It Ain't Real Till You Break Prod

<p>Cassidy helps to write The Overflow newsletter and is two months into a new gig as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at <a href="https://www.netlify.com/?utm_source=cassidoowebsite&utm_medium=bio-cs&utm_campaign=devex">Netlify. </a>That's where she broke Prod, but it turned out ok.</p><p>We chat about <a href="https://hey.com/">Hey</a> what it means for software engineers when prominent coders are arguing with big mobile platforms about the fees that the owners of the OS collect. What's old is new again. </p><p>Bot armies are <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/world-of-warcraft-classic-russian-bots/">farming gold</a> in World of Warcraft, which takes us down a wandering path of wondering how often people have access to powerful computers, but limited access to money they can spend on essentials.</p><p>Last but not least, we try to dissect a great question from our Software Engineering Stack Exchange: <a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/411585/ways-to-explain-code-when-told-it-doesnt-make-sense">ways to explain code when told it doesn't make sense</a>.</p><p>Shout out to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, "wizard", who answered the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16981232/is-there-an-equivalent-method-to-cs-scanf-in-java/16981382#16981382">following question</a>: is there an equivalent method to C's scanf in Java.</p>