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I’m a little stunned by “taste” as the defining factor, but GitHub has certainly brought the industry a long way! Whenever I’ve asked for help using GitHub (us
by sirspacey 2y ago
I’m a little stunned by “taste” as the defining factor, but GitHub has certainly brought the industry a long way!
Whenever I’ve asked for help using GitHub (usually because I’m getting back into coding) the dev helping me out stumbles, forgets, and is confused often. What’s surprising is that’s true no matter how senior they are.
GitHub did a ton to smooth out dev workflows, for sure, but there’s something almost intensely counter-intuitive about how it works and how easy it is to miss a step.
I’d assume good product taste is reasonably indexed to “intuitive to use” but GitHub doesn’t seem to achieve that bar.
What’s an example of GitHub’s good taste that I’m missing?
- echelon 2y agoHave you used SourceForge or SVN? Or sent a zip of files named "v23_backup_(copy).zip" to other engineers? Compared to everything that came before, Github may as well have been Nirvana.