How One Programmer Broke the Internet By Deleting a Tiny Piece of Code
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A man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world in 2016 by deleting 11 lines of code.
  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
    2·
    9 months ago

    And the whole implementation of is-number which is at version 7.0.0:

    module.exports = function(num) {
  if (typeof num === 'number') {
    return num - num === 0;
  }
  if (typeof num === 'string' && num.trim() !== '') {
    return Number.isFinite ? Number.isFinite(+num) : isFinite(+num);
  }
  return false;
};

    The node.js ecosystem has always been madness.