Which one? I’m willing to bet there’s several.
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Aermis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Does anyone know that story of some file or system that do many users rely on in their own infrastructure but it’s maintained by like 1 dude on his free time?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
everett@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
xz, a case-in-point example of one way things can go wrong.
jbrjake@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: …medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-g…
An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instance…
pelya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CURL got some kind of contract with several embedded hardware manufacturers, at least it’s financially stable.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Stardew valley?
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Here's the link to the ExplainXKCD about this image.
The one mentioned is the node.js story. It wasn't a long term thing, as it was just a matter of replacing the code and many had their own local versions and weren't relying on a core source like others that broke. But dependency, no redundancy, not breaking gracefully, they all are avoidable problems that are all around waiting for whatever little block topples for them.