Benjamin Coe
@BenjaminCoe
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Co-founded Attachments(dot)me, early employee at @npmjs , maintains yargs and Istanbul, created . Product at @getsentry .
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got terminal output piping to touchbar using electron, hyper-term, and too much free time. cc:
@paulgrock
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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:
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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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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 😊
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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!
🎉 🎉
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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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oh hey! Node 10.12.0 which went live yesterday has support for recursive mkdir (mkdirp) \o/
Surprised I'm not seeing more cheering on Twitter for
@nodejs
finally releasing a version (10.12.0) with recursive fs.mkdir() and fs.mkdirSync(). Solid contribution from
@BenjaminCoe
.
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“Rethinking JavaScript Test Coverage”
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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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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.
@BenjaminCoe
In
#Hacktoberfest
2016, Yargs was translated into 18 languages 😵. Any interest in helping us this year?
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I wrote a post about bringing open source practices to the Enterprise, using
@travisci
,
@CoverallsApp
, and
@github
:
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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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recently we've been working on adding source map support to Node.js, to better support alternate flavors of JavaScript (like TypeScript):
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no, I'm not going to patch a 3-year-old version of a library, because someone opened a CVE for a command line argument parser.
Can we figure out another way to monetize open-source please, thanks bye.
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@CollinEstes
I heard a rumor that NASA uses Node.js for space-suits. I'm curious, do you use the npm ecosystem to develop these apps?
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today was my first day at
@getsentry
🎉
I'll be working on their performance product as a senior product manager.
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would you like to start contributing to Node.js? do you have a Windows computer? we could use your help making tests more stable:
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chromium's native coverage is now working on Node.js' own test suite \o/
this was a big project for me in 2019; thanks to
@schuay
,
@hashseed
,
@mlippautz
,
@addaleax
,
@joyeecheung
and others.
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Oh hey! initial source map support for stack traces is in Node
@12
.12.0, enable it with:
--enable-source-maps
Help us make it better here:
nvm install 12.12.0
Thanks
@BridgeAR
and the cast of
@nodejs
thousands that made this release possible.
I'm especially excited about `--source-map-support`. Thanks,
@BenjaminCoe
!
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I've been scratching my head trying to think what, if any, support for Source Maps should be added to Node.js, please join the conversation:
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how my team at Google handles releases for 300+ open-source libraries each month:
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people of HackerNews, let me clarify something; npm is 25 folks who care a ton about OS and the js-community, not a shadowy corporate tyrant
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pretty reporting using Node 10.10.0's built in test coverage, post coming soon
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I'm making progress on my first product feature at
@getsentry
- Cache Monitoring 💫
Do you use Sentry for application monitoring?
Does your application use caches?
I'd love your feedback:
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public service announcement for the Internet: open-source software is made by real people, in their spare time.
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wrote a post about enforcing JavaScript code coverage, using nothing but GitHub Actions:
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this Istanbul report was generated in Node.js using the native coverage support
@schuay
and I have been working on in Chromium. I'm pretty excited about how close we're getting to a working prototype.
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this is bound to be a somewhat controversial conversation, but I'm very excited about the potential of wildly popular modules like rimraf, or uuid, occasionally being pulled into the platform:
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I just open-sourced a proxy for simulating bad Internet connections:
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Today was my last day at Google. Overall, it was a good experience. I especially appreciated the opportunity to grow as an engineering manager.
I'll share news about my new gig soon ☺️
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I created this flow-chart to help API developers better understand Google deprecation notices:
http://t.co/cYwMrLtFZF
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as of today you can run the npm website behind your firewall \o/ so excited about this
http://t.co/xUbHc9pgln
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this is my favorite meme to share with fellow developers, here's why:
- programming requires life long learning. it's okay if you sometimes feel like this very good boy.
- it normalizes the fact that *even* senior developers often feel this way.
- it's a cute dog wearing a tie.
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excited to see that WebKit landing crypto.randomUUID() 🎉
thanks for the support
@chris_dumez
😊
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landed my first pull request in
@v8js
🎉 it adds test coverage support for || and &&. Thanks
@schuay
and
@rossmcilroy
and
@marjakh
for your support
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the longer I work in the software industry, the more I realize that the entire world is held up by millions of load-bearing regexes.
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last night
@nodejs
coverage build used V8's built in coverage \o/
this is a culmination of months of work, thanks to
@hashseed
@schuay
,
@mhdawson1
and others for patience with me.
there are still lots of bugs to fix, let me know if you want to help.
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guess which Canadian, who's turning 38 this week no less, got their first V10 in 5 years ☺️
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it was an awesome experience to PM the new npm Enterprise product. It's the spiritual successor to our on-premises product (which was my first project at
@npmjs
5 years ago).
big thanks to all the amazing engineers at npm, Inc that made it possible.
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I wrote an article about how I think
@nodejs
' LTS release schedule relates to package maintainers:
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was up late last night waiting for our adoppted puppy to be flown in from a rescue we were working with.
say hello to Finn:
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with JavaScript, through the popularity of TypeScript, babel, etc., becoming more and more a transpiled language, let's start talking about building source map support into runtimes:
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accidentally hired
@lyft
for security audit rather than
@LiftSecurity
. Servers are currently being driven through Hayes Valley by ex-barista
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just published a fairly major update to the specification; my hopes are that we're close to a v1.0.0 of the document.
if you like conventional commit messages (or hate them) feedback is very much appreciated.
