Kik Interactive were total dicks and npm supported them.
Yet the lesson learned is that some random person might have control over their own code for a couple of hours and that would hurt business which is absolutely horrible. Think of the poor shareholders!
his tiny what?
penis
Package. His tiny (NodeJS) package.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
He was 100% correct in what he did.
Kik Interactive were total dicks and npm supported them.
Yet the lesson learned is that some random person might have control over their own code for a couple of hours and that would hurt business which is absolutely horrible. Think of the poor shareholders!
Yep.
This is why we self host any code we use, ensure we’re within licensing agreements and then code out anything that could fuck is this way.
Some of our work explicitly forbids fixing bugs upstream without an audit of what it tells and so we quickly fork and move past.
This dude did no wrong, it was his code and his package.