Feross   

@feross

Mad scientist • Open source author • () • () • () • ()

San Francisco, CA
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Joined August 2008
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    Aug 9

    Do you use my open source software at work? I now offer an open source support contract. - 4 hours of consulting (development, bug fixes, etc.) per month - Email support - Company logo on readmes + website (~180K views/mo) - Priority GitHub issues 🌟

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  2. 2 hours ago

    More evidence that anti-virus is often as bad as the problem it tries to solve: Kaspersky anti-virus injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode. They've been doing this for the past 4 years.

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  3. Aug 20

    "The last 30 or so years have been a lopsided tale of OSS creating a lot of value and SaaS capturing most of it."

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    Aug 20

    MacOS CLI trick: The `say` command will text-to-speech whatever you pass. This is handy for notifying you after a long process. npm run build && say done

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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 20

    There's a difference between essential complexity and incidental complexity. breaks it down on the topic of tooling 👇

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  6. Retweeted
    Aug 19

    We now have a Discord server. Come chat with the maintainers, ask questions, and get help from the community! Join here: (We're also on IRC at (Freenode) and it's linked to the Discord.)

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  7. Retweeted
    Aug 19

    Apple accidentally unpatched a bug it had already fixed and now all up-to-date iPhones are vulnerable to hackers and there's a working jailbreak sitting on Github as we speak

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  8. Retweeted
    Aug 19

    PHP was a lot of fun. Easy to deploy and easy to debug.

    I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes I miss PHP. Over 20 years later, and still nobody's even come _close_ to PHP's ease of deployment. This tweet brought to you by the 3 programming languages and 5 Docker images I need just to run one app.
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  9. Retweeted
    Aug 19

    ✨ Standard 14 is released! ✨ - Support ES 2019 - 23 new rules to catch bugs and make your code clearer! - Lint *.mjs and *.cjs files automatically - Better git ignore support - Remove bundle.js from default ignored files Read the change log: 🌟🌟🌟

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    Aug 19

    We now have a Discord server. Come chat with the maintainers, ask questions, and get help from the community! Join here: (We're also on IRC at (Freenode) and it's linked to the Discord.)

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  11. Aug 19

    When the Wi-Fi captive portal chooses the wrong time to ask you to accept Terms & Conditions again...

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  12. Aug 19

    "Dear fellow engineers, please take this build hiccup as an opportunity to explain to your particular business people that their entire intellectual property is a thin layer on top of a shaky foundation of open-source code lazily maintained by hobbyists"

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  13. Aug 19

    I love this page on 's site where they credit all of the open source libraries they use. The chiptune and retro aesthetic is cute

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  14. Retweeted
    Aug 18

    Yeah, this wins the slam dunk contest.

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  15. Aug 18

    If other, please say what you use in the replies.

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  16. Aug 18

    Mac users: What terminal app do you use?

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    Aug 18

    “Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. (...) You get what you repeat.”

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  18. Aug 18

    Down to 600 unread GitHub notification emails! 🎉 Also, the next version of `standard` is going to be excellent. There's a beta out now!

    Not many left to go... Down to 700 unread GitHub notification emails! 🎉
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    Aug 15

    Stripe is going to start paying for carbon sequestration:

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  20. Aug 17

    Taxonomy of programming paradigms

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  21. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    when UI design was interesting: never forget

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