I'm a freelance software engineer specializing in web development. I enjoy learning, building new things, and deconstructing existing things to see how they work. I like to find the good, true, and the beautiful, and find out what other people think of the same.
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Again and again and again, I've been gaslight and downplayed by frameworkists high on the fumes of always-false marketing claims by Facebook/VC-backed hucksters. We're a dozen+ years into the lost decade, and it absolutely guts me that I'm hearing folks in meetings still sell themselves and each other on the idea that the *next* great scheduling trick will fix a problem that boils down to 10 gallons of JavaScript bullshit in a 5 gallon hat.
The answer is (still) *less JavaScript*.
Upcoming npm v12 will disable preinstall, install, and postinstall scripts from dependencies unless allow-listed.
You can prepare for this change using npm v11 now: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/198547
Hi everyone — sharing this so maintainers, application developers, and CI operators have time to prepare for behavioral changes landing in npm v12 (estimated July 2026). Everything below is already...
Node:test and bump
You'll find out when you get into it that you have to. It's the right thing to do.
@localnerve/csp-hashes gets a full 100 boat on socket.dev 🙌
Fwiw, I made my dev container public. If you're a nodejs, Golang, GitHub Dev, might be handy.
https://GitHub.com/localnerve/dev-container
Gcm inmem cache storage based, dflt 30 day expiry. Season to taste via parameter.
Multiple projects, nodejs, Golang versions support. Season to taste via parameter.
Ide agnostic: Attach to the running container.
Microsoft dev container based.
Stay safe.
This 127 line text document captures what happened when Gemini decided to recommend css-in-js as a solution to me.
https://github.com/localnerve/jam-build/blob/main/docs/front-end.md
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