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- On growing up with a unique name that did not remain unique
- Goodbye, GitHub!
- My Favorite npm Commit
- Let It Go, but only slamming doors
- Do You Believe in God?
- Electrolemon's Sept 21 Videos
- Time Moves Slow (pitch shifted, 1 hour)
- fun proof about infinities
- web tech breakfast club
- Please get vaccinated
- A twitter thread about Flood, by They Might Be Giants
2020 1
2019 5
2018 14
- Will Happen, Happening, Happened - Rebecca Sugar
- Plugin Published: gatsby-remark-tumble-media
- Porting to Gatsby
- via-understanding-your-partners-attachment
- headphones-required
- gadotsdiana-wonder-woman-2017-dir-patty
- tha-boy-literally
- images-that-make-me-feel-some-kind-of-way
- Brussels Sprouts
- Node + JS Foundation
- Bookends
- npm Pride 2018 Shirts
- npm Acquires ^Lift Security and Node Security Platform
- stimmystuffs
2017 10
- webcomicname-reblog-if-you-are-the-offspring-of
- Protect your npm account with two-factor authentication and read-only tokens
- that-scrape-tho-recommended
- Documentation Driven Development
- mark-hamill-excalibur
- Be useful
- announcing free Orgs
- 2jam4u-micdotcom-sportscaster-dale-hansen
- My First npm Publish
- its-arrested-development-you-know-our
2016 32
- Reclaim Red
- On Building Bridges
- Economic Uncertainty
- when-will-you-be-posting-the-notes-from-your
- hello-will-you-be-at-sxsw-austin-tx-at-any-tech
- im-really-curious-about-the-tj-node-js-story-is
- anti-authoritarianism
- Newcomb Programming Languages
- Someone emailed me asking for tips or sites for learning JavaScript, and this is my final answer.
- Plop the Frog
- on cargo shorts
- A final response to the "Tell me why Trump is a fascist". • /r/EnoughTrumpSpam
- they-might-be-giants-played-a-hell-of-a-show-at
- destinyrush-unarmed-black-man-with-hands-up
- Among the Many Hardest Problems in Computer Science Are Such Things As...
- An Aspirational Meditation in 12 Stanzas
- earlpostsaboutwhatever
- justlearningasigo-quietasides-mark-whether
- jonboniver-listen-strange-naked-women-emerging
- he-distinctly-said-to-blave
- how many npm users are there?
- one-person
- dolphandhisactionnips-champagnemanagement-i
- probertson-inside-out
- the-corollary-of-constant-change-is-ignorance
- Promises vs Eventual Values
- Mountains
- on cargo shorts
- ru a gay or what
- NVC and OSS
- hello-there-sadly-the-picture-links-in-this
- re-the-bathtub-analogy-in-your-captioning-at
2015 39
- Togrutan %E3%83%84
- togrutan-ツ
- kyraneko-thewinterotter-kyraneko
- people-get-built-different-we-dont-need-to
- Private Packages for Organizations
- salon-watch-snls-sasheer-zamata-mock-clueless
- Twitter Hearts Killed the Favoriting Star
- jamietheignorantamerican-go-forth-and-educate
- micdotcom-watch-bernie-sanders-what-a
- Phases of Database Love
- so-my-original-goal-was-to-portray-a-society-that
- National Coming Out Day
- how to apologize
- Intent Out, Reality In
- huffingtonpost-watch-this-comedian-skewer
- The Phonetic Troll Alphabet
- npm v3′s approach to node_modules
- Inclusiveness vs. safety in online spaces
- I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Package Manager
- U6QOPA
- kimchicuddles-how-many-partners-is-enough
- greenatlas-you-dont-say-media-double
- and-we-all-grew-socialjusticeprincesses-get
- graceful-restart-requested-louie-trust-the
- Sponsoring Captioning at JSConf 2015
- queennymeria-needle-was-robb-and-bran-and
- yelling-about-feet
- this-is-a-picture-of-my-friend-becky-she-used-to
- FjiGbQ
- Letter to Marshall Rosenberg
- Will (@wbinnssmith) at Atlassian explains why they use npm for front-end packaging
