Software Unscripted

My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell

Jun 27, 2023

57:23

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How to Write a Program That Can Tokenize JavaScript Code

2min

How to Battle Swapping Out a Chase Tokenizer

2min

The Importance of Left Pad in JavaScript

2min

How to Use Left Padding in Your Source Code

2min

How to Copy Paste Code

3min

The Problem With Taking Down a Popular Package

2min

How to Modularize Line Numbers

2min

The Importance of Culture in the Ecosystem

3min

10.

The Importance of Having Less Dependencies

5min

11.

The Importance of Technical Constraints in the L-Me Package Ecosystem

2min

12.

The Importance of Dependency Free Packages

3min

13.

How to Scope Your Standard Library

2min

14.

The Importance of Implementation in JavaScript

2min

15.

The Advantages of Making Elm Opacity

4min

16.

The Strange Truth About Open Source Programming

2min

17.

How to Make Your Own Projects

2min

18.

The Importance of Formatting JavaScript Code

2min

19.

The Importance of Culture in a Big Project

2min

20.

The Importance of Having One Person Contribute to a Project

3min

21.

How to Communicate Your Vision With Your Team

3min

22.

The Importance of Backwards Compatibility in JavaScript

2min

23.

How to Fix a Bug in a Release

2min

24.

The Importance of Compatibility in Languages

3min

Richard talks with Simon Lydell, a programmer whose open-source JavaScript work ended up contributing to what might be the most infamous package-related outage in programming history. In addition to talking about that story, they also talk about open source in general, breaking changes in general, and specific projects like CoffeeScript, Prettier, Elm, and Roc.

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