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The modern JS ecosystem is basically a magic eye painting where you need to know how to squint to see the layers below the abstraction, otherwise the whole thing unravels when something goes awry
Jon Church
@jonchurch
maintaining express, lodash / ex-msft
- Delving 😉 into this a bit, and apparently the LLM ticks are still an open research question! Ive seen the theory about “Nigerian business english” leaking in via RLHF, but apparently researchers in general still arent sure how these ticks arise within models!Recently I’ve noticed Claude using strange keywords like “seam” and “chrome.” It’s getting worse. It writes great code and understands its own language well, but they’re becoming barely human-readable. I hope it’s just a glitch, but it looks suspiciously like vendor lock-in.
- 661 Billion now just 2 years laterJust updated a very old spreadsheet. npm is serving over 260 billion downloads per month. I remember how excited we were to cross 100 million, way back at the start of this graph.
- May was another record breaking month for total downloads on the npm registry overall. 661 billion total monthly downloads, up 4.8% from last month. The insane March +35% increase hasn’t yet meaningfully regressed
- This is available in English now! The web has changed a lot, but so much hasn't, and it's still connecting people around the world <3 yusukebe.github.io/webservice-one…たまに擦るけど、僕が以前作ったこの資料と考え方はすごくいいです。 1日でわかるWebサービス制作の全て ～企画から実装まで～ yusukebe.github.io/webservice-one…
