npm weekly #125: Save Net Neutrality, npm at Scotland JS, and someone discovered a new optical illusion!

Help save net neutrality

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is planning to vote on a measure that would repeal net neutrality and transform the openness of the internet. This repeal means that internet service providers (ISPs) would determine the future of online markets, meaning ISPs will have the power to decide which websites you can access and at what speed each will load.

It’s not too late to use your voice and join the online campaign to stop the FCC. 177 million Americans will be affected by the repeal (and this editor, a freelancer, is one of them — Ed.).

npm heads to Scotland this summer

The folks at ScotlandJS recently announced their keynote speakers, and among them are not one but two npm friends! We’re so excited that Katie Fenn and CJ Silverio will be in Edinburgh this July to represent npm. Tickets are on sale now, so you can be there too!

What we’re squinting at: The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion

How does your brain know to turn curvy lines into zig-zags? The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion is based on a new paper from psychologist Kohske Takahashi. It posits that the new optical illusion happens when the brain defaults to “seeing corners when there is ambiguity over whether a line is a smooth curve or not.” What do you see?

Happenings in the pnpm community

Have you heard of pnpm? It’s a fast and efficient package manager that works on Windows and Linux. pnpm maintainer Zoltan Kochan recently shared the discussion around whether to run pnpm as a service. To learn more about pnpm check out their page on pnpm vs npm.

What we’re reading: Love as the Foundation of Success

This week’s reading recommendation won’t take you much time to get through, but it will stay with you long after you’ve finished. Stephanie Hurlburt (whose wise words you might have seen on Twitter) looks at her deeper motivations past and present in Love as the Foundation of Success. Enjoy!

Introducing AirplaneJS

If you can’t wait until later this month to track Santa’s flight, Thomas Watson has got your back. He just recently released AirplaneJS, a software-defined radio app written with JavaScript that picks up ADS-B radio signals from airplanes and plots them live on a map in your browser. Very cool!

Here are some friendly neighborhood package manager managers

Last week, Kat Marchán shared of photo with fellow package manager managers (and bundlers!) Rebecca Turner and André Arko. If you haven’t checked out André’s work onRuby Together or Bundler, take a look. We ️love other package managers and communities.

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