Working from home is powering productivity (News)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

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1. What up, SpaceX nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269029/spacex-starship-launch-super-heavy-chopstick-launch-tower-return-fifth-flight-test?utm_source=changelog-news

2. WFH is powering productivity (00:00:37)

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom?utm_source=changelog-news

3. The expropriation of Advanced Custom Fields (00:01:56)

https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Software Engineer pay heat map (US) (00:03:25)

https://www.levels.fyi/heatmap/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: System Initiative (00:04:11)

https://www.systeminit.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=changelog-news

6. The disappearance of an Internet domain (00:05:42)

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Cognitive Load is what matters (00:06:44)

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:37)

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