Leftpad: 11 lines of code that broke the internet in 2016
Fri Dec 27 2019 19:07:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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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/
Comments
@factsheet12345 - Sun Dec 29 2019 19:27:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)It only "broke" for about 2 hours. Not as dramatic as the title suggests