John-David Dalton (@jdalton) / X

John-David Dalton

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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.

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
Apr 17, 2024
Lodash turns 12 this month 🎉 • 12.5 🅱️illion npm downloads • 500+ Ⓜ️illion and growing monthly npm+cdn downloads
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Sep 21, 2023
I’m so into @SocketSecurity as a way to improve signal to noise. The npm security has been a big mess. Big time props to them 👏
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Apr 18, 2024
I started contributing to Benchmark.js with @mathias 14yrs ago when the status quo was a lib that took the best of 3 runs of a snippet. We've come a long way since then. I would love to point to something modern that works in Node and browsers (doesn't have to be the same
colinhacks
@colinhacks
Apr 17, 2024
the benchmark.js repo was archived last week 🫡
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Apr 18, 2024
I'm this old
Vincent Voyer
@vvoyer
Apr 18, 2024
If you recognize this, you are old.
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Mar 29, 2024
"I patched the bytecode generation of intrinsics to support being passed as arguments to other intrinsics" is not something I thought I'd ever say and yet here we are. Being able to craft JS by way of C++ and zig is super empowering.
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Apr 17, 2024
Replying to @wesleytodd and @getifyX
Numbers go up, but it’s month to month and year to year is also increasing. I think it’s gotta be the ecosystem itself is growing.
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Oct 5, 2022
This 🧵 about Mario’s dump 🛻 is ✨
Fir
@SimplyFir
Oct 4, 2022
Remember what they took from us
John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Mar 20, 2024
Replying to @darcy @izs and @ruyadorno
Congrats 🎉
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John-David Dalton
@jdalton
Apr 18, 2024
Replying to @yagiznizipli @colinhacks and @p_insogna
Yes please. Looking for a good replacement. I made Benchmark.js back when the status quo was to just run a code chunk 3 times and take the best time. Would love something to point to that works in Node and browsers.
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