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26 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 9 stories, 17 comments · first 2015-07-01 · latest 2023-09-25

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  1. What’s wrong with a function? Here’s an interesting discussion on the topic, btw: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10
    comment by dfee · 2023-09-25 · in Why do we need modules at all? (2011)
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    Sindresaurus
    story by notpushkin · 2022-09-06 · 0 comments
  3. …to do the work and it is then forever done. Whether that's in JS or something else entirely. [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
    comment by joepie91_ · 2020-08-13 · in "Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
  4. …per-project if you let npm manage your own libs. Plus, bug fixes are automatically propagated. [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... [2] https://github.com/franciscop/fetch
    comment by franciscop · 2018-10-17 · in Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
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    One-line node modules
    story by franciscop · 2018-09-14 · 1 comment
  6. He looks to be located in Bangkok: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/414#issuecomment-... The creator of Vue.js (in sibling comment) has a Patreon account with a monthly income of $US15k+ (at time of writing this). That seems to…
    comment by justinclift · 2018-06-11 · in On paying for software
  7. People have setup Github repos with issues as ongoing AMA's. I think a lot are forked from here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama
    comment by j_s · 2017-11-30 · in Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing
  8. …The last project I worked on with nodejs as front end had 3000+ packages just for the UI. [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... [2] https://github.com/kevva/is-positive
    comment by mafro · 2017-09-18 · in Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository
  9. …Whether people should use small modules is still up for debate, there are trade-offs [1] [2]). [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... [2] https://medium.com/@Rich_Harris/small-modules-it-s-not-quite...
    comment by allover · 2017-08-02 · in App sizes are out of control
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    Can we developers build a country together?
    story by devspaper · 2016-05-15 · 0 comments
  11. …frameworks exist. Same goes for build scripts. Also read this to get more context on small modules: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10
    comment by nilliams · 2016-04-27 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  12. I'm sindresorhus. My thoughts on the left-pad situation: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/367
    comment by mofle · 2016-04-01 · in LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
  13. …be in removing the weight of including the dependency. sindresorhus says it better than me though https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... I imagine it also depends on whether your place of employment is writing one…
    comment by gravity13 · 2016-04-01 · in LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
  14. …comment by Sindre Sorhus (author of over 600 modules on npm) is my favorite writeup on the topic: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... . If anything looking at sindresorhus's activity feed: (…
    comment by forgotpwtomain · 2016-03-24 · in NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
  15. …comment by Sindre Sorhus (author of over 600 modules on npm) is my favorite writeup on the topic: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1... TL;DR: Small modules are easy to reason about, and encourage code reuse and…
    comment by lewisl9029 · 2016-03-24 · in NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
  16. Another interesting argument for micro-modules: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
    comment by peterjmag · 2016-03-23 · in NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
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    The case for super small node modules
    story by ingve · 2016-03-23 · 0 comments
  18. Sindre basically treats npm as his snippet database. I don't see anything wrong with it. See: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
    comment by sotojuan · 2016-03-23 · in I've Just Liberated My Modules
  19. …//github.com/sindresorhus/notifier-for-github-firefox [2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [3] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama [4] https://github.com/sindresorhus/speed-test [5] https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-reachable [6]…
    comment by r3bl · 2016-02-15 · in Refined GitHub: A Chrome extension that simplifies the interface, adds features
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    GitHub for AmA
    story by karmiphuc · 2016-02-06 · 0 comments
  21. …He doesn't work. He moved to Thailand and lives off savings. Here's the answer you are looking for: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/167 and you can search more related questions in the issues. [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus
    comment by sotojuan · 2016-01-24 · in Ask HN: How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?
  22. …it. The issue comes when people create these huge "do-everything" modules. This is worth a read: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
    comment by feross · 2015-12-31 · in Flat Tree Dependency Resolution in Npm v3
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    On one-line Node.js modules
    story by striking · 2015-07-15 · 0 comments
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    One-line node modules
    story by scapbi · 2015-07-10 · 0 comments
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    One-line node modules
    story by vishnuks · 2015-07-01 · 0 comments
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    Sindresorhus AMA
    story by vishnuks · 2015-07-01 · 0 comments