Well, as you say, it IS javascriptjanuary.com, but I was more put off by the fact it seems it'd be nicer as this: node -e "require('https').get(url, b => b.p

Well, as you say, it IS javascriptjanuary.com, but I was more put off by the fact it seems it'd be nicer as this: node -e "require('https').get(url, b => b.pipe(process.stdout)))" > README.md rather than this: node -e require('https').get(url, b => b.on('data', c => process.stdout.write(c+'')))" > README.md (and also that there's a typo with the quoting at the beginning).