Faker.js is gone, and the README says: 'What happened with Aaron Swartz?'
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Faker.js is gone, and the README says: 'What happened with Aaron Swartz?'
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Re: Faker.js is gone, and the README says: 'What happened with Aaron Swartz?'
#2Anyone who spent any amount of time populating their APIs, apps and websites with temporary fake data for testing purposes, has encountered Faker.js, as of 2 days ago the code is gone from GitHub with the last commit stating 'endgame' and the README: 'What really happened with Aaron Swartz?' If you don't know who is, he was one of the co-founders of Reddit, creator of Markdown and web.py just to name a few, unfortunately he is no longer with us, you can read his life story on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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Re: Faker.js is gone, and the README says: 'What happened with Aaron Swartz?'
#3Anyone who spent any amount of time populating their APIs, apps and websites with temporary fake data for testing purposes, has encountered Faker.js, as of 2 days ago the code is gone from GitHub with the last commit stating 'endgame' and the README: 'What really happened with Aaron Swartz?' If you don't know who is, he was one of the co-founders of Reddit, creator of Markdown and web.py just to name a few, unfortuna…
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