To Be Continuous - 19: Have We Forgotten How To Code?
Paul and Edith discuss the fallout from left-pad
To Be Continuous - 19: Have We Forgotten How To Code? launched on May 17, 2016 with 61 votes, #1,124 of 3,824 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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In this episode, Paul and Edith discuss the fallout after the widely covered ‘ left-pad ‘ incident, and while they agree that these sorts of moments move the entire open-source community forward, they wonder – have we forgotten how to code? In this episode, Paul and Edith discuss the fallout after the widely covered ‘ left-pad ‘ incident, and while they agree that these sorts of moments move the entire open-source community forward, they wonder – have we forgotten how to code? Edith: Hey Paul. Somebody unpublished a module called left-pad and the Internet basically exploded. Now, it's been a couple of weeks since then so there's a lot of different topics to cover in terms of what this means…from heavybit.com
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