The first web server I wrote was literally in bash (back in '98) because that was the only way I knew. (It was actually ksh.. close enough)
Ali Ijaz Sheikh retweeted
please for the love of god stop using public npm (or any package manager) for your production deployments. ffs.
mirror the packages you use and have audited.
xitter.cf/garybernhardt/status/1…
This is exactly what many of us predicted when NPM introduced a world of thousands of separate dependencies per app. The main reactions to that skepticism were "stop being so negative" and "don't try to stop progress." xitter.cf/bcrypt/st…
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📝New #WebAssembly blog post (on my new blog😱)
Compiling C to WebAssembly *without* Emscripten!
➡️ Using vanilla LLVM
➡️ Analyzing build artifacts
➡️ Consequences of not having a libc
➡️ Building your own malloc()
dassur.ma/things/c-to-webass…
The change is small and subtle, but so great for developer experience 😍. Recent node versions add highlights to the error stacks:
My YouTube music personalized mixtape features:
🎵 Arcade Fire
🎤 Metric
🏯 Crystal Castles
🐶 Sesame Street
As a compiler person, I find this project ridiculously exciting: github.com/CraneStation/cran…
Dependency management is my biggest issue with C/C++. Does anyone know if this is a priority at the spec/committee level?
The version of V8 in the newly released Node 12 is actually newer than what browsers are shipping with💥.
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just published a fairly major update to the conventionalcommits.org specification; my hopes are that we're close to a v1.0.0 of the document.
if you like conventional commit messages (or hate them) feedback is very much appreciated.
This doesn't work the how (my) intuition suggests it should:
npm i --save express --save-dev @types/express
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I've been working on npmjs.com/package/container-… to help bust this idea. No docker needed
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🚀 Today at #GoogleNext19, we are launching Cloud Run.
Allowing you to run any stateless http container in a fully managed environment, paying only for the exact resources you use. 📦☁️
👉 cloud.google.com/run
