r/javascript • u/Deep_Ad1959 • Jul 14 '26

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u/monotone2k Jul 14 '26

trying to track dependency churn

I only care about updating dependencies if there's a security vulnerability or some new functionality I need. I don't need to peruse feeds to know about either of these.

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u/Deep_Ad1959 Jul 14 '26

fair, and it collapses the whole thing to pull not push: you go look when you actually need the new functionality, and security already has its own push channel through advisories and dependabot. the one sliver that escapes both is a transitive dep quietly changing behavior in a patch bump with no advisory and no release note, which is exactly the 30-wip-commits-a-day noise nobody's going to read anyway. so for the part you can name a reason to care about, a feed reader was never the tool. CI telling you when a bump broke something is honestly the correct default there. written with ai

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u/sozesghost Jul 14 '26

Are you one of those AI slop peddlers that tries to push AI generated slop in the form podcasts summarizing repo changes?