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My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell

Software Unscripted

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The Strange Truth About Open Source Programming

When I learned JavaScript, I ended up working a lot with strings and regics and parsing. So when it came to CoffeeScript, I just like found out about it someday or something. And that's such a weird thing about open source. Like there are big companies using some open source project, but like the people working on it might be beginner teenager who used it in their spare time. It should be a little bit scary. If you have a mental model of when I do Windows update, that is as safe as doing NPM update on my packages. Not like you might be getting code from not even setting aside the question of is somebody malicious? They might just be this is the

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