Zowie. Worth a read. Here's an excerpt:
"Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. A couple of hours ago, Azer Koçulu unpublished more than 250 of his modules from NPM, which is a popular package manager used by JavaScript projects to install dependencies. Unfortunately, one of those dependencies was left-pad..."
Here's the full article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/