npm weekly #147: 3 million security scans! 5 billion weekly downloads! snow leopards biting tails!

Over 3 million security scans served

As you might have noticed, we’ve been talking about security a lot lately. The underlying motivation is that we want to help make JavaScript and open source software more secure. So we’re pretty excited to see that npm has served over 3 million quick security scans and almost 200k full audits.

If you’ve used `npm audit`, pgp keys, read-only tokens, two-factor authentication, or any other number of our security features, thank you! You’re helping us make the ecosystem more secure every day.

1 billion packages every weekday

Late last week, Laurie Voss made the announcement that npm users have been quite busy with their downloads lately. So busy, in fact, that users are now downloading over 1 billion packages every single weekday! Which, if you do the math quickly, carry the one, etc., that means a little over 5 billion packages are being downloaded weekly. Great job everyone! :)

Join us for WaffleJS next week

If you’re in or near the Bay Area next Tuesday, come join us at WaffleJS. It’s a night of talks, a little karaoke, and of course, waffles! At the next event, Laurie Voss will be revealing what we’ve recently learned about security and JavaScript. You won’t want to miss it. Get your tickets here.

Talking prototypes and plugins with BinaryOps

Our series of Customer Convos continues this week with the latest edition featuring Mark Voorberg of BinaryOps Software.

BinaryOps is a custom software consulting service, based in British Columbia, Canada. They are long-time npm users and npm Orgs fans. To learn more about how they use npm to share their custom plugins, check out the full conversation on our blog.

Cool npm project: Style Dictionary

Need a short cut to to keep your styles consistent and synchronized across multiple development platforms and devices? Say hello to Style Dictionary! Created by the folks at Amazon, Style Dictionary allows you to import your style preferences with a single command. Pretty cool, huh?

You need some snow leopards biting their tails in your life

With so much going on, why not take a quick break and look at this thread of photos guaranteed to make you smile. Rae Paoletta recently created a thread of photos of snow leopards of all shapes and sizes enjoying one of life’s simple pleasures: biting one’s own tail. Enjoy!

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