which is owned by microslop

GitLab is right there. And overall provides a better product than GitHub, if nothing else on these two points:

* You can actually have an organisational structure (folders/namespaces), and projects can be moved around with automatic redirects. Also, inheritance of access controls, variables between the namespaces

* GitLabCI is organised in a way that makes supply chain attacks less of a risk. GitHub Actions takes the NPM/JS approach, where every step is an action, one you usually need to get off someone, with shoddy versioning, tons of transient dependencies, etc. In GitLabCI you can have templates, but you don't have to use an external template for every bit. It's shell scripting on top of containers, so you can have custom container images with your stuff, or custom scripts, or templates that bundle it all.

I bet 10 dollars it's DNS.

  It's not DNS
  There's no way it's DNS
  It was DNS

It's likely someone just ran npm ls -all

We added a preflight curl against registry.npmjs.org before the install step in CI. Not surprising they went down together.

Can't have any vulnerabilities if you don't have a supply chain

More seriously, keeping a local cache of external npm packages, and a local artifact storage for internal npm packages looks like a wise thing to have done long ago. Might be cheaper in the long run.

Ironically, both Nandu and Verdaccio are implemented in Tyepscript and install via npm.

(Same logic obviously applies to Python packages, Docker images, etc.)

lots of amazon pages & search seem to be degraded as well

Azure is completely dead across multiple resources. Confirming....