npm weekly #130: Take the Package Signing Survey, meet Carolyn and Joel, plus npm heads to Romania in April!

Take the Package Signing Survey

npm’s CLI team is conducting an informal survey on package signing schemes across other languages’ package managers.

If you know a little (or a lot) about module signing implementation or third party implementations, head over to the package.community repo and read the discussion for more details on how to contribute.

Check this out: npm & Lockfiles

We were excited to see this presentation pop up in our Twitter timeline! Last week, Danielle Adams spoke at the BrooklynJS meetup on npm & Lockfiles. We love seeing other perspectives on npm features and Danielle gives a great explanation of lockfiles here!

npm heads to Romania this spring

Earlier this week, JSHeroes announced their lineup of 2018 heroes and npm human Jeff Lembeck is among them! He’ll be speaking in Romania later this Spring, so if that’s in your neck of the woods grab a ticket while they’re still available.

Welcome Carolyn and Joel!

Please join us in welcoming some very awesome new people to the npm team!

Carolyn McDonough hails from Ohio but now calls the Bay Area her home. She joins npm as a tech writer, having studied technical writing at Carnegie Mellon. She is very excited about the opportunity to work at the intersection of UX and documentation. In her spare time, you’ll find Carolyn hanging with her husband, son, two Australian Shepherds, and her tabby cat.

Joel Edwards joins npm as an Enterprise dev teammate, providing support and maintenance and helping to develop new features. Joel has 11 years of software dev experience and works from Albuquerque, New Mexico. One cool thing you’ll find Joel doing away from his keyboard is woodworking!

Welcome everyone!

Recommended module: jimp

If you’ve ever wanted an image processing setup that keeps everything in-house, jimp is for you! Short for JavaScript Image Manipulation Program, jimp was created by Oliver Moran entirely in JavaScript for Node with zero external or native dependencies. Give it a try.

Did you know that preview.npmjs.com is a thing that exists?

In the words of Chris Dickinson, preview.npmjs.com is the place where we conduct experiments like Spife, PostCSS, CSS modules, tachyons, React, and more! Feel free to explore and see what we’re up to.

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