- hunstantonlies-this-has-fucked-with-my-mind
- i-am-16-im-dancing-to-my-favorite-pop-song-at-my
- hey-buzzfeed-i-like-a-lot-of-the-stuff-you-guys
- unamusedsloth-so-many-things-to-ponder-in-bear
- UFRb2g
- A quick and dirty annotation of "Why Women Shouldn't Code"
- emmafrosticle-i-hate-this-asshole-but-i-love
- Maple Old Fashioned Pecan Pie
2014 87
- new-years-is-the-holiday-where-we-celebrate
- X7UhGg
- Iojs
- seldo-i-just-have-something-in-my-eye-shut
- Complicity with Abuse: 101-level Information Social Justice Hobbyists are Dangerously Ignorant Of
- "Code of conduct thoughts" with Anon Mous
- andywarnercomics-in-honor-of-day-of-the-dead
- thevoiceinthevoid-swedebeast
- child-mom-can-you-tell-me-a-bedtime-story-me
- i-have-been-hit-three-of-these-ways-this-is-why
- merlin-indefensible-i-dont-know-how
- pb-and-marceline-is-one-of-the-most-poignant-love
- espruen-an-alternate-universe-where-bruce-wayne
- motivatedslacker-iwill-climb-on-top-of-you-in
- roses-are-pretty
- nyxweaver-grandtrilobyte-eleshnorn
- When @izs is summoned to a GitHub issue bikeshedding npm features
- sanity-schmanity-picking-up-accents-its-not
- meadows-mommy-apersnicketylemon
- fini-mun-dude-check-out-this-shark
- safe-and-sound
- oatmeal-hey-bro-you-got-the-time-yeah
- birdandmoon-dating-isnt-easy-no-matter-who
- raygorartshit-bisexual-frustration-everyone-is
- saga-just-keeps-on-breaking-my-heart
- rnayablanca-little-miss-sunshine-script-gifs
- Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity
- some-newtype-bullshit-every-part-of-this-is
- to-increase-their-capacity-for-consumption
- Why I'm not a "gamer"
- seldo-nateswinehart-being-good-to-each-other
- deansdamnation-thespyandthesoldier
- kateceratops-people-are-giving-wilson-money-to
- I don't see race
- 51DuEg
- Unikitty
- redunderwear-turbomun-there-was-a-glitch-on
- politicallyincorrectwalrus-i-love-the-term
- kaibii-toronjas-i-just-saw-this-on-facebook
- huffposttv-by-m7781-via-deviantart
- a-little-bi-furious-bisexual-community
- ripelypine-my-favourite-part-of-shakespeare
- TqY7gg
- magnoliapearl-konistehdump-70sscifiart
- Supreme Being
- Delusional Pets
- On privilege and power
- For #RoeAt40, all of my favorite pro-choice resources
- chryswatchesgot-chrys-watches-got-x
- /2014/06/OVmQ/
- Lgt
- teamfreesnuggles-sansa-has-been-waiting-for
- Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli
- markruffalo-effervescent-cloudwalker
- Re: Maven is like my girlfriend
- How to install node.js and npm on ubuntu 14.04
- ablogforants-bird-best-loading-gif-ever
- Bj%C3%B6rks mystery misandry
- boomerstarkiller67-star-trek-concept-art
- björks-mystery-misandry
- fuckyeahsoulcaliburcreations-mega-man
- mynameisnatalee-tastefullyoffensive-the-new
- i-made-a-thing-to-help-you-understand-when-you
- carry-on-my-wayward-butt-ch0rdate
- Void
- fakebjorkfacts
- bjorkswig-fuckers
- adaytoromana-this-kinda-makes-me-uncomfortable
- skeletorislove-skeletor-affirmations-by
- merlin-daveshumka-the-slowed-down-vocals
- On Eich.
- laughingsquid-adventure-time-an-art-show
- vintagegal-metropolis-film-poster-by-werner
- Sleep deprivation destroys us, especially at startups
- theghostofyourliess-mens-rights-activists
- being-an-expert-isnt-telling-other-people-what
- shevathegun-callmekitto-seraphatonin-um
- moosestielsaya-this-gif-makes-more-sense-now
- joshuamaysart-illuminated-path-a-fixture-in
- valkyriesvagina-oh-god-what-have-i-done
- JavaScript Capital
- 3
- siperslue-lol-the-dudes-face-as-he-realizes
- Raquel Vélez Joins npm, Inc.
- Raquel Vélez Joins npm, Inc.
