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NPM and Node tips to make your dev machine (slightly) safer
https://rrampage.github.io/2020/05/28/npm-and-node-tips-to-make-your-dev-machine-slightly-safer/
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NPM is used as a convenient cross-platform package manager for a lot of developer tools. For many tools, the defacto way to install is npm install -g $TOOL. But installing anything via npm allows it to run untrusted code on your machine.