# Electron Ennui

URL: /show/coder-radio/397/
> Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 397
- Date: 2021-01-20
- Hosts: chris, michael
- Duration: 00:55:10
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/adb2f722-9ea5-494a-95ec-735044c9f8d0.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/VjsqPajKepo



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### Episode Links

  * [Electron package guidelines](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Electron_package_guidelines "Electron package guidelines") — Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.
  * [Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO](https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-comment "Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO") — “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”
  * [Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com](https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2021/01/intel-will-wait-for-new-ceo-to-make-critical-decisions-on-manufacturing-crisis.html "Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com")
  * [MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/16/top-stories-macbook-pro-imac-rumors/ "MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors") — This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.
  * [The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research](http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/ "The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research")