npm weekly #161: npm and Capital One chat, last chance to apply for our SRE spot, plus npm.community news!

Give ’em some credit: npm and Capital One

Earlier this week, we shared our latest convo with the folks from Capital One. Software engineer Joe Hanley took some time out to share with us how the industry-leading financial institution uses npm.

For a behind the scenes peek at Capital One, visit our blog and read the full interview.

Last chance to join as an SRE

We’re looking for someone to fill a senior service reliability engineer role on our team. Normally we’d say something encouraging you to check out the position, but Chris Dickinson already did such a fantastic job that you should read what he wrote then apply here.

The deadline to apply is tomorrow Friday, August 31, 2018.

Recommended package: simple-short-pretty

This week’s package recommendation comes to us from Seán Murray, who created simple-short-pretty, a library with the goal of, you guessed it, making your code more readable and concise. Now you too can write Node.js more like simple prose and less like incomprehensible spaghetti.

Let’s chat soon

How do you use npm? If you or your team is building something cool with npm, we want to help promote it far and wide. Let’s partner up to show off what you’ve built. Let’s chat!

Introducing Project Paper Cuts

Earlier this week, the folks at GitHub announced the release of Project Paper Cuts, an effort to continuously work with their community to fix small to medium-sized workflow problems, UI-related issues, and the like. Workflow improvements ftw!

The latest: npm@6.4.1

Have you updated yet? Install version 6.4.1 with npm i -g npm@latest or try it out with $ npx npm@latest ... This latest version contains some bugfixes, a few dependency bumps, plus some updates to documentation. For the full changelog details, head over to npm.community and read the release notes.

npm.community Corner

There is so much going on at npm.community! Chances are, if you’re running into an issue, someone else has already brought it up on the forum.

But how will you ever know if you never sign up?

Windows 95 like it’s…uh, 1995

Ever wanted to run Windows 95 on Linux, your Mac, or even, dare we say, your Windows machine? Now you can Windows 95 from almost anywhere with windows95, created by Felix Rieseberg. Try it out!

Wombats, the obsession among Pre-Raphaelite artists

Art historian Anne Louise Avery recently shared artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s infatuation with our favorite creature: the wombat. Apparently, he kept two wombats as pets during his lifetime and spent hours and hours at the “Wombat Lair” in the London Zoo.

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