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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.
But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.
I think Linus sits at the intersection of both groups. Linus is not some Ronald. The Ronalds of this world are for example the creator of core-js.
Oh hey! I've used that package for years.
And so did most of the world
I just read his usage statistics on the GitHub page. Holy crap! I thought it was just some small project that a cool dude shared back when I originally found it. Perhaps it was, back then.
Still mad about what happened to that guy.
What happened to him?
It's linked on that page. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md
I just finished reading his story and wtf! Man, I sent him $25. It's not a lot, but hopefully it covers my tiny bit of usage of that polyfill, back when I used it.
I had no idea that package was used so extensively. Good lord! I actually just recently removed it from most of my projects because the features I needed it for now have broad browser support.