{"id":21142,"date":"2018-04-06T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:10:53","slug":"the-stack-overflow-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/the-stack-overflow-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stack Overflow Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2018\/04\/06\/the-stack-overflow-age\/\">Joel Spolsky<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spolsky\/status\/982250865846177794\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2018\/04\/06\/the-stack-overflow-age\/\">\n<p>And, also: <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\">Stack Overflow<\/a> will be ten years old soon! Wow! So I thought it would be cool to get the old band back together for a little reunion tour over the next few weeks. I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way. With some perspective, it&rsquo;s clearer now what we did right and what we messed up, so I&rsquo;ll try to cover the good and the bad over a series of blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it turned out a lot bigger than we thought it would. The company today has 250 employees, is profitable, and has made it possible for millions of people to learn how to code and to deal with the new, super-complicated world of APIs and frameworks that we live in. But we just wanted to fix the internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky (tweet): And, also: Stack Overflow will be ten years old soon! Wow! So I thought it would be cool to get the old band back together for a little reunion tour over the next few weeks. I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-07T14:59:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"d8b92f5b-16e6-4b0d-8aa2-8f0aac6aed7a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-25T19:10:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2LkvWxbmSw2Koo8KrGrteg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"[\"https:\\\/\\\/news-api.apple.com\\\/sections\\\/b4012003-2938-3396-a818-a504177815f2\"]","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[164,295,71,1877,96],"class_list":["post-21142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-documentation","tag-history","tag-programming","tag-stack-overflow","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21143,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions\/21143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}