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What's in an npm package? And can we make them smaller? I investigated how npm packages are compressed using gzip and what it might looking like to switch to a modern compressor like Brotli or zstd #node #nodejs #npm #javascript https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/

In a recent study titled Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy.

Attached: 1 image Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old" Devs:

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Attached: 1 image Substack’s core pitch is that it wants to bring back the golden age of blogging by using the same social media/creator economy incentives that undid the golden age of blogging. The dissonance pains my brain every time I run across it in their marketing.