Because your conservative funded news outlets have a very overt goal here.

The CEO is a right wing trump worshiper.

Dig into the company’s tweet history, and find archived tweets that were deleted for PR/white-washing reasons.

Long history of this stuff.

I mean… Every serious operating system already has some form of keyring feature right?

Not necessarily. There are many paths to exfiltrated data that don’t require privileged access, and can be exploited through vulnerabilities in other applications.

Yeah, and electron already has a secureStorage API that handles the OS interop for you. Which signal isn’t using, and a PR already exists to enable…

I go full chaos and look up where I last used it when I need a snippet…

Someone who shares their experiences gained from writing real world software, with introspection into the dynamics & struggles involved?

Your age (or mostly career progression, which is correlated) may actually be a reason you have no interest in this.

I think you can have a well tended garden without giving up creativity.

You’re not sacrificing creativity by practicing structures, considerations, and methodologies that maintain or improve the developer experience with whatever creative endeavor you’re on.

The structure of your garden doesn’t prevent you from playing around with new plants, it just outlines a set of patterns and expectations known to drive better outcomes.

I’m not saying that your extension of the analogy is bad I’m just disagreeing with some of the premise.

Pretty much.

For instance focusing on PR size. PR size may be a side effect of the maturity of the product, the type of work being performed, the complexity or lack thereof of the real world space their problems touch, and in the methodologies habits and practices of the team.

Just looking at PR size or really any other single dimensional KPI lead you to lose the nuance that was driving the productivity in the first place.

Honestly in my experience high productivity comes from a high level of unity in how the team thinks, approaches problems, and how diligent they are about their decisions. And isn’t necessarily something that’s strictly learned, it can be about getting the right people together.

To be fair it’s not a good comparison to compare an IC role against a management role for time breakdown.