It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!
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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Istari: level the digital playing field
AWS Re:invent keynote Blue Origin
Frictionless book
Jevons paradox
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Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke
Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn have long been the core of the JavaScript ecosystem, enabling developers to install, update, and share code with ease. But as projects grow larger and the ecosystem more complex, this older infrastructure is beginning to show its limits with performance bottlenecks, dependency conflicts, and growing concerns around supply chain security.
Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are veterans of this ecosystem. Both spent years maintaining the npm CLI and helping guide the Node.js project, where they saw firsthand the technical debt and design tradeoffs that define modern JavaScript tooling. Now they’re building vlt, a new package manager and registry that rethinks performance, security, and developer experience from the ground up.
In this episode, Darcy and Ruy join Josh Goldberg to discuss how vlt works, why they believe package management needs a server-side reboot, what lessons they’ve drawn from npm’s evolution, and how features like declarative querying, self-hosted registries, and real-time security scanning could reshape how developers build and share JavaScript in the years ahead.
Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.
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Of agents & agency (Friends)
Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Revenge of the junior developer
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688: Ex-npm Employee Making a New Package Manager?! Vlt with Darcy Clarke
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?
Sick Picks Flat Coat Goldendoodle
Scientific American
Nespresso
BlackBerry (2023) - IMDb
BlackBerry (2023) Letterboxd
Matthias Wandel
Blink-182 Official Site
Moneen
Bring Me The Horizon
Shameless Plugs vlt: a new home for open source
Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
The massive bug at the heart of npm
Darcy Clarke, former GitHub Staff Engineering Manager and founder of vlt, joins us to discuss a major bug in the npm ecosystem that he recently disclosed. We cover the bug’s timeline, nuances, and impact, all while setting some important context on npm packages, clients, and registries. Tune in to learn how to protect your codebase and gain a deeper understanding of this crucial part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Darcy / vlt’s blog post on this massive npm bug
Feross / Socket’s follow-up blog post in this issue
Refactor Conf - Darcy & Feross will be speaking in July
Verdaccio (not to be mistaken with Versace) - an open source npm registry proxy
Github layoffs for engineering team in India
Bug filled July 28th, 2022 related to binding.gyp and triaged on October 22nd, 2022
Darcy’s original test POC from Nov 2nd, 2022
Darcy’s POC from March 8th, 2023 which was used in the HackerOne report to Github
Legacy docs for npm publish params
Tool for checking packages for manifest mismatches
Great resource for security acronyms
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It’s Not a Data Science Problem, It’s a Data Engineering Problem with Laurie Voss
About Laurie
Laurie has been a web developer for 25 years and cares deeply about making the web bigger and better for everyone. He previously co-founded awe.sm and npm, and is currently a Senior Data Analyst at Netlify.
Links:
Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/seldo
Personal website: https://seldo.com/
Let's replace your kidney with React
Ahmad Nassri returns to the party for a deep, nuanced discussion around the thoughts he shared in a recent blog post called Solving Solved Problems. We hear about the common issue Ahmad’s seen at software shops of all sizes, learn the anatomy of the total cost of software ownership, and debate what to build and what to buy.
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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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Solving Solved Problems
JS Party #107 - Modular software architecture
The Changelog #185 – Kong, APIs, Microservices
Indigo Ag
The Changelog #362 – Machine powered refactoring with AST’s
Kyle Simpson @getify - Tyranny of complexity
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Modular software architecture
Jerod and Divya welcome npm CTO Ahmad Nassri to discuss modular architecture. What it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it. Ahmad has been thinking deeply about this topic lately and we have a very fruitful discussion that should have takeaways for developers of all experience levels.
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Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Listen to Ahmad’s epic backstory on The Changelog #185
Read Ahmad’s slide deck on modern patterns in modular architecture
Check out Framer
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Machine powered refactoring with AST's (Interview)
Amal Hussein (Engineering Manager at npm) joined the show to talk about AST’s — aka, abstract syntax trees. Amal is giving a talk at All Things Open on the subject so we asked her to give us an early preview. She’s on a mission to democratize the knowledge and usage of AST’s to push legacy code and the web forward.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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We’ll be at All Things Open! We’re hosting a LIVE JS Party on stage and Jerod Santo is giving a talk on using Svelte for a radical new approach to building user interfaces. And as a special thanks from the team behind All Things Open, we’re giving away 5 free passes to the conference. All you have to do tweet “I want a free pass to All Things Open because…” and state your reason and copy @Changelog and @AllThingsOpen in the tweet.
