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vladkens

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Actually, my problem is not really with NPM itself or the fact that it can be hacked, but with the damn auto-update policy of software – as users we usually have no idea which versions are installed, and there is even no way to roll back to a safe version.

All these Chrome, VSCode, Discord, Electron-apps, browser extensions, etc – they all update ± every week, and I can't even tell what features are being added. For comparison, Sublime updates once a YEAR and I'm totally fine with that.

Honestly, I don't even know what you're talking about – I don't have anything like that. Maybe it can be changed in the settings?

I agree that there are too many dependencies in Rust. I support the idea of adding some of the more popular crates to std. Many applications use something like tracing, tracing-subscriber, and basic server/client functionality. It would be great to have simple, minimal-feature implementations of these in std — similar to how Go does it. If someone needs a more complex system, they can still use an external crate, but having basic building blocks in std would really help.

Hi. The project looks promising. Haven't tested it yet, but I want to try it together with Playwright to speed up tests in CI and some scrapping tools. I will keep an eye on the project. Best of luck to you!

Hi. The blog looks good. A few things to make it better:

1) You can use watchexec https://watchexec.github.io/ to live reload during development. 2) Also, please add a clickable image preview (you can use this lib for example https://github.com/francoischalifour/medium-zoom) 3) No commenting feature, luckily I found your post here on HN. But it would be better to have comment blocks, like from https://giscus.app/ or just a link where readers can comment. 4) No RSS feed. I'd like to subscribe to your updates, but there is no such option right now. RSS is one of the points why site generators are used for static blogs (e.g. Hugo, Zola, Astro, etc.)

Hi. I've been working on this open-source projects last time:

ghstats[1] - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)

macmon[2] - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)

ecloop[3] - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)

[1] https://github.com/vladkens/ghstats

[2] https://github.com/vladkens/macmon

[3] https://github.com/vladkens/ecloop