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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

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

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Droppin' insider logic bombs