April is ending and the world is still in quarantine.
Everything I said about remote working during a pandemic still stand, but remote work is certainly gaining momentum in at least some of the companies. TCS, an Indian service company employing 0.5 million people have announced that 75% of their workforce will be going remote by 2025. FYI has published a report analysing The Future of Remote Work estimating by 2025, 70% of the workforce will work remotely at least five days in a month. In other news, Uber CTO is leaving the company and they might lay off 20% of their workforce.
The release for is-remote got people in JavaScript community talking. This library is a one liner that determines if a variable is a promise or not. Everything was fine until one day the maintainer made a minor release for supporting ES Modules for new NodeJS update and broke a whole lot of packages. Apps that broke include Serverless and create-react-app. People have been talking about the heavy reliance of third party libraries and how the number of dependencies can kill your app when maintainers make mistakes. There is a post mortem for incident on Medium which is an interesting read.
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Women of React happened last week and it was amazing. The live stream is still up on YouTube. The talks from Maggie Appleton on React Mental Models and Anusree Subramani’s talk on React Developer Tooling are absolute favourites.