When I started at Stack Overflow nearly seven years ago, my primary duty was to manage the blog. My boss at the time decided to treat the blog like an editorial outlet with an engineering focus, with external contributors providing articles that discussed what life was like as a software engineer alongside our own work. It proved successful; many of those contributed articles are among our most popular and insightful pieces. Personally, I wanted more voices on the blog, but I was limited by our distribution channels and the time it took to source and edit contributions. Stack Overflow has always been a place for the software engineering community to share their knowledge and trade insights so everyone could build better. Our Q&A covered the problems and pitfalls that come from creating software; maybe the blog could cover what engineers thought about their work and the world they’re creating. A few months ago, we explored the possibility of opening up articles on the main Stack Overflow site.…