David Sherret

@DavidSherret

Software developer. Prev @deno_land. Working on ts-morph, dprint, and more.

Toronto, Canada github.com/dsherret Joined January 2009

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My current setup is a sidebar where I can work on tasks within desktop tabs.

I like that it surrounds and takes control of the desktop rather than living in a single window or terminal.

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David Sherret @DavidSherret Nov 5

Can't have CVEs in your dependencies if you have zero dependencies.

Jarred Sumner Verified account @jarredsumner Nov 4

What’s going to happen to open source?

A prediction:

Dependencies are over.

The same Brotli vulnerability impacted .NET, Node, Bun, Envoy and more. Dependencies are too big of a target.

When rewriting a dependency is one prompt away, why take the risk?
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David Sherret @DavidSherret Oct 23

Crunched the latest CVE/Pope numbers.

Bar chart titled "CVEs per Day by Pope" showing average published CVEs per day of each pope's reign, with a photo of each pope under his bar. Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI: 0. John Paul II: 4.5, counted from the CVE program's 1999 launch. Benedict XVI: 15.8. Francis: 50.0. Leo XIV: 219.2. Data from the official CVE list as of October 23, 2026.

Bar chart titled "CVEs by Pope" showing published security vulnerabilities (CVEs) during each pope's reign, with a photo of each pope under his bar. Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI: 0. John Paul II (1978–2005): 9,099. Benedict XVI (2005–2013): 45,340. Francis (2013–2025): 220,948. Leo XIV (2025–present): 116,850 so far. Data from the official CVE list as of October 23, 2026.

calle Verified account @callebtc Oct 22

I'm tired boss

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David Sherret @DavidSherret Oct 21

More progress compiling Prettier to Wasm then running it in dprint.

32 threads then 1 thread.

32 threads: 11.4s compiled vs 182s in Node.js

One thread: 135.6s compiled vs 364.8s in Node.js

David Sherret @DavidSherret Oct 17

Current progress compiling Prettier to Wasm.

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David Sherret @DavidSherret Oct 21

It's very hard to innovate on module resolution in JS because the TS user experience would be bad.

TS needs something like content mappers, but for module resolution—you specify an npm package in a tsconfig and then TS sends it the raw specifier and referrer info to resolve.