- The Next Phase of Node.js
- A member of our community is missing, help find him
2013 40
- npm Blog!
- The Hazards of Consensus
- Cinco Facetime Party Snoozer
- yuireactions-the-rare-striped-izs-spotted-in
- taranamgabata-did-u-know-theres-this-small
- Restart Node.js servers on domain errors: Sensible FUD
- Nudity and Nerdery, On “Not all guys are like that”
- Duty Calling
- On Patriarchy and Homophobia
- if-youre-a-boy-writer-its-a-simple-rule-youve
- The Obscure Phonetic Alphabet
- Designing APIs for Asynchrony
- neil-gaiman-wordsthatfit-sandandglass
- Money and Open Source
- TVTropes.com
- WTF is EMFILE and why does it happen to me
- node_modules
- 001 Pickles
- Raccoons
- NodeConf 2013
- Generosity
- fuckyeahdementia-obama-getting-lucky
- Trying to pin down Isaac's coding style
- Curiosity and The Practice
- Unix Philosophy and Node.js
- Free as in Hugs Licence
- The Internet is Eating Me: To A Fishstick Dying Young
- On Chasing the Right "Zero"
- My Foolish π Call of Duty
- My Foolish π Call of Duty
- Wis and Int
- Promises
- alex-and-william-have-only-known-each-other-for-a
- Complex System Knowledge is Not Transferrable
- Everyone has a Price
- User Feedback
- Why No directories.lib in Node (the less snarky, too-long-for-twitter version)
- 38"
- now-this-is-a-story
- Du1SzQ
2012 36
- git-rebase
- Lokaah Samastaah Sukhino Bhavantu
- The People's Bailout
- Escaping Captivity: Social Apes making Software in the Wild
- On Sexism in Tech
- via-w3cmemes
- Thoughts on TypeScript
- Prioritize
- To all Futurama fans.
- when-im-introspective-about-the-last-few-years-i
- maxeatinginplaces-max-eating-smores-at-node
- yourmonkeycalled-i-have-been-to-the-mall-a-lot
- Policy on Trolling
- srsly-github-please-stop-with-these
- Beliefs
- Hoarders
- TJ Holowaychuk: Components
- Data is a singular noun
- seldo-seriously-you-guys-jurassic-bark-is-the
- 7 Surprising Ways to Speed Up Your Site!!!
- On ES 6 Modules
- Seldo's Tumblr: To save you time, here are Friday's tech headlines in roughly chronological order
- tacoconf-anarchism
- Beginner Ease
- Re: @brixen’s "Is Node Better"
- Stack
- merlin-inspecting-the-worlds-most-derp-derp
- Sexism, Words, and Marketing
- dont-use-classes
- How I Would Do It
- coffee-sun-and-hacking-3-taken-with
- giantass-ship-as-seen-from-my-desk-taken-with
- bikes-on-bart-taken-with-instagram
- Software Personality
- i-really-like-the-view-from-where-i-live
- aredridel-or-you-know-we-could-go-own-our-own
2011 23
- Xmas Traditions
- Browser : Operating System
- badlipreading-herman-cain-a-blr-soundbite
- Experts, Idiots, and Taste
- Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities
- YIqVaA
- JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
- in-the-universe-where-everything-works-the-way-it
- New Recruiter Response
- the-proper-response-to-the-current-impracticality
- youranonnews-use-this-image-in-and-around-bart
- Think Again: War
- New English
- Obvious Answers to Simple Questions
- Benchmark: Array-ification of arguments
- Nunos
- Re: Brown Coffee Co's "Correcting the Record"
- Evolution of a Prototypal Language User
- New Project
- How this works...
- On npm and Homebrew
- seldo-new-episodes-jan-27th-so-excited
- Wrench
2010 30
- Wanted: "no-false-attribs" OSS License
- An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons
- explaining git
- a-three-day-old-human-embryo-is-a-collection-of
- 10 Cool Things You Probably Didn't Realize npm Could Do
- TSA Success Story
- israelis-unlike-canadians-and-americans-dont
- irc.freenode.net#couchdb
- Bart Ticket Machines
- I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions
- Code Samples in Web Pages: How to Not be Doing It Wrong.
