In 2016, a developer unpublished an 11-line JavaScript package called 'left-pad' after a legal dispute, and suddenly thousands of websites and apps worldwide started crashing. We explore how this tiny piece of code that just adds spaces to text strings became a critical dependency for major companies, and what it reveals about the surprisingly fragile house of cards that powers our digital world. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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