James

@43081j.com

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Lead: @e18e.dev - tinylibs - chai Maintainer: parse5 - @unjs.io - @bomb.sh - chokidar - @npmx.dev - @vueuse.org - prettier Sponsor me at github.com/sponsors/43081j github.com/43081j / Focusing on ecosystem perf & tooling 🥳

A notice showing my user (43081j) being added to the Prettier GitHub organisation.
the install size of vite over time, across versions. showing the distribution of the install size between dependencies and vite itself.
caniuse-lite install size reduced by 39% (942.5KB smaller) since v1.0.300001799
a screenshot of the e18e Claude skill being used to scan a repo for replaceable packages. In this case, it finds that `yargs` can be replaced by the built-in `parseArgs`.
A screenshot of an npm "strict-allow-scripts" setting which enforces an allowlist of scripts by dependencies.
The e18e CLI package decreased in size by 47MB and dropped 108 dependencies.
a chart showing the size of the rose-skills package over time. the rewrite in typescript resulted in a large reduction in size.
Found 220 errors. Watching for file changes.
A success message reading "Package size decreased since v26.0.6" and "Install size reduced by 40% (328.5 kB smaller)".
a screenshot of a page showing alternatives to the "chalk" npm package. listing the "util.styleText" native functionality Node now supports as of v20.
a screenshot of a pull request with status "merged", named "add timeline tab to package page".
a screenshot of npmx showing "You might not need this dependency", and "This package can be replaced with util.styleText available since Node 20.12.0".
A summary showing that a user with 1063 packages has 388 "lifted" packages - resulting in an estimated $19400 per month
a screenshot of a github issue template in the module-replacements repository.
a chart showing my 2025 github contributions - 22% code review, 43% commits, 29% pull requests, 6% issues.
a graph showing the weekly downloads of an npm package quickly rising to 3000 downloads per week.
a graph showing a flat trend of a package staying the same size until the latest version, at which point it spikes to 579KB (previously 18KB)
a screenshot of a warning stating that an unspecified package has increased in size by 3074% since the last version