Remember the post yesterday about a popular NodeJS lib displaying ads? Now remember the left-pad fiasco? Well, meet 'is-buffer', the library from the same developer downloaded 440 million times a month.

I can't believe you would write a comment like that.

I was reading your comment while driving and crashed into a school bus killing several children. How can you be so heartless to have written your comment? I can't believe you didn't foresee the cost that your comment would have on the world!

Or... perhaps if you make and give something away for free with a license that explicitly provides no warranties or guarantees of fitness, you shouldn't feel responsable how people use that freely available code.

Fuck this whole site, and fuck this whole community. The horseshit about how freely giving away some code (no matter how trivial) is somehow making the world worse is insanity. I maintain one garbage package and I can't even find the fucking time to review and merge PRs for free, and now i'm reading all this shit about someone who's clearly spent a fuckload of time, effort, and care with a huge number of packages that vary in depth but go from "one line" all the way up to entire protocols, and somehow even they are doing it well enough for you gatekeeping fucks to the point that giving it away for free still doesn't make up for it?

I mean fucking re-read the comments above. People are giving the developer shit because they freely made webtorrent, but because he didn't also write a spec (for free) it's bad code and sad?

Give me a fucking break. You're all entitled little fucks, and I'm done with the whole lot of ya.

If anyone wants to take over my one trash package, let me know. Improve it, archive it, fucking add malware to it I don't give a shit. I'll go waste my life playing videogames and watching shitty tv shows, because it's better than wasting it giving away code for free only to have people talk about how awful you are for doing so.

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