We still need developer communities

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Major League Hacking is a 500k+ global member community that hosts hackathons and open-source fellowships for the next generation of developers. They recently acquired DEV, an online community for 3M+ developers to learn and share together.

Connect with Mike on LinkedIn or email him at swift@mlh.io.

Congrats to Stellar Answer badge winner Antony Hatchkins for getting over a hundred saves on their answer to Git replacing LF with CRLF.

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Ryan Donovan: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Stack Overflow podcast, a place to talk all things software and technology. I’m your host, Ryan Donovan, and today we’re talking with a fellow traveler in the community space, talking about the entry points for programmers in communities and what the future holds. My guest today is Mike Swift, who is the Co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking. I guess now DEV-2, right?

Mike Swift: That’s right. I’m so excited to be here. Thanks for having me, Ryan.

Ryan Donovan: Yeah. Welcome to the show. So, before we get to chatting, we like to get to know our guests. Can you tell us a little bit about how you got into software and technology?

Mike Swift: Actually, I have a very non-traditional journey into tech. My

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