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Your npm install Just Ran Someone Else's Code
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Your npm install Just Ran Someone Else's Code

Supply chain security is not a dependency problem. It is a trust delegation problem. And the system was never designed to handle the weight.

Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation
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Why Nobody Reads Your Documentation

Documentation stopped being true and the system had no mechanism to detect the loss. This is not a story about documentation. Not really.

The Database Is the Product
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The Database Is the Product

The application was never the product. It was the collection mechanism. The database underneath it was the thing everyone was actually building.