The people most affected by the tech layoffs
Overall, these layoffs are a body blow to diversity in tech, not just slowing but actually reversing hard-won gains.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
Eira May
Eira May is a Senior Content Marketer and member of the editorial team at Stack Overflow. She has worked in content and product marketing at Auth0, Vacasa, and Jama Software, and once wrote a dissertation on alternate histories. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
The next gen web browser has no tabs, only spaces (Ep. 554)
Ben and Cassidy sit down with The Browser Company to talk about reimagining the web browser—and the way we use the internet.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
After crypto’s reality check, an investor remains cautiously optimistic (Ep. 553)
Kenny Hearn, Fund Manager and Head of Research at SwissOne Capital, tells Ben about his path from traditional asset management to Web3 specialist and why he remains optimistic about the future of the market.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow (Ep. 551)
Charles “Cobih” Obih and Radek Markiewicz of the Stack Overflow platform team join Ben and Ryan to talk about changes to the inbox and what it’s like to build Stack Overflow’s public platform.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
What’s different about these layoffs
As the discouraging news continues, we revisit how our core community of developers has been experiencing the layoffs—and explore what sets this economic situation apart from previous dips and busts.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
Let’s talk large language models (Ep. 550)
The home team unpacks their complicated feelings about AI, the Beyoncé deepfake that got kpop hopes up, and the pandemic’s ripple effects on today’s teenagers. Ben, the world’s worst coder, tells Cassidy and Ceora about building a web app with an AI assistant.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
How to position yourself to land the job you want (Ep. 547)
The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
“Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply to other people’s savings (Ep. 545)
Christine Ryu, Engineering Lead at fintech platform Flourish, joins the home team to talk about how technology is transforming finance for everyone from big banks to individual consumers. Christine explains what it’s like to move from Goldman Sachs to a tiny startup, how legacy tech stacks lead to Frankencode, and what an acquisition taught her about build vs. buy and good vs. perfect.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
The nature of simulating nature: A Q&A with IBM Quantum researcher Dr. Jamie Garcia (Ep. 544)
Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, tells Ryan about IBM’s 433-qubit quantum computer and the real-life applications of quantum computing today.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
The open-source game engine you’ve been waiting for: Godot (Ep. 543)
Juan Linietsky, cofounder and lead developer of the Godot Engine, joins the home team for a conversation about what led him to create an open-source game engine, how open source is shaping game development, and the well-worn path from playing video games to learning to build them.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer
ML and AI consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 542)
The home team talks with Jaclyn Rice Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Tribe AI, about the explosion of hype surrounding generative AI, what it’s like to work at a startup after working at Google, and how Tribe is leveraging the power of a specialist network.
Eira May
Senior Content Marketer