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the amazing team I mentored at
@HackIllinois
built a tool for reporting Istanbul test coverage from a headless Chrome -- folks are going to use the heck out of this.
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reverse search (ctrl + r) in the terminal is the lazy developer's best friend.
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looking for full-stack severless developers with 10 years of deno experience.
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after the Mortal Combat tournament, Sub Zero became a small town chiropractor:
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my bot that tweets npm publishes just got a DMCA notice, if that's not copyright law run amuck I don't know what is:
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Would love people's feedback, regarding the addition of a minimal command-line argument parser to Node.js:
There's a chance it lands early in the lifetime of Node v18:
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This week in Hacker News "Monoids, Functors, Applicatives, and Monads" or "why the developer over in that corner has never shipped anything"
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Oakland, you're great; viewed in 40' font on my way to climbing gym:
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made a GitHub action that applies labels based on Conventional Commit messages:
pairs nicely with GitHub's new release notes beta🍷🍕
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crypto.randomUUID is now implemented in Firefox, thanks for
@cpeterso
🎉
Chris Peterson - Implement crypto.randomUUID(). r=keeler,nika - ...
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every time I attempt to write a moderately "edgy" tweet, I immediately regret it and delete it.
mark my words, one of these days I'll manage to squash my friendly Canadian demeanor.
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@ThisIsMissEm
they were early on, and when we migrated the registry to no longer be case sensitive, we left the colliding package names alone.
At least this is my recollection.
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I gave a talk at Node+JS interactive on how code coverage works in Node.js:
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woo-hoo randomUUID is landed in the Web Cryptography editor's draft 🎉
it's been a fun experience learning how a new method is born.
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my favorite bash fact, which I think
@izs
introduced me to, is that '[' is a program:
$ which [
/usr/bin/[
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this *almost 38 year old* placed 6th in a bouldering competition, in a field of 50 \o/
Having a great summer concentrating on my health 🏋️
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I apply for jobs and tell them I'm Node certified, but they never callback().
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today would have been
@CambiEvers
’ 35th birthday. I don’t know how the universe works, but I hope she’s up to something fun somewhere.
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received a recruiter email addressed to "Alex", thought I'd have some fun:
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just released yargs v17 🏴☠️
Along with dropping Node 10, it includes a 5 month overhaul of how asynchronous commands are handled.
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painted our music and tv room yesterday. we're going for a victorian-tech-house
vibe 😊
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I've been doing similar work for Google's Node.js libraries for the past several years. I love the work and the people.
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excited to release an update to
@npmjs
that adds
support for JSX and
@typescriptlang
when rendering READMEs \o/
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@matteocollina
@nodejs
I feel that everyone is trying to get a handle on what an appropriate tool chain looks like for ESM.
I've found the Jest folks quite responsive on GitHub, might be worth trying to loop them in about the issues.
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I'm excited to speak at OpenJS World 2021 tomorrow, about migrating yargs to ESM
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do you use nyc and Istanbul for code-coverage, want to get involved in a popular open-source project? we're looking for helping hands.
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practiced multi-pitch skills and climbed some lovely routes at Mt. St. Helena today:
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The first few photos came back from
@CambiEvers
and my wedding on Friday, what an awesome day:
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I've been working on a formal grammar/parser for "Conventional Commit" messages with
@wesleytodd
and
@cedricvanputten
.
It's some of the most fun I've had working on open-source:
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Node.js friends 🐢🚀
If you're performing background tasks in your application, what queue technologies / libraries do you reach for?
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startup idea: strew IoT connected roller blades throughout the Bay Area; accepting serious investment offers.
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for our Noogler project,
@LaylaSells_cshs
and I worked on an arcade game for Next; it was a blast \o/
At
#GoogleNext19
? Come play at the
@instruqt
Arcade! We have
#Kubernetes
,
#BigQuery
,
#Storage
,
#Serverless
and
#MachineLearning
games!
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congrats on a first contribution to Node.js, and a significant one 🎉
Node now has an fs.rm() method that I helped make, along with
@BenjaminCoe
and the Node Tooling Group. Exciting to see this released!
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Breaking News: while raising 100M, under presumably wonderful terms, Github forgets to ask
@HackerNews
community for advice on decision.
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I spend an increasing percentage of my time writing bash scripts... my models suggest it will be 100% by 2025.
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Scooter came along yesterday to spread his loving owner
@CambiEvers
’ ashes with close family and friends:
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that realization that the TC39 proposal you didn't fully understand 6 months ago, you *need right now!*
this would cleanup the cache I'm writing for source maps in Node core immensely.
CC:
@_gsathya
,
@littledan
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framed a bunch of my art today; I’ve been killing it at adulting the past several weeks:
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over the past few years, yargs has slowly become one of the most popular tools for writing command-line applications in Node.js. I'm really excited about yargs v10 which overhauls positional arguments, and will be released within the next week.
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