Right Back At Ya: We're Doubling Our Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast

• Episode: Right Back At Ya: We're Doubling Our Podcast
• Website: The Stack Overflow Podcast
• Feed URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/podcasts/?feed=podcast
• Duration: 00:25:16
• Published: 2020-03-27 05:20

Ben is now the full time IT department for his two sons, one of whom is in kindergarten and one in first grade. The children have transitioned from public school to Zoom, Google Classroom, Konstella, FaceTime, and five million other services. 

Paul's neighbors in his apartment building are digging old laptops out of storage and leaving them in front of his door. They bleach them first, so that they are 100% disinfected. Then Paul slaps on a little Ubuntu/Lubuntu and those old machines are suddenly zippy netbooks that help adults and kids work and study from home. 

Sara reveals she has an amazing "resting interested face" - a skill that makes her the most popular person at any live talk in front of an audience. 

That box of old cables finally came in handy! We shout out our lifeboat badge winners, as we near the major milestone of 1000 lifeboats. Keep them coming.