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Left-Pad (2024)

It's been 8 years since the the left-pad incident happened. It's been a good choice to avoid this subject for focusing on actual work.

However, in this situation, a company like Kik Messenger was just posturing and exercising power over the open source community NPM was built on, sending threats such as "we'll bang on your door" and "take down your accounts". On the NPM side, I observed general condescending attitude towards developers, which led them make series of unreasonable decisions and ultimately blame me for all the cost. Several months after the left-pad incident, I quit my job and left US permanently, spent a year in Morocco, Jordan, Türkiye and Indonesia.

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