hi. on my server i run a javascript-based daemon
(its function is irrelevant here).
i also, seperately, run the rss fetcher
sfeed_update which i then
transfer to my laptop where i read it.
today i noticed my feeds did not seem to be fetching. weird.
after like a minute of investigation i find that my /tmp directory,
kept on an 8GB ramdisk, had run out of space...
but what could be causing it?
so it turned out that my /tmp directory was filled with temporary
directories created by the javascript package manager(?) yarn,
which would create a new directory every few seconds.
so i find a github issue about this, open since november 2018,
which contains no solution other than running a cron job or
changing to yarn v2, which my daemon does not seem to support
and distro does not package.
of course, while this massive issue affecting quite a few people is not worth fixing after five years, it is important to hide a comment, labelling it 'unprofessional' and 'not worth visibility' for containing a silly image in it.
writing software in javascript is immoral.