Articles by Nate Swanner

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  How to Game the App Store, Google Play, or Any Chart System

  Topping the rankings on any app store helps notoriety and "buzz," which in turn helps developers' earnings. We’ve seen this proven time and again, but we’re also getting insight into just how tho…
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  Depression Far Too Common Among Tech Pros: Survey

  Depression is nothing to laugh about, regardless of how many Reddit memes about it try to ease us past the sadness. A new study shows that, in tech, over one-third of professionals admit they hav…
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  When You Should (or Shouldn't) Send Interview Thank-You Notes

  Thank you notes are a great way to follow up on a job interview, but should you always send one? Conventional wisdom says you should, and that’s not a bad way to operate. Typically, there’s nothi…
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  Survey: Should Open-Source Repo Maintainers Be Paid?

  Recently, users discovered a popular open-source JavaScript library executing malicious code to steal cryptocurrency data. A response from the library’s founder and maintainer about the hack surf…
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  Your Job Interview: What to Wear, and Which Looks to Avoid

  After a series of phone screenings, you’ve finally landed a job interview with a company you’re really excited about. Then you realize your de facto outfit is jeans and a t-shirt, and that’s not…
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  Open Office & Virtual Desktop is Our Nightmare Come True

  We were wrong. In October, we discovered a product meant to help you stay focused in an open office setting. It was called the “Wear Space,” and it strapped panels to the wearer's head that restr…
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  JavaScript Dependencies: Why You Should Watch Them Closely

  Last week, someone injected malicious code into a wildly popular JavaScript library. The library wasn’t hacked; the code was put there by a maintainer who was given access by the library’s creato…
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  Swift Is Getting LSP Support in Future Release (It's a Big Deal)

  Swift, the upstart language poised to cement itself amongst the most-used in the industry, will soon support the Language Server Protocol (LSP). On its surface, this news may sound like a languag…
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  Apple’s Supreme Court Case is Important for All Developers

  Large tech companies being sued usually isn’t interesting, at least to developers. Such lawsuits typically boil down to squabbling about contracts or supply chain woes, a slap-fight between #bran…
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  VC Funding Fueled 20-Year Silicon Valley Wage Decline: Study

  Over the past 20 years, wages in Silicon Valley have actually fallen 14 percent, according to new research from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Working Partnership USA. Moreover, th…