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Yeah, I got scooped. Was busy crying. It's fine though, I wrote this for therapeutic benefit, not social media clout.

Mikeal Rogers was a prolific Node.js developer and community leader. He created the popular "request" library, ran the initial NodeConf events, helped design the npm registry, and …

That trip is the origin of many of my happiest memories. It was amazing to meet you all, and to share that adventure with him. The playnode.io team and the Korean JavaScript commun…

100%. The main reason we created https://priceops.org is that there's a real mind-shift that has to happen for someone to realize that there's even a "there" there. Most people who…

> written entierly by Isaac I see what you did there ;)

I enjoy tutorials like this, in the same way and for the same reasons that I enjoy videos where people make cutting tools out of obsidian that they chip by hand. Personally, though…

Many startups will go out of business because they don't address this concern. Startups have extremely little information to guide their pricing and packaging decisions, and often …

Take the data point for what it's worth (ie, not much). I have never found these chat popovers useful, I have always found them obstructive, and I have always been seething with re…

Just to clarify: > This is reasonably fast, but if it's uncached, it is an API call to Stripe It will be cached after the first request you make with the sidecar/SDK, and unless yo…

I just played around with the NextJS starter demo app, and it seems like you can `import tier from 'tier'` and call `tier.subscribe()`, `tier.report()`, and `tier.limits()` without…

I am not super familiar with NextJS, but I'll take a look. The Node SDK is a pretty standard Node library (not clientside JS, for probably obvious reasons). It does spawn a child p…

> You see a hundred blog posts of "why you should experiment with your pricing", but actually doing that is often such a pain that nobody ends up doing that (and admittedly the rea…

I completely agree. Whoever[1] made that page should probably not be allowed to make web pages without the assistance of a real designer. [1]: me. I'm talking about me.

I don't think that's 100% accurate implementation-wise, but the gist is definitely correct. Basically, yes, owing to the way that these things have to get mapped into Stripe's obje…

Ah, I somewhat misunderstood your previous comment, my apologies. This could certainly be clearer in documentation and the priceops.org presentation, I'll take the note on that and…

> Might be wrong, but brief review of this appears to show the “thesis” of PriceOps is yield-based metered feature pricing The "thesis" of PriceOps is less "you must have metered f…

Grandparenting in old accounts is baked into the system. Plans are immutable[1] once pushed live, so if you add a new plan and put it on your signup page, new customers will use th…

True story, the npm registry was once taken down (not maliciously, just by accident) by a ReDOS in node-semver. That was extra fun to debug because the failure happened inside of C…

> I've been in the node scene since 0.10. That's around 10 years. My packages have billions of downloads annually. My viewpoint here carries the weight of hours of debug time and f…

Your take on the installer in npm v6 is not wrong. It got that way by a process of gradual iterative evolution, and it has lots of warts. npm v7 features a ground-up rewrite of the…

Yes, this has always been possible. Just specify the tarball url instead of a version or range.

You might be surprised (or maybe not) to learn that many service providers are far more willing to spend money on predictably large bandwidth bills than on less predictable changes…

If you run `npm install` with an argument, then you're saying "get me this thing, and update the lock file", so it'll do that. `npm install` with no argument will only add new thin…

If you run `npm install` with no arguments, and you have a lockfile, it will make the node_modules folder match the lockfile. Try it. $ json dependencies.esm =3.2.5 $ npm ls esm ta…