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The world is changing too fast for humans to understand
Episode 377
Josh and Kurt talk about PyPI suspending new accounts and packages for a day, and a 60 minutes story about deepfakes. The problems are mostly the sam…
3 years, 1 month ago
Open Source Summit, who built your open source, and AI
Episode 376
Josh and Kurt talk about the Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Josh was there and we pick on two observations. Firstly that security keeps trying to u…
3 years, 1 month ago
The market forces of left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 2
Episode 375
Josh and Kurt finish up the leftpad discussion. We spent a lot of time talking about how the market will respond to these sort of events, and the mar…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 374 - The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1
Episode 374
Josh and Kurt revisit Episode 77, which was named "npm and the supply chain" but was a discussion about the incident we all know now as "leftpad". We…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 373 – HHGG security, Episode 42 remaster part 2
Episode 373
This is the second part of remastering Episode 42 which is all about the security in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. It's a fun show and…
3 years, 2 months ago
HHGG security, remaster part 1
Episode 372
The podcast is on a hiatus for a little while due to some personal matters, but that creates an opportunity to remaster some fun old episodes. These …
3 years, 2 months ago
pip install is the tool we deserve but not the tool we need
Episode 371
Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post about pip and virtual environments. This eventually turns into a larger conversation around packaging tools and …
3 years, 2 months ago
Open Source is bigger than you can imagine
Episode 370
Josh and Kurt talk about some data on the size of NPM. Josh wrote a blog post and a report about the amount of SEO spam in NPM was released. Open sou…
3 years, 3 months ago
OpenAI broke ChatGPT then tried to blame open source
Episode 369
Josh and Kurt talk about OpenAI having a bug in ChatGPT, then they tried to blame open source. It didn't go very well. In this episode Josh and Kurt …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Sovereign Tech Fund with Fiona Krakenbürger
Episode 368
Josh and Kurt talk to Fiona Krakenbürger about the Sovereign Tech Fund. This is a fund created by Germany to fund important open source projects. Fio…
3 years, 3 months ago