Stack Overflow Podcast #100 - Jeff Atwood is back! (for today…)

**Joel Spolsky** (0:00)
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This is The Stack Overflow Podcast, episode 64 Hexadecimal, psych!
This is The Stack Overflow Podcast, episode 102 We got that joke.

**Jay Hanlon** (0:36)
That was just like the perfect... Joel makes a cheap bad joke, David sighs, I giggle like a schoolgirl, and Jeff silently shakes his head at the bad joke, like old times.

**Joel Spolsky** (0:46)
Just like old times.
This is The Stack Overflow Podcast, episode 100, recorded Thursday, January 26th, 2017, at Stack Overflow Headquarters in New York, New York, home to the Statue of Liberty, where more than 8 million people live in peace and enjoy the benefits of democracy. Today's podcast is brought to you by The Cheeseburger. It's a hamburger topped with cheese, and Compose. Compose has spent the last five years helping developers ship applications with production-grade databases. Try Compose today and get a free, limited edition T-shirt. Her equalities are limited. Offer only for US residents.
Visit compose.com today. On today's podcast, the usual crew, VP of Stack Overflow, Jay Hanlon.

**Jay Hanlon** (2:00)
Good afternoon.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:01)
VP of Engineering, David Fullerton.

**David Fullerton** (2:03)
Hello.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:04)
You know, David, actually this morning, I woke up and I thought, sorry to interrupt.

**Jay Hanlon** (2:08)
We almost started the podcast.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:09)
It's in today's David's wedding anniversary, and I wonder if he's planning anything special. Oh no. But then I forgot that and went to work.

**David Fullerton** (2:17)
It is my wedding anniversary.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:18)
All right, happy anniversary.

**David Fullerton** (2:19)
It's weird that you know that.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:22)
And our news editor is Ilana Yitzhakhi.

**Jay Hanlon** (2:23)
Hello, everyone. Is anyone else nervous, like David's wife's gonna pop out of a cake, or I don't understand what's happening right now, but I'm disoriented.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:29)
I wanna know what you plan for your anniversary.

**Jay Hanlon** (2:31)
Are you going to dinner? What are you gonna do?

**Ilana Yitzhakhi** (2:33)
How about some champagne?

**Joel Spolsky** (2:38)
Okay, this is a special champagne episode. And today, in honor of this special 100th episode of The Stack Overflow Podcast, Stack Overflow Podcast co-founder, Jeff Atwood.

**Jeff Atwood** (2:48)
Hello.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:49)
And I'm your host, Joel Spolsky.

**Jay Hanlon** (2:51)
Welcome back, Jeff.

**Jeff Atwood** (2:52)
Yeah, thanks. It's good to be here. I miss you guys.

**Joel Spolsky** (2:56)
Okay, what's going on? All kinds of stuff. Joel's rant. It's just blank. I have no rant for today.
We can go on to one minute tech review.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:04)
Have you tried out any new tech products, Joel, that you could describe to us, ideally in, let's be realistic, seven to eight minutes?

**Joel Spolsky** (3:09)
Okay, I'm gonna do it in one minute.
This is an app called Band. Has anybody seen this app?

**David Fullerton** (3:13)
No.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:13)
It's called Band. It's like a phone app?

**Joel Spolsky** (3:15)
Yes. Nobody's seen it.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:16)
Unfamiliar.

**Joel Spolsky** (3:17)
Okay, that is the problem. It has like groups. There are group chats.
You can make events with like times. And you can be like tonight, the group is going to dinner and picture album. So like after dinner, you can put up some pictures of the dinner.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:28)
Like a GroupMe or Belugo, like little mini chat groups.

**Joel Spolsky** (3:32)
Yes. I didn't realize there were other apps that did this, but okay, this one is called Band.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:35)
Sorry, sorry, I thought there was.

**Joel Spolsky** (3:37)
So here's what happened. My friend Peter made a group. He invited me.
He sent me a message. I sent him back a message. I installed the app. I signed up. I put my phone number and chose a password, put the password in my password manager.

**Jay Hanlon** (3:46)
We know how apps work, right?

**Joel Spolsky** (3:48)
This is also sort of having to serve as a rant because it's like if I have to sign up for a new app, it's probably gonna take 20 minutes while I load my password manager and then choose a password. And it's like 18 characters with special squiggles.

**Jay Hanlon** (4:00)
But they've correctly figured out that if you have a friend named Peter and he wants to invite you to something, you might just put up with that nonsense and you did.