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System Initiative is a deployment/orchestration tool similar to Ansible, Terraform, etc. The following podcast gives a good overview: They recently decided to shut down their cloud service. The following video gives some insight into why: There are a few notable points: Something has changed in the last 6 months. AI coding is getting good. This is an example of how AI has completely upset a company’s plans. Velocity has increased tremendously in development. Ops will follow d...

Just opened an npm RFC to make dependency install scripts opt-in by default. The thing about install scripts: they run the moment a package lands in your dep tree. No require, no review. That's why Shai-Hulud, chalk/debug, and Axios all used them. https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I don’t think there’s one neat and tidy metric that would act as an alternative, I feel a blog post coming 😅

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Just landed in LA for @pycon, hopefully no more GitHub action related security incidents whilst I was traveling, there’s no space left to fit any more in!