My two weeks of unemployment begin this week. Looking forward to some quality rest and recharge.
Software Engineering ⚙️
Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization
The author came up with a set of cool visualizations that describe engineering processes. But what I found interesting is not the visualizations themselves but the questions that the visualizations try to answer.
Answer 👉 2.6% of free #iOS apps and 4.4% of free #Android apps are built with #ReactNative
A couple of caveats with the statistics: first, the statistics include games usually built with game engines. Second, the more popular apps use React Native more (12%).
People ❤️
The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers
I found “I trust you, make the call” the most important of all the listed micro-habits. Another great one I heard is using “and” not “but” when you are giving positive and constructive feedback. “But” invalidates all feedback that came before.
Business 💸
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
Different folks have different views on if Apple won in this round: some say Apple lost now that they have to give up a sizeable chunk of their payment processing fee. Others say Apple won because it still kept control over the App Store. However, Epic hasn’t yet achieved its original goal, to restore Fortnite with its payment system despite its transgression.
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests
Possibly the fallout of the Great Resignation?
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