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At least they brought attention to how bad it was to rely on NPM. If anyone doesn't remember, this is how the whole left-pad issue started: https://blog.npmjs.o
by choward 7y ago
At least they brought attention to how bad it was to rely on NPM. If anyone doesn't remember, this is how the whole left-pad issue started: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...
- asveikau 7y agoOff-topic, but pretty crazy that the timestamp of that blog post doesn't appear until the end, so you can be reading an article from 2016 and not immediately know that this was a few years ago.
- laughinghan 7y agoAll of tumblr works like that. Not defending, just contextualizing, and clarifying that NPM didn't make that specific design choice. Obviously, they chose to use tumblr, though.
- vxNsr 7y agoWell at the time tumblr was the blog platform of choice, now I'm sure they'd use medium
- gyrgtyn 7y agoNo one seemed to remember during the Chef thing!
- soneca 7y ago> "Given two packages vying for the name kik, we believe that a substantial number of users who type npm install kik would be confused to receive code unrelated to the messaging app with over 200 million users." So apparently the former Kik package would have outlived the company Kik despite its number of users.
- jessaustin 7y agoI think that was predicted on HN at the time...
- djsumdog 7y agoand don't forget, left pad as a service: http://left-pad.io/ http://left-pad.io/