Evert Pot

A consistent(ish) NPM dependency graph: www.vlt.io/blog/consist... In which @evertpot.com explains how we re-order NPM's replication log to give a more consistent dependency graph.

our design engineer jason (or is it json?) took every detail of our benchmarks site and made it between 100-1000x* better *on the luke scale of "this rocks"

I missed my blog's 20th birthday 😭 . Guess ill wait for 25 to celebrate

/me looking up the lyrics to twinkle twinkle little star

Stack Overflow prepares for a rapid influx of questions about the PHP security vulnerability and gets 3, closes 2. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/440576/

This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

Why is it still so hard in Spotify to see some metadata about tracks. I'm curious about release years all the time

It's weird that covid is longer ago than all of high school took. Those 2 durations feel so different

After the firefighting is done (and a nap) we'll need to have a long, serious conversation about the state of non-browser non-platform X.509 verifiers. The Linux status quo is "a pile of PEM files behind a dumpster" and that's not an acceptable excuse for a root store in 2026.

I've definitely been sleeping on this Röyksopp album, dang. (Lost Tapes) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1STRyblIHpXAs0W6pdlt6t?si=HEvD-UoPT1KmjL6ICJpGlA

RAM is the new bottleneck. Every Node.js process is fighting for memory: containers, serverless, cloud bills, k8s limits. And here's the maddening part: V8 can use half the memory with one flag, and almost nobody turns it on.

bro you seem a bit intellectually incurious today is everything alright

#msdos #retrocomputing Poll: https://indieweb.social/@evert/117429829940850198

Just heard a dad tell his 2 year old they'll 'circle back' to the currently occupied seesaw

When I read 'coderabbitai' I 100% of the time read 'coderabbi'

After ~25 years or so, i think it's time for a new 'main' password. Anyone have a good suggestion?

Burying the lead a bit, Deno and JSR are dead. Not a total shocker and glad everyone got new jobs. Props on navigating a probably difficult time

ESLint jumped in install size by 2MB recently from a basic dependency update. Here's a short thread of the observations 🧵

on the ⚡️ @vlt.io ⚡️ registry we serve metadata that is 70% smaller which is one reason (out of many!) that we're able to do clean installs in 20-70% less time when you point to our registry vs npmjs.org. i wrote about how we did it:

I've called this the 'The Kobayashi Maru' interview question for programmers. There's no "right" answer only painful trade-offs which makes it very revealing.

I guess that fan on the pi 5 was good for something after all

Welcome to today's episode of.. 'Why is this wet?'

Meshtastic is neat! Look at all those Toronto nodes.

There's a kid on the playground named Diablo. New one for me. I wonder if they googled the meaning

Doing some Google Cloud stuff after years of mostly AWS. Seems like their UI has gotten a bit better! AWS is still terrible, but GCP used to be worse.

Almost had to fill in a missing minor report today. #FatherOfTheYear

My Sony TV was getting slow, and I was able to turn on developer mode and use adb to find bad behaving apps and uninstall them. Recommended!

Installed some quiet fans in the mikrotik switch. Peace has returned. #homelab #mikrotik #noctua

notion could be so nice if they weren't so cavalier with ux expectations and break things that should just work like copy-paste. good feature set but bad taste.