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Discussion on: 6 Questions to ask yourself before copy-pasting code

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Adrian Bece

Great advice, definitely something to keep in mind.

One question I would like to add is "Is the code source safe and reputable?". Especially if we want to run it in the terminal. Some time ago, I've read this article and always kept it in mind when copy/pasting the code: blog.securelayer7.net/exploiting-b...

Thank you very much for including my article, by the way.

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Paula Santamaría

Great question and article Adrian, thank you!
I really enjoyed your article about evaluating npm packages. I work with other package managers like Nuget and I found your checklist questions to be useful to check those packages as well.