Stardew valley?
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Aermis@lemmy.world 4 months 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?
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
everett@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
xz, a case-in-point example of one way things can go wrong.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 months 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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which one? I’m willing to bet there’s several.
jbrjake@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
CURL got some kind of contract with several embedded hardware manufacturers, at least it’s financially stable.