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by rootlocus 366 days ago
> Most of my open source work followed Unix philosophy, so the packages did one thing at a time. There was 350+ of them.

The man page for a unix binary is at least two orders of magnitude larger. At some point, the "Unix philosophy" doesn't make sense anymore. I mean, it couldn't even rightpad.

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When the metadata for the package is larger than the source code you've probably gone too small!
packages like `left-pad` should really be named more like `resume-pad`

oh look at me, 589 published packages on npm! with 5 700 quadripillion weekly installs!