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Amal’s talk at All Things Open — Machine powered refactoring: leverage AST’s to push your legacy code (& the web) forward
AllThingsOpen.org
AST Explorer
StranglerFigApplication
Abstract syntax tree on Wikipedia
The Web Platform podcast
Jscodeshift
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Federating JavaScript's language commons with Entropic (Interview)
We’re joined by C J Silverio, aka ceejbot on Twitter, aka 2nd hire and former CTO at npm Inc. We talk with Ceej about her recent JS Conf EU talk titled “The Economies of Open Source” where she laid our her concerns with the JavaScript language commons being owned by venture capitalists. Currently the JavaScript language commons is controlled by the npm registery, and as you may know, npm is a VC backed for profit start up. Of course we also talk with Ceej about the bomb she dropped, Entropic, at the end of that talk — a federated package registry for JavaScript C J hopes will unseat npm and free the JavaScript language commons.
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The Economies of Open Source
entropic.dev
npm, Inc. has a new CEO (Bryan Bogensberger)
JS Party #82: LIVE from NodeConf Colombia featuring Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater & James Snell — We’re linking to the transcript to point out what Kat Marchán said at NodeConf Colombia
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LIVE from NodeConf Colombia
KBall MC’d a live show at NodeConf Colombia with a panel of 4 experts from the Node community — Kat Marchán, Anna Henningsen, Ruben Bridgewater, and James Snell. It was a great discussion about the future of Node.js and the Node.js ecosystem.
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Anna Henningsen – GitHub, X
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James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Faster async functions and promises
Zero Cost Async Stack Traces
Worker Threads in Node.js
Node.js multithreading: What are Worker Threads and why do they matter?
Tink - Next Generation Package Management
WASM
WASI
Lua
BOB streams
Cloudflare workers
ECMAScript Modules in Node
ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan
QUIC
Rust
Deno
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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above
KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.
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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Standards & Opening the Black Box
TC39 on GitHub
Myles Borins
Daniel Ehrenberg
Maggie Pint
TC39 proposals
The TC39 Process
How to join ECMA
Jory’s talk on Standardizing JavaScript
On the distribution of stakeholders
Representing Web Developers in W3C
On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript
Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite
Contributing to the Conformance Test Suite
On the Boundaries of the Spec
JS Party episode covering error messages
On using JavaScript Proposals in Production
ASTs
Amal’s talk on ASTs for Refactoring
Esprima
Babel parser
Acorn
Dojo upgrade tool (using ASTs)
Awesome AST
Other
Bocoup
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The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript
In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm and the Future of JavaScript”, JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of “the fundamentals of the web” is constantly changing.
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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Laurie’s Talk:
npm and the Future of JavaScript slides
npm and the Future of JavaScript recording from NEJS
Methodology of Survey blog post
React Everywhere
React Native
React Desktop
React Router
Other References
CommonJS
WASM
Backbone
Gutenberg
Yarn
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npm is made of people. PEOPLE!
Jerod, Nick, and Chris talk with Jeff Lembeck about his tweets, the people behind npm, the need for empathy, and things they’re excited about.
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Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Jeff’s Twitter Thread
Nick is excited about TypeScript 3.0
Chris is excited about mkdirp PR in node by Ben Coe
Mark Reeder is excited about Fusion.js
Jerod is excited about podcast subscriber counts
Jeff is excited about Discourse
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The state of Node security
Suz Hinton, Christopher Hiller, and Jerod Santo talk with Adam Baldwin about his company being acquired by NPM, the security of Node, best practices, and more.
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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
npm Acquires ^Lift Security and the Node Security Platform
The Node.js Project Introduces Latest Release Line: Node.js 10.x
Announcing npm@6
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Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee
Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.
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Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
npm@5
npm v5.0.0
cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.
Sheetsee
Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup
Picks!
chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
Medieval Fantasy City Generator
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JavaScript and Robots (Interview)
Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, and more.
