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Charlie Eriksen and I sat down for a candid chat with Josh Junon, the maintainer of chalk and debug, who found himself at the center of one of the largest npm supply-chain attacks.

Josh talks openly about:
✅ How the phishing attack actually worked
✅ What…

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