A tale of well-designed systems - eviltoast

Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

  • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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    8 months ago

    Until I got to the end, I actually assumed “we’re ethical hackers” meant that they were aging X-ers who’d been aspiring to some Cult of the Dead Cow shit since they were script kiddies in the 90s, not “we’re literally children”. I legit didn’t realize the Youth still talked that way; it’s off putting but almost reassuringly anarchist. Be gay, do NPM crimes, kids!

    They definitely overreacted to github’s scold, though.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOP
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      8 months ago

      I’d want to see what happens if they take github to task on parts of that response, tbh - too many companies get away with that kind of overblown bullshit (usually because legal team asymmetry)