How to Succeed in Open Source Without Really Trying (Really)

≥8 years ago, I wrote about an extremely niche improvement to a very specific use of SVGs. It got enough positive feedback that I turned that knowledge into an NPM package: mini-svg-data-uri.

Today, it’s both one of the most and least important web dev things I’ve ever done.

Somehow, it’s important

• As of this writing, NPM says it gets ≈1.7 million downloads/week. That also means NPM foisted 2FA onto my account that I almost never use. (If you compare …

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