>We also live in a world where a package written by someone learning to code ended up critically underpinning the entire ecosystem and is downloaded 500 million times a month
whoa what? which one is that?
Check is-even and is-odd npm packages. https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
As another commenter said, it's "is-even":
https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even
From that page:
> I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.
I've nothing against Jon Schlinkert, it's not his fault the way we build software is more than messed up, where our build systems are so brittle that, "Throw out the universe and rebuild it from scratch" became not just acceptable, but the main way to get build systems to work reliably.