Coder Radio

By The Mad Botter

448: Fakers and Takers

🔊 Play episode (52 min)

Direct episode link

💬 Share episode

Published January 12, 2022 7:30am

Was he justified? Our thoughts on the dev who corrupted libraries in NPM for millions of users with his political statement about free software.

Plus how Google blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to control mobile messaging.

Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder

Links:Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps — The colors library receives over 20 million weekly downloads on npm alone and has almost 19,000 projects relying on it. Whereas, faker receives over 2.8 million weekly downloads on npm, and has ove...

Return to podcast