Nicholas Cloud nicholascloud

The problem

When I list my npm packages with npm ls -g (or without the -g option for a local node_modules directory) I see all installed packages and their dependencies. Like so:

$ npm ls -g
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ └── [email protected]

This is a summary and response to Chris Ammerman (@cammerman) re: a twitter thread that I (@nicholascloud) initiated with this post. I will state my intended point, summarize the point I believe that Chris has made, and then offer a more long-form response as Twitter is simply not conducive to such discussions.

First, the following quote, which constitutes the bulk of my initial post:

My intention when posting this was simply to offer Rand's commentary on the growing tendency of people to segregate themselves into "tribes" based on birth culture, or "ethnicity". I do not believe that Rand here refers to food, music, dress, or other minor cultural rituals which everyone adopts by default, but rather to the brand of identity politics that have become common means of social organization. So common, in fact, that people now form tribes around religion, sexual orientatio

Version control

git-run - A tool for managing multiple git repositories
git-open - Type git open to open the repo website (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) in your browser.
git-recent - List recent git branches, formatted so fancy

JavaScript development

eslint - ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.

	//context: http://www.nicholascloud.com/2012/04/historical-javascript-objects/

	var historicalObject = (function () {

	var _pushProto = function (obj) {
	function EmptyObject () {}
	EmptyObject.prototype = obj \|\| Object.prototype;
	var other = new EmptyObject();
	if (other.__version !== undefined) {
	other.__version++;

	//see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/240258/removing-trailing-nulls-from-byte-array-in-c-sharp

	static class ByteArrayExtensions {
	public static Byte[] Prune(this Byte[] bytes) {
	if (bytes.Length == 0) return bytes;
	var i = bytes.Length - 1;
	while (bytes[i] == 0) {
	i--;
	}
	Byte[] copy = new Byte[i + 1];

	Browserified (a parody of Stupify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjKY3gg4T3Q)

	---

	Yeah, bringing you another disturbing code base
	from the mind of one sick dev who can't tell the difference
	and gets minified

	I've been waiting my whole life for just one func
	And all I needed was just one func

	public static List<Dictionary<string, string>> FindbyValue(string searchTerm)
	{
	LoadData();

	List<Dictionary<string, string>> jobs = new List<Dictionary<string, string>>();

	foreach (Dictionary<string, string> row in AllJobs)

	if (row.ContainsValue(searchTerm))
	{

	public static List<Dictionary<string, string>> FindbyValue(string searchTerm)
	{
	LoadData();

	List<Dictionary<string, string>> jobs = new List<Dictionary<string, string>>();

	foreach (Dictionary<string, string> row in AllJobs) {

	if (row.ContainsValue(searchTerm))
	{

	# hook into the cd command to test for the presence
	# of .npmrc and then switch node versions based on that
	cd() {
	builtin cd "$@"
	if [ -d $NVM_DIR ]
	then
	if [ -f ./.nvmrc ]
	then
	# cat ./.nvmrc
	LOCAL_NODE_VERSION=`cat .nvmrc`

	nvmOutdated() {
	CURRENT="$(nvm current)"
	for v in `ls -1 ~/.nvm/versions/node/`; do
	nvm use $v
	npm -g outdated
	done
	nvm use $CURRENT
	}

	alias nvm-outdated="nvmOutdated"