--- title: "Sizing up your images with Sindre" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 509 published_at: "2023-11-07" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/509" --- Plus Deno lets you use npm, Node 20 goes default on Heroku, and telling a text file from a binary one. | #​509 — November 7, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/509) Together with [![WorkOS\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_514,h_98/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:9/tdfxwgk852ui9leli4wm.png)](https://workos.com/?utm_source=coopernode&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q42023) ![Node.js Weekly](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/v1653576619/lgfqinzbdqttwmhvljxb.png) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/letrqljiohs8niwv1gvo.jpg)](https://github.com/lirantal/awesome-nodejs-security) [Awesome Node Security: A Curated List of Node Security Resources](https://github.com/lirantal/awesome-nodejs-security) — Includes links to libraries like [Helmet](https://www.npmjs.com/package/helmet) (which just had a new release a few hours ago), educational resources, tools, and even stories of incidents like [the left-pad incident](http://left-pad.io/) (which, somehow, was a whole seven years ago!) 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