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Tomte
Fascinating to see all those attempts to count the number of dependencies (including calling the man page), but why include this in the post?
BossingAround
It's a satire... The whole post is a satire. Just read on, it gets more and more ridiculous. Of course it's all made up.
Tomte
Ah, thanks. I guess I've read so much about the JavaScript ecosystem that I didn't doubt it.
m4r35n357
Yeah, you want to watch out for those "rouge" developers!
isoprophlex
Look i enjoy pissing on npm packages just as much as the next brogramming hipster but...

'imagine if the car you drove to work had more than 291 parts'

Well... Imagine it has less than that number of parts!

Or imagine an apple containing less than that many distinct chemical substances!

Not the best example...

robinduckett
Yeah I read this and raised an eyebrow. Imagine having this many bones in your body >.>
nkrisc
I think the fact that both of these are terrible examples is part of the joke. They have so little to do with making the point the author wants to make (satirically) that they're almost a non sequitur.
isoprophlex
Ha! Thanks ... I'm so dense I didn't get that, I actually believed there's a guy fiery bitmap in all those packages

This is some quality satire, haha

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whalesalad
The capitalization treatment in the title of the post (not just here in HN) is like nails on a chalkboard.
bassman9000
Glimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help menu.

Nice.

Tajnymag
An important note for many: this article is a satire, meant as a joke making fun of all the other similar posts
rafaelvasco
Even if it is a satire, there would be no satire in the first place if it weren't at least partially true.
bouke
Author is complaining about Ember having "glimmer" as a dependency and not knowing what it does, however the author is searching github/google for the term "glitter".