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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by rootlocus on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:55AM (#44246233)
> Most of my open source work followed Unix philosophy, so the packages did one thing at a time. There was 350+ of them.

The man page for a unix binary is at least two orders of magnitude larger. At some point, the "Unix philosophy" doesn't make sense anymore. I mean, it couldn't even rightpad.

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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by another-dave on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:19AM (#44246384)
When the metadata for the package is larger than the source code you've probably gone too small!
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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by baobabKoodaa on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:04AM (#44246282)
packages like `left-pad` should really be named more like `resume-pad`

oh look at me, 589 published packages on npm! with 5 700 quadripillion weekly installs!

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