Kris Brandow
Fallthrough
He Who Controls the Source
- Published
- May 16, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 25m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Aug 16, 2026
Discusses This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm suppl…
Summary
This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm supply chain and close on the messy economics of who actually pays for open source labor. And there's plenty of great stuff in between: GitHub's everything-platform creep, the case for LLMs as a way out of dependency hell, and the forge alternatives finally matu…
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This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm supply chain and close on the messy economics of who actually pays for open source labor. And there's plenty of great stuff in between: GitHub's everything-platform creep, the case for LLMs as a way out of dependency hell, and the forge alternatives finally maturing into real options.We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes an expansion on Kris's "pull requests as original sin" t