pattern of need and attempts to solve that need across years and years, it reflects a weakness in the current solution space.

Hmm this can't be legal under Creative Commons. Can it?

Maybe SO have a terms of use that allows them to show content on-site without attribution. Even then, re-users would have no way of knowing that, so others are still misinformed about the content's license.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/01/10/luigi-mangiones-account-renamed-on-stack-overflow/ by @mjtsai