Seachess

Issue 2024-W02

Published on

Subscribe to new issues of the bulletin via the RSS feed or via email.

This week has been about the everything npm package, sourcecode visualisations, OCR in Rust and WebAssembly as a boundary abstraction.

# When “Everything” Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024

An article summarising the events that led to an npm package creating a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

# Gource

A tool to generate visualisations from source controlled repositories in Git, Mercurial, Subversion and more.

# Ocrs

An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library and command-line interface written in Rust.

# missing the point of webassembly

An article introducing WebAssembly from a boundary abstraction point of view.