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Theo Okafor
Software Editor. Theo Okafor is the software editor at Savviest.news, covering the web platform, developer tools, and the open-source economy. A long-time maintainer and former platform engineer, he writes about JavaScript, browsers, and package registries with a reviewer’s eye and a debugger’s patience.
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