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One Man Deleted 11 Lines of Code from the Internet and Broke Apps

by absqueued on 11/30/24, 2:20 PM with 4 comments

• by speakingmoistly on 11/30/24, 3:11 PM

  I'm glad to see this come back up (even though the title frames the issue entirely backwards: it's less about one guy breaking things and more about the malpractice of building systems that are brittle from day one) because I don't think folks have really learned from the perils of unnecessary yet load-bearing dependencies.

  At the very least, I hope the conversation is still alive enough for groups to invest in mirror registries to have some form control over external dependency sources. At [previous gig], it's something that always felt like an expense that needs a lot of justification with the powers that be despite feeling like table stakes for keeping a revenue-generating app up in the long term.

• by alienself on 11/30/24, 5:56 PM

  People still use Kik? I wasn’t aware it was still a thing… using lawyers as a threat on an npm package is such a lame and small move…

• by hondadriver on 11/30/24, 3:18 PM

  The obligatory XKCD reference:

  https://xkcd.com/2347/

  BTW maybe you should add (2016) to the title.