Hacking the Holidays

Stack Overflow: Our Favorite Books of 2025

January 19, 2026January 17, 2026Jonathan H. Liu

Here are some of our favorite reads from 2025!

Stack Overflow: 2026 Reading Resolutions

January 12, 2026January 5, 2026Jonathan H. Liu

Each year, a few of us here like to make some related resolutions: personal goals or hopes for our reading habits for the year.

Comfy chair next to full bookshelves and stacks of books on the floor

Stack Overflow: 2025 Reading Reflections

January 5, 2026January 1, 2026Jonathan H. Liu

Now that the year has ended, we look back at our reading resolutions and reflect on the past year.

GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Books

December 9, 2025December 8, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Whether you’ve constantly got a book in progress (or two or three) or you read several books a night to your kids, books have a heavy presence in our lives. We can use them to learn, to imagine, and even to escape, and they always make great gifts.

GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Toys

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Here are our favorite finds for toys this year!

GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Games

November 23, 2025December 8, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Another year, another game to discover. If you couldn’t make it to Pax Unplugged this weekend, try creating your own event at home with these suggestions from our current favorite games to share with your friends and family this holiday season.

Trick or Treat? 13 Tabletop Games for Halloween

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Trick or treat? If you’re looking for some tabletop games for spooky season, we’ve got you covered.

Stack Overflow: Friendly Monsters and Not-So-Wicked Witches

October 20, 2025October 19, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Witches are wicked and monsters are scary … or maybe sometimes they’re not so bad after all.

Highway to Halloween: ‘The Jester 2’ Poster and Movie Giveaway

October 15, 2025October 20, 2025Paul Benson

Win two signed posters and a copy of ‘The Jester 2’

Highway to the Holidays: The ‘Star Wars’ 7.5 ft. Animated Chewbacca

October 7, 2025October 6, 2025Paul Benson

You’ll want to let this Wookie win.

Stack Overflow: We’ve Got Spirit(s)!

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Happy October—time for some spooky reads!

Highway to Halloween: 2.75FT ‘Ghostbusters’ Animatronic Terror Dog Decoration

September 23, 2025September 22, 2025Paul Benson

Another great ‘Ghostbusters’ creature comes to life!

Highway to Halloween: The Universal 6 ft. Animated LED Bride of Frankenstein

September 2, 2025August 31, 2025Paul Benson

The Bride of Frankenstein stuns in her animatronic debut.

Highway to Halloween: The Haunted Hill Farm ‘I Scream Clown’ Halloween Animatronic Prop

August 14, 2025Paul Benson

Who knew ice cream was bad for you?

HalloweenCostumes.com Reveals Massive Wave of Animatronics for 2025

July 18, 2025Paul Benson

HalloweenCostumes.com’s biggest animatronic lineup ever!

Highway to Halloween: The Lowe’s Haunted Haunted Sea Diver Animatronic

May 21, 2025May 20, 2025Paul Benson

One of the best looking animatronics Lowe’s offers.

Small crocheted person standing in a gap between several standing books.

Stack Overflow: 2025 Reading Resolutions

January 6, 2025January 2, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

The beginning of the year is always a time of reflections and projections, and what more appropriate way to think about turning over a new leaf than by considering the leaves we plan to be turning in our books?