The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source

This title could be clearer and more informative.Try out Clickbait Shieldfor free (5 uses left this month).

A satirical listicle presenting ten elaborate fictional conspiracies about open source software, including claims that Dependabot is a surveillance program, node_modules is a distributed ledger, the left-pad incident was a crypto liquidity operation, Kubernetes was deliberately made complex to create jobs, Git was extracted

15m read timeFrom nesbitt.io
Post cover image
Table of contents
10. Dependabot is a surveillance program #9. The Dockerfile syntax is deliberately broken #8. left-pad was removed as part of a crypto liquidity operation #7. node_modules is a distributed ledger #6. The Rust borrow checker is a loyalty mechanism #5. Jia Tan was a committee #4. Kubernetes was a jobs program #3. Git was not written in two weeks #2. The core-js maintainer discovered something #1. There are only 14 maintainers #

Sort: