The heaviest object in the universe
For years, scientist believed that 🕳 black holes are the heaviest objects in the universe. But then NodeJS and node_modules were invented.
It’s all funny and stuff, until your CI/CD takes hours and every script kiddy that hijacked a npm package to mine crypto becomes an existential risk to your beloved startup.
But fear no more! I've just published a new article in my blog on how you can minimize the amount of dependencies you have in your node_modules
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4 Ways to Minimize your Dependencies in Node.js
Interesting news about software
A class-action lawsuit was filed against GitHub Copilot. It’s an interesting development, considering the fact that Copilot was trained on public (and possibly private) GitHub repositories with possible disregard to licenses.
It’s always interesting to see how JavaScript ecosystem evolves. I’ve posted many years ago about the Intl
API in JavaScript and why I think it should be standard for all your i18n needs. Earlier this week, Amit Merchant posted about Human-readable date difference in JavaScript which utilizes the Intl
API to produce human-readable date differences. And you don’t need any 3rd party package for that! Go check it out.