Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

  • @[email protected]
    49•3 months ago

    Like half of the npm is maintained by a single, arguably awful, person who writes his microprojects into large pieces of software to maximize how often his code gets installed.

      • @nnullzz
        15•3 months ago

        Just looked them up… holy hell. How does one have so many repos! And all the apps he’s made. What’s the story on them?

        Edit: just looked it up myself. Seems to be a well liked person in the open source community. Idk. Regardless, props to them for the work they put in.

      • @[email protected]
        9•3 months ago

        Jon Schlinkert, I believe. Sindre has a lot of stuff as well, but has a better reputation afaik