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**Mikeal Rogers:** What?
**Alex Sexton:** The GitHub Octocat shadow person waves at you.
**Mikeal Rogers:** Oh yeah, I've used that embed before.
**Alex Sexton:** Oh, I haven't, so...
**Mikeal Rogers:** I think I used that one in Roll Call, actually.
**Alex Sexton:** "I'm Mikeal. I knew about everything beforehand."
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] That's the hipster JavaScript going on... I was into it before it was cool.
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah... That's why JavaScript bread is over now.
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Okay... Before we beat the horse to death, why don't we get into our picks? Does everybody have their personal picks ready?
**Jessica Lord:** Oh, gosh... I knew this was coming...
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Alex, do you wanna kick us off?
**Alex Sexton:** Uhm... Nope. Let's take a small break.
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[39:56\] \[laughs\] No, we don't need a break. So I have mine ready... Yeah, I let everybody know on the internets that I'm gonna be leaving the Node.js Foundation; there's a little blog post about it, and stuff like that. But yeah, after a few years of leading the foundation since we've started it,...
And the project is in very good hands... Everything is very, very good. It's a very positive thing. But yeah, I just want everybody to know that I'm gonna be unemployed, and...
**James Snell:** Come to Austin!
**Mikeal Rogers:** Is that where unemployed people go to retire?
**James Snell:** Well, it's warm... It's overly warm...
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Overly warm...
**Jessica Lord:** It's warm here in New York, too...
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, but in the next month or so, that's gonna turn into really muggy -- no, not muggy... Just like really humid and gross -- I've been in New York in the summer, it was not super fun. But I actually am gonna be in New York next month, so...
**Alex Sexton:** I was talking to someone yesterday and they were talking about how publishing hours often have like a half-day on Friday - like if you work in news at all, or something like that - because everyone who worked in newspapers was rich enough to get the hell out of the city on the weekends, so they'd all p...
**Mikeal Rogers:** I think I'm gonna slip this into my future employment contract... "I do half-days on Fridays, man..."
**Alex Sexton:** "I gotta get into the mountains... I don't have A/C."
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah, in the Bay... Escaping the heat of...
**Mikeal Rogers:** In the Bay Area, yeah... \[laughter\] Alright, do you all have picks now? Was that enough time for you to think of something?
**Jessica Lord:** I just went to my Instapaper and three of the top last things I saved were Tad, What's New In npm5 and What's New In Node 8, so I've got nothing...
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] You exhausted the list of things that you have around...
**Jessica Lord:** Yeah.
**Mikeal Rogers:** Okay.
**Alex Sexton:** So maybe I'll do some shameless self-promotion... My pick this is -- Stripe put out some new products this past week. I think Stripe Connect has a new version, and then also something -- I'm trying to remember the non-internal name... Stripe Sigma. You can go look at what those are, but very specifical...
\[43:06\] The Sigma page might as well be like a 3D C JavaScript that -- I don't know, it's really nifty. And then the other one uses some -- my very specific thing that I like about it is that it uses CSS Grid, which is kind of like a slightly useable thing on desktop modern browsers now - it's something we've talked ...
So this is like a little section with the class name of Stripe, so open up your console and go to the Stripe.com/Connect and look at the Stripe section for a beautiful designer usage of the CSS Grid. That's my pick for the week. That 10 lines of HTML and CSS. \[laughter\]
It's cool though, right? I'm always so excited when Stripe launches a new product, because "Cool, my company is doing something", but I'm really excited to see what the designers do for the landing page for those various products, because they're amazing. I love them. Shout out to Benjamin De Cock and Philipp Antoni. F...
**Mikeal Rogers:** Awesome. So on that note, I guess that's gonna take us out. Thank you everybody for coming on. Rate us on iTunes, or something like that. We're done a little bit early today, everybody can get some extra food. \[laughter\]
**Adam Stacoviak:** Or go shopping for a Tushy.
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughter\] Exactly. Can we get Tushy to sponsor us?
**Adam Stacoviak:** I don't see why they wouldn't...
**Break:** \[45:09\]
• Introduction and host introduction
• Background and motivation for npm@5 release
• Cache rewrite performance improvement (5x speed increase)
• Additional performance updates and improvements
• Usability improvements in npm@5, including default save functionality
• Symlink feature and its benefits for monorepo development
• Future plans and ongoing work on improving monorepo support
• Optimizing default behavior in npm
• Introducing new configuration options (--prefer-offline, --prefer-online)
• Planning for a "low-mem" mode to reduce memory usage
• Breaking down npm into smaller, reusable components
• Avoiding dependency hell and maintaining flat installs
• Providing building blocks for custom package managers
• npm 5 supports all sources, including Git, with new semver support
• npm 5 includes building and installing Git dependencies as step dependencies
• npm 5's registry and package lock differ from yarn in terms of performance and lockfile management
• npm 5 guarantees exact directory structure for installed modules, unlike yarn which only stores relationships between modules
• concerns about post-install scripts still exist, but can be mitigated by using ignore scripts or running code in a sandboxed environment
• there is ongoing work to prevent automated self-publishing worms and mitigate other security risks
• npm@5 issues with breaking changes
• Revisiting ecosystem concerns about scripts in package-lock.json and npm-shrinkwrap
• Known issues with npm@5 and plans for release
• Breakdown of changes in npm@5, including save by default and lockfile changes
• Shrinkwrap usage and compatibility with npm@5