59: I Wish They Wouldn't Do That - a podcast by thoughtbot

Derek and Sean discuss the left-pad saga, how other programming communities are reacting to it, and what you should learn from it as a library or application author.

• Bash on Ubuntu on Windows


• I’ve Just Liberated My Modules by Azer Koçulu


• A discussion about the breaking of the internet (Kik’s side of the story) by Mike Roberts


• Kik, left-pad, and npm by Isaac Z. Schlueter from npm


• npm Package Hijacking: From the Hijackers Perspective by Nathan Johnson


• Is gem yank a security concern?


• Kill Your Dependencies by Mike Perham


• To gem, or not to gem by Elle Meredith


• changes to npm’s unpublish policy by Ashley Williams from npm


• ApplicationRecord in Rails 5

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