- via-peetypassion
- via-icanread-so-thatd-make-the-author-a-small
- Rider
- Forgot
- Google Voice vs. Happy Birthday
- NodeJS and Empowering n00bz
- Steps
- Scoble
- A Public Service
- Email Confidentiality Footers
- Explode
- Steak and BJ Day
- 4 Step Writing Process
- Hours of Sleep
- Shared Flashback
- job-descriptions
- What I hear when you "just want to reach out directly"
- Transition
2009 162
- Torrents
- node-xmasjs
- white-xmas-in-reno
- YouTube - The Known Universe by AMNH
- What English Sounds Like to Foreigners is Today's BIG Thing in Music - NOV 03, 2009
- minzms-in-the-photo-booth-im-not-referring-to
- kung fu grippe : On ‘Conspicuous Compassion.’
- Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Craigslist and Yahoo! Pipes
- The Problem With Music
- How Twilight Works
- Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla
- Robo-One Dance Competition Brings The Creepy | BotJunkie
- comfort
- So How's That Enforcement Working For You? - Raise the Hammer
- Horrible Turn on Vimeo
- Implication v. Causation
- Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages | McClatchy
- Mighty Mighty
- 2012: The End Of The World?
- Microsoft Azure is The New Outlook — jungleG
- Romantic Rivalries Stir Religious Feelings
- The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
- Next Page
- my-new-desktop-background-youre-welcome
- Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
- this disclaimer
- ui
- Threats relocate 'Godless' billboard | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com
- How does health insurance work?
- Cyoa
- Atheists, It's Time to Stand Up to Jesus | Belief | AlterNet
- Validity of software patents goes on trial today at Supreme Court
- Random Thoughts: Why has this got so much harder to do?
- Man punched his way out of shark attack - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic - health - 06 November 2009 - New Scientist
- NSFW Science: Fruit Bat Fellatio
- Great white sharks coming closer to shore than thought, researchers find - washingtonpost.com
- monster-venn-diagram
- Yahoo! open sources uber web server • The Register
- Caviar
- Hive Mind - Hive Mind – The luck of the Sapiens: the weird fortuitousness of global warming - True/Slant
- Cell Size and Scale
- BBC NEWS | Health | Depression link to processed food
- how-to-not-forget
- Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist
- Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm Grabs More Publicity | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- sweet bro and hella jeff
- Python vs Clojure – Evolving « Best in Class
- Letters of Note
- becoming
- the-surface-of-the-earth-is-the-shore-of-the
- hosting-a-party
- FFRF's "Image No Religion" Campaign Reaches San Francisco
- Run if you are a poop
- Thanks To Gene Therapy, Monkeys See In Full Color
- incredible-great-greate-really-nice-just-great-easy-easy
- Better world: Legalise drugs - 11 September 2009 - New Scientist
- in-my-house-right-now-sweet-beautiful-and
- How I Got Quicksilver to Work in Snow Leopard
- The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions | Information Is Beautiful
- Emoticons
- Coding Style
- rock-heart
- Most Twitter users are atheists, according to poll.
- xx, by The XX
- Wherein T-Rex pwns some philosophers with descriptivist semantics.
- netflix-culture
- Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – Whoa, This Is Heavy - True/Slant
- Can Atheists Be Parents? - TIME
- Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs
- Inside Google Books: Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format
- dan-ariely-ted-talk
- Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
- Hurl
- Into
- Holidays
- origami
- The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer
- Stuff Geeks Love
- Loyalty
- Time-Traveling for Dummies
- Artistic Integrity
- thomas-jefferson
- benw-the-billion-dollar-gram-information-is
- Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice
- Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
- discover-hostile-towards-exclamation-points
- Atheism and Groupthink
- The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful
- Never has a conversation gone wronger faster
- Organic Food Isn’t More Nutritious § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
- programming-communism
- The Calm of Exertion
- Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof
- politicians-and-diapers-should-be-changed-often
- On Leadership
- Let's Abolish High School (article) - Youth Rights Network
- schills-revenge
- Fear of Failure
- The Notorious CEO: Ten Startup Commandments from Biggie Smalls
- Merlin fuck f%C9%99k vulgar slang i cant
- merlin-fuck-fək-vulgar-slang-i-cant
- Postal Experiments
- Autism as Academic Paradigm
- hope-less-ness
- Modern Love: Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
- baby-throwing
- If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened
- rob-gruhl-buying-a-new-car
- Sierpinski
- Your World of Text
- Spokenlounge
- Daring Fireball: Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple
- "What you are seeing in Iraq is a Second Amendment War."
