Episode 374 - The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1
Josh and Kurt revisit Episode 77, which was named "npm and the supply chain" but was a discussion about the incident we all know now as "leftpad". We didn't understand what was happening at the time, ...
8 Mai 202329min
Episode 373 – HHGG security, Episode 42 remaster part 2
This is the second part of remastering Episode 42 which is all about the security in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. It's a fun show and it's shocking how many of these security themes are...
1 Mai 202334min
Episode 372 - HHGG security, Episode 42 remaster part 1
The podcast is on a hiatus for a little while due to some personal matters, but that creates an opportunity to remaster some fun old episodes. These shows are REALLY hard to listen to at the current q...
24 Apr 202330min
Episode 371 - pip install is the tool we deserve but not the tool we need
Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post about pip and virtual environments. This eventually turns into a larger conversation around packaging tools and how we see incremental changes over time. The packa...
17 Apr 202334min
Episode 370 - Open Source is bigger than you can imagine
Josh and Kurt talk about some data on the size of NPM. Josh wrote a blog post and a report about the amount of SEO spam in NPM was released. Open source is enormous, and it's mostly one person. It's h...
10 Apr 202334min
Episode 369 - OpenAI broke ChatGPT then tried to blame open source
Josh and Kurt talk about OpenAI having a bug in ChatGPT, then they tried to blame open source. It didn't go very well. In this episode Josh and Kurt argue a lot, maybe someday we'll know who was the l...
3 Apr 202330min
Episode 368 - The Sovereign Tech Fund with Fiona Krakenbürger
Josh and Kurt talk to Fiona Krakenbürger about the Sovereign Tech Fund. This is a fund created by Germany to fund important open source projects. Fiona has amazing insight into how this fund was creat...
27 Mar 202339min
Episode 367 - Open source will never be the same
Josh and Kurt talk about GitHub enforcing sanctions against an open source developer and Docker changing how their registry works. There's a lot to unpack in this one. There's a lot of happenings goin...
20 Mar 202332min
