The story behind colors.js and faker.js

The bizarre case of the author who corrupted his own npm packages – colors.js and faker.js. Originally reported by Bleeping Computer on Jan 9th the author of npm packages colors.js and faker.js…

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Developer Sabotages Own Code

wtf is that · Issue #290 · Marak/colors.js · GitHub

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Faking is Good: Back-end Data and API Prototyping with Faker.js and JSON-Server

Marak, the guy behind the recent breaking of faker.js, colors.js, etc., claims that it was a programming mistake and wants Github to unban him. : r/programming

Faker.JS: Realistic Fake Data Generator For Node.JS & Browser

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps