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colinhacks
@colinhacks
Sep 20
my first PR to Node has been merged 😇 it improves Node startup times by 0.8ms by seeding V8's random number generator from the OS instead of using OpenSSL
src: seed V8 from the OS CSPRNG instead of OpenSSL's DRBG by colinhacks · Pull Request #65796 ·...
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colinhacks
@colinhacks
Sep 15
I used Nub to scan the top 10k npm packages for phantom (undeclared) dependencies It found 660 problematic packages.
De-phantoming the npm ecosystem
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colinhacks
@colinhacks
Sep 15
In the latest Nub `nubx` lets you disable dlx (downloading packages from the internet) globally, forever This lets you use nubx to invoke project-local CLIs (e.g. prisma, etc) without the risk of a typo running an untrusted package on your machine
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colinhacks
@colinhacks
Sep 14
Nub v0.9.1 — Nub autosizes the libuv threadpool on beefier machines Node caps the threadpool at 4. Nub lets this float to the number of machine cores (with conservative nicing beyond 4), increasing max throughput for crypto, zlib, DNS, and native addons like bcrypt and sharp
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colinhacks
@colinhacks
Sep 14
In the latest Nub Set `nodeExecutable` in nub.jsonc to override Nub's Node version resolution logic — you can provide an absolute path, or use $() syntax to dynamically resolve one
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