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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

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[–] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A really good lesson on offline backups of things like issue trackers, though.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

when I first did this for a project a couple of years ago, the github api endpoint for this sucked extremely bad. I no longer remember all the details but it was something like 3 different sets of things you had to get to make sure you had somewhat of a full picture. might be better these days. and even then it's still only the first piece in the puzzle

but yeah, by and large a rather extreme percentage of the modern industry is extremely dependent on a vary narrow scope of SPoFs, and may are clueless about how to even approach this. 2 decades of computer-renting, yay!

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