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This is so true tho

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[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It was leftpad. A stupid little function that was used by like 90% of the internet, and it crashed everything during a name dispute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident