mael.dev
aka arcanis on GitHub. Lead maintainer for @yarnpkg.dev 🧶, staff FE DevX Datadog, ex Facebook, ex Sketchfab. Sharing my life with my wife, two sons, two cats, and three hundred side projects 📦
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Those layoffs don't make any sense, those companies should be ashamed of themselves. Wishing you all the best.
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Yarn may be a good example for that; we use colors a lot to convey data types: yarnpkg.com/blog#improve...
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You know, what I really don't understand is that you're saying "no, this thing doesn't work, it provides no value" to people who clearly think they already got value out of it. I fully believe *you* didn't see value, but going so far as to invalidate other people's opinion is a little extreme.
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Only a Sith deals in absolutes 🤷♀️
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No, the argument rather is that "this thing doesn't have a 100% success rate ergo it's useless" doesn't seem a great argument in a field where pretty much everything is an approximation at various degrees.
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Datadog never sleeps 🙂 let me know if you're interested in one of our positions careers.datadoghq.com/all-jobs/?ti...
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Whereas we *never* saw Google Search get the search results wrong, lucky for us
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I tried reading the Farseer trilogy again not long ago but grew super frustrated with the main character and his absolute lack of communication skills 😫
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I'm a fantasy fan but I'm rather going to add the one SF series I love to the list: Gaunt's Ghosts, from Warhammer 40k. Dan Abnett is a master at writing human characters and making us feel their hopes and despairs.
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I felt so betrayed; the Elenium was written years after their conviction, so it seems they never cared to right their wrongs. And they successfully erased this part of their biography until their death. People only found out after stumbling upon old digitalized newspapers.
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I loved D&L Eddings when I was young. A couple of years ago I re-read the book and was surprised to see the heroes doing some casual child abuse in the Elenium series. After digging a bit I discovered D&L had both been convicted of physical child abuse IRL. Tarnished my memories real quick 😔
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Sometimes doing less is doing more 😄
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I can get behind that
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Oh, the infamous "This is the npm RFC process, not the "all JavaScript package managers" RFC process" RFC 🥴
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Couple of years ago I was thinking about something similar, but there weren't enough use cases at the time github.com/yarnpkg/berr...
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We have a content addressable cache when linking in pnpm mode github.com/yarnpkg/berr...
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That's what we use to support transparent zipped vendors, but the abstraction can be used for a variety of purposes (we also use it to abstract paths across systems).
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Not sure if that can help, but Yarn has a solid virtual filesystem implementation already used in production apps: github.com/yarnpkg/berr...
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Is it a native impl, or a js "mock"?
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No indeed
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Does it have a wasm build? Otherwise afaik stackblitz merely mocks the Node.js internal C bindings with Javascript, so there isn't a vm to run native code.
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I wonder - shouldn't ai tools be integrated into the live ide? You can't prevent their use? Make it part of the evaluation.
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Two kids did that to me! Now I spend this time on Legos, Minecraft, and running around putting out fires 😅
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Been there, done that .. the rabbit hole goes deep 😄
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I think Python is too mainstream to not get hate, whatever the reason (package management? 2 vs 3? etc). I'd go with Lua - afaik everyone kind agree it's perfect for its niche.
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Exactly that. We used to have a workflow to run CI checks against issues, but having to post statuses as comments was clunky: github.com/arcanis/sher...
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I want status checks on issues, not just PRs 😟
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This is for local development, of course. One published well-written packages should work regardless of the package manager of the consumers (but Corepack doesn't change anything to that).
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What would make a package manager different from any other tool? It's a dependency like any other, it only makes sense to have it locked like any other.
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It's a valid concern - on the other hand, isn't there a chance it could empower more people to build small side projects and experiments?
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It's still unclear to me how a single security release in four years was a burden, or in how that differs from any other Node.js security release. And if it was that difficult, isn't *that* the issue to solve?
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If 30% of Node.js users stated using Corepack in your surveys, EVEN THOUGH it's experimental, and EVEN THOUGH they need to explicitly enable it, and EVEN THOUGH it faced an impressive wave of FUD, it's probably that there's something that isn't achievable just by having a package on npm.
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Still not sure which Corepack users you're talking about that works rejoice about this. It's fairly clear that the value of Corepack is that it's shipped with Node, otherwise as you say there are other options.
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Instead what was shown is pretty much the opposite, up to the point where the TSC allowed borderline harassement strategies to happen without any public repercussions. It's really a shame.
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I'm afraid you're missing the point. Corepack, as a Node.js project, was both a nice UX, and a way to build a bridge between Node.js and communities that felt second-class citizen. Making *this* project succeed was part of the goal, at least for me.
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Will package managers supporting Corepack keep supporting it if they feel second-class citizen? Or would they just accept Node.js will always be toxic for any package-manager-related discussions and move on?
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I tried to write a Typescript-to-cpp converter; it worked okay-ish, but supporting type inference for the various integer sizes was clunky :(
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Awesome you were able to spend resources on this! Did it start as a side experiment? Or did you commit on it from the start?
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Congrats! I've been hoping to see that happen for so long! Can't say I'm not worried about one particular thing though 🥲 github.com/microsoft/ty...
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The question is whether they'll manage to make our system resilient to malicious agents making their way to a higher position of power. I hope we learn from the US.
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Where is the "Opens an issue without reproduction" arrow? 😛
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Il/elle n'a pas l'air très convaincu par les explications 😁