I'm seeing more and more tech companies that are headquartered in the Bay Area, and hiring mostly remote workers. With the right kind of team leader, and the right workers, a remote team can be nearly as effective as an in-house team, and costs are not as high. I wonder if these stats are skewed by remote workers, since they are technically not in the "Bay Area", even though the HQ may be?

I miss the days of using simple graphicals toolkits to get the job done. Now we're in the middle of a mess of HTML/CSS Javascript (Choose your Framework), write a REST API, and then write the back end in some other language, and don't forget to make it all secure. I miss the days when things were simpler.