The Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book

Especially as he mentioned the Unix Philosophy:

> [...], try to remember the Unix Philosphy [sic] and break it down into tiny parts that go well together, this way it's going to be way easier to initially release it and maintain it in the future.

Can you 'npm i -g curljs' yet?

Well, as you say, it IS javascriptjanuary.com, but I was more put off by the fact it seems it'd be nicer as this:

  node -e "require('https').get(url, b => b.pipe(process.stdout)))" > README.md

rather than this:

  node -e require('https').get(url, b => b.on('data', c => process.stdout.write(c+'')))" > README.md

(and also that there's a typo with the quoting at the beginning).

Honestly, as an engineer that enjoys using JS and often writes cute little scripts using Node.js I fully agree that curl seems like a much better fit here.

This tracks with the current trend in Open Source, Libraries and Tool-kits are open but Finished Software is not. This is the primary motivation for the opposition of GPL and other copy left licenses in favor of non-copy left so they can insure the "open" code can be locked down in the final consumer product

Sad really that Open Source has diverged so much with Free Software..

Sometimes you don't want to engage in a battle, or raise an army of the undead.

Sometimes you just want your tower swept and mopped.

It shouldn't be that hard, either

I write some words in an unpronounceable, inhuman tongue. I speak these words to a special stone covered in tiny, intricate runes too small for the eye to see and animated by bottled lightning. If either the words are the runes are off by even a single stroke, then nothing happens.

But if I get it exactly right, then I can see through eyes which are not my own. I can communicate across countless leagues as easily as across the room. I can bind daemons to watch over the world around me and act on my behalf. I can gaze with godlike clarity over the past, and even discern shapes and motions in the clouds of the future. I can bind my work to an inanimate physical object and give it false life under my command.

We teach these Arts to small children, and often use them to show how cute our pets are to one another. It's so easy and so commonplace in our world that we've ceased to register it as Strange. But computers still let us do real, honest to goodness Magick and anyone who tells you differently isn't paying attention.

Illusion magic: Game programming

Evocation: Cracking/pentesting

Abjuration: Cybersecurity

Conjuration: UI programming

Divination: Data science/forecasting

Transmutation: Backend developer

Necromancy: Sysadmin

Enchantment: Facebook/Google/Amazon/ad industry

To answer your question, probably Gamergate.

In an article about maintaining an open source project, it seems to me like covering contribution guidelines (which I would consider a CoC to be part of) is pretty important.

In my experience, many projects maintain codes of conduct not because they've had frequent problems, but as a statement that the maintainers welcome contributors from all backgrounds, skill/experience levels, etc., and that they won't tolerate behavior that alienates others.

Regardless, every project has some sort of CoC, even if it is never explicitly stated. Putting it in writing makes it clear to everyone (including the maintainers), and that seems like a good thing to me.

I agree the whole thing is just plain silly. I don't need a CoC to be a decent human being. I am an adult and don't need a code of conduct on how to behave.

I think you're mistaken. Before Node.js, people distributed programs in the back of magazines and users copied them onto their punch cards. They were dark times.

Also: Source Mage Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Mage