Listen "My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell"
Episode Synopsis
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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