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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

688: Ex-npm Employee Making a New Package Manager?! Vlt with Darcy Clarke

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry.

0:02.0

Who I'm starving.

0:04.0

Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feed bag.

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West's boss attempt to use human language to converse with and pick the brains

0:15.4

of other developers.

0:16.4

I thought there was going to be food.

0:19.0

So buckle up and grab that O'Fid, because this ride is going to get wild.

0:26.1

This is the Syntax Supper Club.

0:38.3

Welcome to Syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. We've got Darcy Clark on today.

0:42.3

This is a pretty exciting episode for me because Darcy, among other things, he

0:47.3

was in my wedding party and he taught me much of what I know today. So I'm really excited to talk to him about all exciting

0:56.0

stuff that he's working on. He's working on a new package manager. We'll probably bait the title as like X NPM employee, builds new package

1:08.3

manager or something silly like that.

1:10.3

But welcome Darcy, thanks for coming on.

1:12.3

Thanks guys. Yeah, it's great to be on and I don't think I've taught you that much in the last decade or so so you've been on your own lives.

1:20.0

I've been on my own. So if anyone's curious about the story, I, when I was doing WordPress

1:29.9

Dev, I was still in like university and I got brought into this agency called Jet Cooper in Toronto

1:37.7

which was previous which was bought by Shopify. Now they are a good good chunk of Shopify. And Darcy was like the

1:47.6

literally the only dev there. And this guy was pulling like 28 hour days. cranking, we're just cranking beers, building websites.

1:57.0

I remember we, we, I didn't really do much work on that one, but like you built like a tweet wall where

2:05.7

It was a projector on like a like Holt Renfrew or something like that

2:11.4

And it would like pull tweets in and I remember we had to find a list of swear words and filter them out.

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