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by fold_left 1625 days ago
Checking in your dependencies with https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack can help insulate you from these problems until you're ready to face them. I created this before left-pad and thankfully meant that we were unaffected.

A lot of developers, understandably, baulk at checking in dependencies, but there is a concrete benefit in being able to continue uninterrupted during outages.