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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Like half of the npm is maintained by a single, arguably awful, person who writes his microprojects into large pieces of software to maximize how often his code gets installed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just looked them up… holy hell. How does one have so many repos! And all the apps he’s made. ~~What’s the story on them?~~

Edit: just looked it up myself. Seems to be a well liked person in the open source community. Idk. Regardless, props to them for the work they put in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

That's them, yup!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Jon Schlinkert, I believe. Sindre has a lot of stuff as well, but has a better reputation afaik

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a fork is in order