urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads

PER

MONTH

(a project I authored in 2008 and now co-maintain)

i often think about how inefficient and wasteful our global digital infrastructure is: there's probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

wowow - didn't know you were behind urllib3

On behalf of all of us, thank you 🙇‍♀️

lol only among python users who have been frustrated by seeing "connection pool is full" warnings in their logs.

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make candles that give people love, joy, and delight at humankind.place

Damn 

Wait what accounted for the spike?

building Stauro ❇ frontend dev at @ensdomains ❇
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Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - eng @daylight

that's crazy, thank you for your service 🫡

bro wrote a line in 2008 and now it runs the internet