- if-you-always-put-limits-on-everything-you-do
- Sharing
- you are a dream
- nature-abhors-a-cathair-free-shirt-or-at-least
- man-on-the-moon-fallacy-having-done-one-hard
- every-time-i-see-an-about-me-textarea-and-dont
- everybody-everywhere-groks-the-pentatonic-scale
- got-a-flickr-shirt-in-the-mail-today-for-fixing-a
- please-dont-interrupt-what-im-doing-to-tell-me
- just-wrote-a-narwhal-script-to-update-adium-status
- i-really-wish-javascript-had-support-for-heredoc
- Once is an accident
- aes-128-gives-me-a-warm-snuggly-feeling-mmm
- lazyweb-where-can-i-find-statistics-on-height-and
- re-yhoo-and-msft-its-like-watching-old-people
- ha-just-realized-that-yui-yuilibrary
- ca-has-moved-from-whether-to-how-in-the-legal
- trying-to-get-the-twitteradium-plugin-to-work-so
- why-i-use-facebook
- its-like-seeing-people-i-know-on-tv-seriously
- back-to-work-again-its-too-dry-here-no-sun
- wanna-know-why-newspapers-are-dying-because-they
- Television
- fyi-yuicompressor-is-on-github-now
- 2616
- i-see-idempotent-gets-as-a-big-invitation-to
- did-you-mean-recursion-httptrimtiwu
- hey-raptr-users-got-manicadoed-keep-this-link
- dustin-isaac-mike-stephanie
- once-again-work-too-late-try-to-squeeze-in-too
- Sharing
- Topics
- Bees
- Foo Hack 4.0
- Fish Sticks
- Responsibility
- Kind of Awesome
- Robots, Ninjas, and Bears
- The Calm of Exertion
- Discipline
- Uhoh
- A New Structure
- On Leadership
- Bruce Lee on Limits
- Rainbows
- Thanks
- 1234567890
- CSS vs Tables: You're Doing It Wrong
2008 19
- Nerdery
- How Not to Get Real (and die trying)
- My Letter to Obama
- The Haiku OOO Email
- Software Development Meme
- A Conversation about Redux Getting Their Users Laid
- Why I'm Not Working on My Startup (Yet)
- Routers and Ethics
- Programming Puzzles and Our Mismatch Problem
- Birthdays, 10,000 Hours, and the Myth of the Ding
- Hacking the Google Favicon
- The Internet is (today) a 16 year old child
- Steal My Bash Profile
- Open in TextMate in Finder for Tiger
- OpenSocial, Meetings, and Success
- Needed: chpass, finger, and pw for the web
- Yahoo! Buzz
- Foo Hack Redesign 3.0
- Going Fast, Frankenstein, and Refactoring
2007 29
- Surgical Team or Motley Crew of Adventurers?
- CSS Modal Dialog that Works Right
- Cross Browser Support for inline-block Styling
- Agile Scrum Sucks (but so do the alternatives)
- What Makes a Good Web developer, and how can you tell?
- ADHD and Web Development
- Top 5 CSS Mistakes
- Real World Advice for Fledgling Web Developers
- Applescript for iTerm (and a request for help with it)
- Fix for Vi's broken arrow key support in iTerm
- Whiting out ads: Is AdBlock even Necessary?
- Font Size vs Zoom --- The only thing that's wrong with YUI's grids.css
- Squish it good - Code compression for the masses
- Blueprint CSS Framework vs YUI Grids
- The New Spam: Broken Unsubscribe Methods
- YUI's "Module Pattern" vs. Prototype's Class Function
- When will the Bubble Bubble burst? (Or: Who really listens to these pundits?)
- Phonetic English
- Marching to a Vertical Cadence
- Companies, Don't Eat Your Brains
- Broken Mac Wireless Driver in 10.4.10
- There's no room for Ego or Zealotry in Software (especially on the web)
- Harry Potter Brand Site
- The Art of the Resume: Why You Probably Shouldn't Use MS Word
- Javascript Style Tip: Use "in" and "delete"
- Memory Leaks in Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Web Standards: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
- The Most Important Things They Don’t Teach in CompSci 101 (but should): Maintainability
- The first entry in the Foo Blog