Colin Dean

@colindean
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Bon vivant, scholar, champion of the oppressed. Software engineer and community builder. My words are my own. Quotes and boosts are not necessarily my views, but something I want followers to see. Soms toot ik in Nederlands.
Websitehttps://cad.cx
Codehttps://github.com/colindean
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My wife just asked me if Github was a tech version of Pornhub and I didn't have an adequate argument that it wasn't
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble, you might fall

Spreadsheets, but for people who use CSV and Ctrl+C 😍

"Sheets", a terminal based spreadsheet tool by @maaslalani

Check out the demo, this is pretty amazing!

https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

Tired: %d/%m/%Y and %m/%/%Y tattoos

Wired: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z tattoos

One of the strengths of Homebrew, despite it being unpopular, is being willing to break backwards compatibility when necessary.

NPM’s unwillingness to do so reflects GitHub’s: both show excessive caution that harm both security and usability.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/31/npms-defaults-are-bad.html

npm’s Defaults Are Bad

The npm client’s default settings are a root cause of JavaScript’s recurring supply chain security problems.

Andrew Nesbitt
Ocean Avenue is just so classic pop punk

I clearly need to start a wall of “trusted publishing would have prevented this” incidents

Edit: but not axios, maybe! Looks like that one may be full maintainer account compromise.

@colindean
It's OK, cats can ignore us in pretty much any language.