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Github outages are the bored engineer's equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you were in school, full of unbridled joy. For engaged, happy engineers

by maxcan 4y ago

Github outages are the bored engineer's equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you were in school, full of unbridled joy. For engaged, happy engineers its the equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you are grown up and have to go dig your car out of the snow and its a normal day just with extra steps.

naikrovek 4y ago
Not really. I'd rather be getting stuff done. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit: oopsie I misread.
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- mort96 4y ago
  Would you characterise yourself as a bored engineer?
  - naikrovek 4y ago
    today I might characterize myself as someone who made a mistake while reading a comment, and replied to the mistaken understanding instead of the intended one.
ramigb 4y ago
I can be both bored and engaged, don't test me buddy /s
lysergia 4y ago
> equivalent of getting a surprise snow day Not if you self-host Git
- capableweb 4y ago
  Self-hosting Git is easy, throw up a ssh server and point git to it. Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. Which is why they are building out all of those things, they don't want people to move to other places so easily. Hopefully these constant outages makes more developers pissed off that issues are not stored in git as well, and start working on tooling to solve this shitty problem once and for all. P2P/Local First software for everyone! \o/
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    > Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. You can self-host the whole of GitHub can’t you?
    - capableweb 4y ago
      As far as I know, you can self-host an enterprise version of GitHub, but it'll still be available from one location (the server you deploy it on). I cannot run it locally and federate with my colleagues instances for example, just like I can with Git.
  - lionkor 4y ago
    gitlab
    - capableweb 4y ago
      GitLab is not P2P/Local First software like Git itself. It suffers from exactly the same problem as GitHub, reliance on a central server (which is run either by the company making the product, or by your own team). What I'm talking about is being able to access everything like issues, wikis, PRs and whatever, even when you're 100% offline.
      - lionkor 4y ago
        fair, i'd love that!
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by maxcan 4y ago

naikrovek 4y ago

Not really. I'd rather be getting stuff done. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit: oopsie I misread.

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mort96 4y ago
Would you characterise yourself as a bored engineer?
- naikrovek 4y ago
  today I might characterize myself as someone who made a mistake while reading a comment, and replied to the mistaken understanding instead of the intended one.

ramigb 4y ago

I can be both bored and engaged, don't test me buddy /s

lysergia 4y ago

> equivalent of getting a surprise snow day Not if you self-host Git

capableweb 4y ago
Self-hosting Git is easy, throw up a ssh server and point git to it. Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. Which is why they are building out all of those things, they don't want people to move to other places so easily. Hopefully these constant outages makes more developers pissed off that issues are not stored in git as well, and start working on tooling to solve this shitty problem once and for all. P2P/Local First software for everyone! \o/
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  > Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. You can self-host the whole of GitHub can’t you?
  - capableweb 4y ago
    As far as I know, you can self-host an enterprise version of GitHub, but it'll still be available from one location (the server you deploy it on). I cannot run it locally and federate with my colleagues instances for example, just like I can with Git.
- lionkor 4y ago
  gitlab
  - capableweb 4y ago
    GitLab is not P2P/Local First software like Git itself. It suffers from exactly the same problem as GitHub, reliance on a central server (which is run either by the company making the product, or by your own team). What I'm talking about is being able to access everything like issues, wikis, PRs and whatever, even when you're 100% offline.
    - lionkor 4y ago
      fair, i'd love that!

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