Show Notes
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet!
Show Notes- 00:32 Welcome
- 01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day
- 08:54 How did you land at npm?
- npm
- 19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry?
- 22:11 What is vlt volt?
- vlt: a new home for open source
- vlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X
- Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
- Bun
- Yarn
- Nx
- 27:18 Do you see a future where we don’t pre-compile before shipping?
- 29:32 Why would pnpm be faster than npm?
- 31:14 What are the problems with symlinking?
- 33:08 What’s happening with Yarn?
- Verdaccio
- Cloudsmith
- jfrong
- Sonatype
- socket.dev
- Snyk.io
- Dependency Confusion
- 37:42 What do you think about config files?
- antfu Config of File Nesting for VS Code
- The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
- WebTorrent
- 41:02 VS Code tip - file nesting patterns
- 41:59 How does on-prem registry work?
- 47:29 Where does Socket.dev and Snyk security fit?
- 52:46 Sick Picks
- 04:41 How did you get vlt.sh?
- 05:30 How did you get @Darcy?
- Flat Coat Goldendoodle
- Scientific American
- Nespresso
- BlackBerry (2023) - IMDb
- BlackBerry (2023) Letterboxd
- Matthias Wandel
- Blink-182 Official Site
- Moneen
- Bring Me The Horizon
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