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Benjamin Coe
@BenjaminCoe
Co-founded Attachments(dot)me, early employee at @npmjs, maintains yargs and Istanbul, created conventionalcommits.org. Product at @getsentry.
Kitchener, Canada
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Jul 21, 2021
    crypto.randomUUID() is now stable in Chrome 92 \o/ thank you @domenic, @ctavan, @broofa, and many others, for helping advocate for this feature. hope folks enjoy 🎉
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Feb 12, 2017
    got terminal output piping to touchbar using electron, hyper-term, and too much free time. cc: @paulgrock
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Mar 2, 2019
    having joined @npmjs as employee #3, I'm proud to have helped the company grow from 5 to 60 employees. next week I will be joining @JustinBeckwith's team at Google as a DPE. I'm looking forward to continuing to contribute to the future of JavaScript: medium.com/@BenjaminCoe/b…
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Jun 9, 2024
    pushing breaking changes to libraries with 26,000,000 downloads/week ... that haven't been updated in 4 years ... from a plane ✈️! what could possibly go wrong.
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Jan 22, 2022
    just published an early shim of the argument parser intended for Node.js core. tons of people have been contributing (folks from Commander, yargs, npm, IBM, Node.js core), join the conversation 😊 npmjs.com/package/@pkgjs…
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Sep 30, 2019
    inspired by @angular's structured commits, I've been helping edit the "Conventional Commits" spec for several years now; we just released v1.0.0! 🎉 conventionalcommits.org 🎉
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Aug 11, 2018
    I just landed `mkdir -p` functionality in Node's file system API \o/ please play with it and help find edge-cases:
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    fs: implement recursive (mkdirp) functionality by bcoe · Pull Request #21875 · nodejs/node
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Oct 11, 2018
    oh hey! Node 10.12.0 which went live yesterday has support for recursive mkdir (mkdirp) \o/
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Sep 20, 2018
    “Rethinking JavaScript Test Coverage”
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    Rethinking JavaScript Test Coverage
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Jan 10, 2020
    the service my team at Google uses for managing npm publications in large organizations has been open-sourced 🎉 It handles 2FA for you, so that you don't need to turn it off in automation. many folks contributed: @JustinBeckwith, @soldair, @ofrobots
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    Wombat Dressing Room, an npm publication proxy on GCP
    I'm excited to announce that we're open sourcing the service we use on the Google Cloud Client Libraries team for handling npm publications, it's called Wombat Dressing Room. Wombat Dressing Room...
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Oct 12, 2017
    I think you've got this backwards -- your company has raised $80M and is on track to an IPO. Companies like you need to set an example by contributing money and developers to the open-source projects you rely on.
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Feb 15, 2016
    I wrote a post about bringing open source practices to the Enterprise, using @travisci, @CoverallsApp, and @github: blog.npmjs.org/post/139373244…
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Dec 4, 2015
    now that Apple is into the whole "open source" thing, could someone submit a patch that gets rid of .DS_Store?
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    Benjamin Coe
    @BenjaminCoe
    Feb 25, 2020
    recently we've been working on adding source map support to Node.js, to better support alternate flavors of JavaScript (like TypeScript): medium.com/@nodejs/source…
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