We're dependent. See?

KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

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Featuring:

• Safia Abdalla – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• FOSSA is an open source dependency management tool.
• This package will analyze the licenses of the node.js modules in your project.
• Tidelift is a way for software teams to support open source projects.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!