A story from awhile back about how one open-source change disrupted thousands of sites.
Modifying shared Open Source code needs to follow the motto of Doing No Harm, but you don’t always know the effect of small changes.
https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/
Another telling of same tail: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/
No comments:
Post a Comment