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Ben Halpern

leftpad had a real influence on my approach to software development.

This post left me with some real food for thought that taught me to take a more deliberate approach with some of my choices in software.

davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we...

And the whole thing just helped me confirm that this whole industry is, in fact, kind of just a bunch of stuff tied together as best as possible. Any system can fail and we have to be able to deal with this as best we can on average. We'll never have a perfect flawless ecosystem.