On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
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