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I have a client who wants a mobile app on the app store (ios + android). Their mobile web experience is more than good enough, and they shouldn't need to build another separate app from scratch for this simple use case, they aren't using any of the native apis. But they want their app searchable and installable from the app stores.

I've used Apache Cordova[0] years ago for this, but wondering what the current best option is.

The options are:

[0] Apache Cordova - I used this years ago, but wondering if it still holds up, I read that it's no longer maintained. Is it better to create an expo app and use the webview component?[1] Has anyone tried pwa builder?[2]

Thank you for any insights!

[0]https://cordova.apache.org/ [1]https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/webview/ [2]https://www.pwabuilder.com/

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Looking for recommendations of modern domain hosts that provide a good user experience and competitive pricing.

Don't need hosting, just domains.

There's been lots of talk lately about quiet-quitting, over-employment (having 2 remote jobs), and coasting 1-2 hours per day (or even per week) as a remote software developer.

I see two ways to think about this:

1. The company is getting what they want out of the employee, so why does hours worked matter? It's about outcome, not output. If the company is none the wiser, that's their problem.

2. The company and the employee entered into a contract that often explicitly states hours-per-week worked. The employee is being dishonest by intentionally misleading the employer that this is how much work they can accomplish in a week.

The common arguments for (1) that I hear are:

A. It's not possible to do more than 4 hours of mentally intensive work a day on average (everyone is different). That's fine but 4 hours a day is a far cry from having 2 fully remote jobs, or working only a few hours a week.

B. Devs only did 1-2 hours a day of real work in an office environment anyways. The rest was interruptions. This might be correct, but you were still "working" - ie. using mental cycles, having discussions, and guiding others, as pedantic or seemingly useless it may have seemed. Now that you have mental cycles freed up, shouldn't those go towards your work?

I want to hear HNs thoughts on:

* How common is this scenario?

* Do you think this is a growing problem in the industry?

* How are employers handling these situations?