John-David Dalton

@jdalton

Lodash creator • sometimes TC39 delegate • protecting supply chains at Socket.dev • Ex (Bun, Salesforce, Node core, Electron WG, Microsoft)

Own Opinions, Population Me.

github.com/jdalton

Joined April 2008

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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Mar 31
Along with the blog post there's a recording of the interview. Listen to the full interview OR the last 10 minutes (linked) → youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWx6s…
OpenJS Foundation
@openjsf
Mar 31
Lodash gets 100M+ downloads a day. For years, it was primarily maintained by one person: @jdalton Then life happened. He stepped back. Now Lodash is entering a new phase with shared governance and support from the OpenJS Foundation. Big reminder: Open source isn’t just
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Oct 1
Reminds me to make lint rules to avoid these values
Patrick Smith
@patrickgwsmith
Sep 30
TIL
John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Oct 1
It would be a shame if @_pi0_ made upm faster
GIF
jdx
@jdxcode
Sep 30
@jdalton and i have been making aube even faster benchmarks.vlt.sh/#/package-mana…
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Oct 1
With AI issues only works, or you can have bots help (like pnpm). For single maintainers I like just plucking issues off. There should be a way to donate tokens based on perceived issue resolution cost. Then maintainer can handle it and contributor contributes tokens
SWC
@swc_rs
Oct 1
Due to AI-generated pull requests, we’re no longer accepting external PRs. We’re sorry for the change and appreciate your understanding.
John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Oct 1
Very cool
Rob Palmer
@robpalmer2
Sep 30
ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @acutmore from @TechAtBloomberg on advancing the Composites proposal to Stage 2 at @TC39 today 🎉 Composites are objects that are compared by value instead of identity. They are an evolution of Record & Tuple proposal.