I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory

[davidgl]

https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558

[isoprophlex]

Look i enjoy pissing on npm packages just as much as the next brogramming hipster but...

'imagine if the car you drove to work had more than 291 parts'

Well... Imagine it has less than that number of parts!

Or imagine an apple containing less than that many distinct chemical substances!

Not the best example...

[nkrisc → isoprophlex]

I think the fact that both of these are terrible examples is part of the joke. They have so little to do with making the point the author wants to make (satirically) that they're almost a non sequitur.

[isoprophlex → nkrisc]

Ha! Thanks ... I'm so dense I didn't get that, I actually believed there's a guy fiery bitmap in all those packages

This is some quality satire, haha

[slavik81 → isoprophlex]

Well, there wasn't when the article was written, but... https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/f36d07d30334f86412a9d277...

(it was removed before the next release)

[nkrisc → slavik81]

Oh, wow. I guess satire isn't satire if it isn't a little bit true.

[slavik81 → nkrisc]

Just to be clear, it wasn't in any releases. It was added in response to this article.

[robinduckett → isoprophlex]

Yeah I read this and raised an eyebrow. Imagine having this many bones in your body >.>

[Tajnymag]

An important note for many: this article is a satire, meant as a joke making fun of all the other similar posts

[whalesalad]

The capitalization treatment in the title of the post (not just here in HN) is like nails on a chalkboard.

[bassman9000]

Glimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help menu.

Nice.

[rafaelvasco]

Even if it is a satire, there would be no satire in the first place if it weren't at least partially true.

[m4r35n357]

Yeah, you want to watch out for those "rouge" developers!

[Tomte]

Fascinating to see all those attempts to count the number of dependencies (including calling the man page), but why include this in the post?

[BossingAround → Tomte]

It's a satire... The whole post is a satire. Just read on, it gets more and more ridiculous. Of course it's all made up.

[Tomte → BossingAround]

Ah, thanks. I guess I've read so much about the JavaScript ecosystem that I didn't doubt it.

[bouke]

Author is complaining about Ember having "glimmer" as a dependency and not knowing what it does, however the author is searching github/google for the term "glitter".

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Article from 2016