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

Urllib3's popularity highlights digital inefficiency and waste in infrastructure