Jamie Magee

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You’re about to ship a product. Legal asks for the third-party notices, so you generate an SBOM, and half the dependencies come back as NOASSERTION . You can’t put that in a NOTICE file, and legal won’t sign off on it. I’ve spent a lot of late nights writing those files by hand, so this is the talk I gave about the…

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Honey, I shrunk the NPM package

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Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the surface of an npm package? At its heart, it’s nothing more than a gzipped tarball. Working in software development, source code and binary artifacts are nearly always shipped as .tar.gz or .tgz files. And gzip compression is supported by every HTTP server and web browser…