Leftpad: 11 lines of code that broke the internet in 2016

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module.exports = leftpad;
function leftpad (str, len, ch){
   str = String(str);
   var i = -1;
   if (!ch && ch !== 0) ch = ' ';
   len = len - str.length;
   while (++i < len){
      str = ch + str;
   }
   return str;
}
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This story will always fascinate me. How one programmer's fight for open source against a corporate takeover led to him deleting a package nobody knew about. It crashed any site that ran javascript. A package that had just 11 lines of code.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/