Jeff Atwood

Answers that rank. Atwood, author of the Coding Horror blog, co-founded Stack Overflow in 2008 and designed much of how it works: questions and answers voted up or down, reputation points and badges earned by helping, and editing by trusted users. For over a decade it was where developers found working solutions, though AI assistants have since sharply reduced its traffic. He later co-founded the open-source forum software Discourse.