Using somebody's stuff is different than hot-linking directly to a hosted version of it, even just from the perspective that dude could delete it at any time and break the whole app.

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trimethylpurine 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's fair. I download and embed, personally. Still, it's not a rant worthy mistake, honestly. Suggest a better approach, sure.

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array_key_first 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's definitely a rant worthy mistake because this would literally never happen in any professional app anywhere. This is a supply chain risk.

	▲	trimethylpurine an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft? Okta? JetBrains? If these are amateurs, who is a professional developer? https://www.encryptionconsulting.com/top-10-supply-chain-att... Are you aware that common libraries like Bootstrap, FontAwesome, and HTMX walk developers through linking to their CDNs directly? In fact, FontAwesome recommends it for CDN performance. I think you're dangerously mistaken if you believe that it "literally never" happens. It literally does happen all the damned time. And, for your own safety and others', you should assume that when you use any app for which you don't have the source code.