Friday, 9 August, 2019 UTC
Summary
Jerod, Feross, and Nick discuss the latest npm security fiasco, opine on the strengths and weaknesses of spreadsheets, explain CORS like they’re 5 (sorta), and give shout outs to deserving purveyors of fine software.
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Featuring
- Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links
Story of the week
- The episode’s namesake, Insider Logic Bombs
- The story on dude who outsourced his job to Chine
- Nick and Jerod have both been using Notion lately
- ‘No way to prevent this’ is satire, y’all
- The purescript/npm incident explained
ELI5
- Nick mentioned gifsockets, which might be the best hack of all time
- You’ll have to google the Hassehloffian Recursion yourself…
- If Feross’ explanation of the Zoom hack failed you, here’s a good one
- Read up on DNS rebinding for an upcoming ELI5 segment
Shout outs
- Jerod shouts out hpdang and FOSS Asia
- Feross shouts out Kyle Drake of neocities.org
- Nick shouts out coc.nvim