Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship. Which seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
I remember some of the people involved in the open source community was trying to push for a npm alternative under a foundation.
There have been a couple: open-registry, entropic. They both seem to have withered on the vine, though.