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Show Notes:
Google Search “You can’t be it if you can’t see it”
Beyond Code with Amanda Shih
Reactive Podcast
rockbot/vektor
Smart Latinas Get The Party Started
JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone
squishy circuits - Google Search
Donovan Buck (@dtex) on Twitter
#187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov
#149: React.js, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL with Facebook
#113: Scale npm with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins
npm camp
Rockbot | Music For Business. Jukebox App for Customers.
Colleen Bot (@CJBot) on Twitter
Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) on Twitter
React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Feross on GitHub
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Kong, APIs, Microservices (Interview)
Ahmad Nassri from Mashape joined the show to talk about Kong, an open-source management layer for APIs and Microservices.
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Show Notes:
Ahmad’s life story blogged
Kong
Kong’s plugin gallery
Justin Dorfman pinged us
Mashape - Powering API Driven Software
NginX adds JavaScript scripting
Lua
Cassandra
Issue to add Postgres support to Kong
Hero: Grace Hopper
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Ep. 32 - Rockbot (Raquel Velez)
You probably know her as rockbot, the username that captures her passion for robotics. In this episode, developer Raquel Velez shares that passion with us, telling us all about competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge, how she feels about self-driving cars, and gives us a beginner-friendly walkthrough of how a robot works.
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DARPA Grand Challenge
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Sensor Fusion
Rubber Duck Problem Solving
Version Control
Mechanical Engineering
Codeland Conf
Codeland 2019
Raquel Velez
Raquel Vélez is a Senior Software Developer at npm, Inc. in Oakland, CA. She is fairly certain that laughter and chocolate will cure everything, and uses robots as an excuse to get people excited about code and math.
Front-end Developer Interview Questions (Interview)
Darcy Clarke joined the show to talk about his repo on the HTML5 Boilerplate org on GitHub “Front-end Developer Interview Questions”. We discussed why the repo has been so successful, the challenges of translating a text document into multiple languages, managing contributions, the art of interviewing, how the expectations of front-end developers have evolved over time, and how to stay relevant in our fast moving industry.
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Featuring:
Darcy Clarke – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Darcy is the creator of the Front-end Developer Interview Questions project on the H5BP org on GitHub – it’s “a list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.”
At the end of the episode, we turned the tables on Darcy and asked him a few questions from the list.
“The goal is to try to have the (interview) question be more open ended, and hopefully it starts a discussion between the interviewer and interviewee.” - Darcy Clarke @ 12:28
“This document is like a high school english assignment, with over 100 group members, and they all have differing opinions, and there’s a ton of different subjects… It’s the worst kind of open source project.” - Darcy Clarke @ 22:56
h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
darcyclarke (Darcy Clarke)
darcyclarke/DSS
Front-end Job Interview Questions | Darcy Clarke
What I learned interviewing with Google | Wes Bos
Join us on The Changelog (today?) · Issue #258 · h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
How io.js built a 146 person, 27 language localization effort… in one day. — Medium
auduno/clmtrackr
The Changelog #67: HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish
Flipboard/react-canvas
Paul Irish
Wes Bos
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Keep npm Running (Interview)
Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins joined the show to talk about the “crashyness” of npm recently and the community fundraiser they are starting to ask the community to support npm and to keep it running. Isaac is the creator of npm and a maintainer of Node.js. Charlie is the co-founder and CEO of Nodejitsu.
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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
You are npm. Keep it running. Keep it awesome.
npm (npmjs) on Twitter
Charlie Robbins (indexzero) on Twitter
I Zimmitti S (izs) on Twitter
#101: npm origins and Node.js with Isaac Schlueter - The Changelog
Nodejitsu Open Source Hosting
Go Enterprise with node.js and npm | Nodejitsu Inc.
Nodejitsu | CrunchBase Profile
Billion Dollar Question - Palo Alto - Developer Center - Joyent
@svenlito: “As a Developer I want super fast npm” - Everyone, always.
Trent Mick (trentmick) on Twitter
trentm/node-dashdash
#99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg - The Changelog
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npm Origins and Node.js (Interview)
Andrew and Adam talk with Isaac Schlueter about the origins of npm, building an asynchronous web with Node.js, and how to get paid to open source.
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Andrew Thorp – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
Foo Hack » Isaac Schlueter on Web Development
isaacs (izs) on Twitter
isaacs/npm
Install Node.js and NPM using Homebrew on OS X - Changelog
node.js
BOWER: A package manager for the web
Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
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