“Please Microsoft, I beg you. My penis is starting to get sores from all the sex I am having due to being unable to do any work.”
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Also moving all my stuff to codeberg.org
I understand it’s a joke, but really isnt the entire point of git is to be able to work locally as much as you want without affecting the remote repo and vice versa
Git allows me to write code as much as I want. But GitHub does more than just Git. If you don’t remember the details of the next task you need to work on and GitHub is down, that’s a problem. As a senior I spend a lot of time reviewing PRs. That’s considerably harder when GitHub is down.
I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it’s an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.
We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn’t even have to be gitlab, there’s gitea and like 10 other options.
I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it’s lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.
Github has self-hosted options as well
I’m the only person at my (small startup) company who has the skills to maintain a GitLab instance. Been there, done that, never fucking again. I HATE maintenance. We’re probably going to migrate to some other platform since GitHub is intent on turning to shit.
In 2014 I set up GitLab for my then employer. It had to be something self hosted because of client requirements. I was apparently the only one in a company of about 200 that knew anything about Linux.
Wasn’t too bad, just keeping it up to date etc. When I left in 2016 I’d just upgraded the server to ubuntu 16.04. It’s probably still running that now. I know someone who is still there and they’ve said GitLab itself hasn’t been updated since I left.
I set up and maintained a GitLab instance and GitLab CI runners for five years. It was fine. I still hated it. I loath maintaining infrastructure.
Sounds like you don’t really have the skill to maintain it.
24/7 maintenance is more a hassle issue than a skill issue.
There is something wrong with it, when it needs 24/7 maintenance.
Not maintaining 24/7.
Responding to any incident within x minutes at any time of the day or night, everyday of the year.
which is absolutely true until you wire your CI pipeline through it. Now it’s a critical fucking deploy function for dev/stage/QA and maybe prod now with workflows.
You can run the pipelines locally. But it’s complicated so it’s better have your own scripts and keep the pipeline short.
There are more ways to set up a pipeline than there are ways to shuffle a deck of cards.
Everybody seems to like to tie back into online services. People like github workflows, and using NPMs and external DNS and docker Deps and JFrog. By the time you chain all those SLAs together you’ve got a bucket of risk the size of a small bus.
I try to push them as much as possible to use straight up bash scripts, and then call those with automation.
If it were solely up to me, I’d host my own repositories, but at some point, risk and safety end up losing out to some extent to features and feasibility.
You can do all that stuff without cloud services. Which IMO is the better way to do it. It’s absolutely insane to me what people send to cloud services
Soo, don’t do that?
For some reason tons of developers moved that amazing concept to depend as much on Microsoft cloud as possible for their workflows.
GitHub has actions etc. a lot of people don’t build locally. They push to GitHub and it builds, tests, deployed, does checks etc
You should be able to replicate at least some of that locally. If you can’t work with GitHub down for a couple of hours, then it’s a poorly set up project.
Tell me you don’t actually code enterprise without telling me you don’t actually code enterprise.
Nah. If your entire dev team has to be on pause when github is down, you’re doing it wrong. Especially enterprise.
Use Codeberg! Mostly up, immediately filters AI grifters, and isn’t tied to Micro$lop.
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Pretty sure they don’t allow private repos. Great for open source projects though.
They have private repos, they’re paid though.
There are other Forgejo hosts though, and of course you can host your own. Codefloe allows private repos and has a free tier, but apparently has paid tiers for when you want to use more resources
I don’t really get this joke as I’m not a developer but does it have something to do with that thing where I try to search the site and it tells me it’s getting too many requests from my IP, even though I haven’t searched it in a month?
GitHub is where a lot of companies store their source code, so many software development workflows require it to be available. For a while it had fantastic uptime, but since Microslop started shoving vibe coded updates its reliability has cratered.
GitHub being up really does feel like a limited-time event now. Better push while the servers are feeling generous.
Anyone got a good graph summarizing this decline over the last few years? Kind of want to show coworkers
