Editor of StackOverflow.blog. Former Grubhub technical writer. Guy who doesn't really use Twitter.
Joined March 2013
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Mar 23
AI has promised to give developers a second brain—but is it actually harming their first brain? Ryan Donovan @RThorDonovan writes about the dangers of cognitive offloading, what AI users can do to keep their problem solving skills from atrophying, and how AI builders can create tools that help the human mind, not harm it.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
22 May 2025
Money is pouring into the AI industry, causing ripple effects across tech. But with disruptions for companies large and small, how does one run a software business? On the floor of HumanX, the answer was clear: real solutions are built on good data.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
8 Jul 2024
🎙️ @eiramaybe and @RThorDonovan sit down with Carol Lee, PhD, principal research scientist in the Developer Success Lab at @pluralsight, to chat about about her research into code review anxiety, how developers are coping, and the power of a workbook.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
3 Jul 2024
🎙️ Developer and software consultant Ben Borra joins the home team for a wide-ranging conversation about developer productivity, the value of positive feedback, the impact of code assistants on devs’ everyday work, and the challenges of system rewrites.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
20 May 2024
It's our favorite time of year - our annual Developer Survey is here! From your preferred programming languages, the new tech you want to explore, and much, much more, we're calling all who code to weigh in.
Take the survey: stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.…
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
23 Jan 2024
The home team talks about the hacker who exposed a security vulnerability in AI-powered software, security risks of smart devices, and the programming language that features time travel.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
7 Nov 2023
🎙️@detkin, founder and CEO of @sleuth_io, joins @RThorDonovan to talk all things engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, continuous delivery, and how his psychology degree has proven useful in his work as an engineering manager and startup founder.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
5 Oct 2023
#sponsored On this episode sponsored by @Logitech, we chat with composer and live coder @tiemposdelruido about her journey from studying music to writing software and the comma that silenced her show for nine tense minutes. stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/0…
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
3 Oct 2023
In our Developer Survey this year, new programming language Zig landed one of the top three most admired scores. Our own @RThorDonovan sits down with @croloris, VP of Community at the Zig Foundation, to discuss its appeal and benefits.
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31 Aug 2023
The book that critics rave "I got this in the mail," and "The press release copy was nice."
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Learning the wrong lesson from things is sort of my superpower.
8 Aug 2023
On our latest episode, @benpopper and @RThorDonovan chat with Vladyslav Ukis, Head of R&D at @SiemensHealth, the relationship between DevOps and site reliability engineering and his thoughts on how GenAI will impact the SRE field.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
14 Jun 2023
Yes, @elonmusk shadow-banned @doctorow, likely because he nailed it with his Enshittification piece.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
13 Jun 2023
On this episode, @benpopper and @RThorDonovan sit down with pioneering software developer Jim Highsmith to chat about engineering for NASA's Apollo Program and his role as one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
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18 Apr 2023
Someone on Hacker News described the apps built off of generative AI that uses training data from thousands of real people as "HUMANCENTiPAD" and I'm dying.
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
31 Mar 2023
Looking to hire a great freelancer developer or dev team to work on a project with global impact.
Ideally folks with senior level experience in Python and C .
If you or someone you know fits the bill, please get in touch via DMs or shoot me an email: bpopper at stackoverlow
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6 Feb 2023
Excited to finally release this Q&A with @jmgarcia82 of @IBMQuantum into the wild: stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/0…
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Ryan Thor Donovan retweeted
12 Dec 2022
Our CEO and Cofounder @FilippoConforti sat down with @benpopper and @RThorDonovan from @StackOverflow to talk about the importance of #microfrontends (and more) — listen to the #podcast! 🎧🎙️ stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/1…
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Its impossible to write comedies with this good of a script
SBF pitches the sequoia partnership
Vision? "Buy a banana with fake internet money"
Blows the partnership away. Wow.
During the partner meeting ? PLAY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
This is god-tier comedy
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9 Nov 2022
I'm pretty down on the whole web3/blockchain thing, but this conversation I had with @woodwardmatt opened my eyes to the decentralized alternatives to blockchain. Not saying it's the future or nothing, just an interesting wrinkle.
9 Nov 2022
On our latest episode, @benpopper and @RThorDonovan chat with @woodwardmatt, head of developer relations at Swilrds Labs about the difference between a hashgraph and a blockchain, @hedera's commitment to environmental sustainability, and more:
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