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Saddened to hear this. As a former GitHub employee, Mona was _a thing_. She had a backstory, and obviously a lot of designs. Simon’s initial work had a lot of impact on GitHub’s de…

Thanks for everything, Cliff. I discovered _The Cuckoo’s Egg_ as a child, and was taken in. I wrote a book report on it... and then I wrote a book report on it the next year... and…

This is delightful and I can't wait to try it out. Right now, the libgit2 project ( https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 ) has a custom HTTP git server wrapper that will throttle the…

Yes, that’s definitely the Copper Kettle. More interesting than the food, though, is the background. Those who aren’t familiar with Cambridge will see King’s College in the backgro…

There’s no confusion about it referring to a dwelling. The confusion is about the _type_ of dwelling. To quote Wikipedia: > In American English, "cottage" is one term for such holi…

Product Manager for Vercel's storage products here. Today we announced three new storage products in beta; they're based on infrastructure that are provided by partners. There's a …

I was fortunate enough to go in 2019, pre-covid, while I had a day off in Seattle. It was a great museum, and I’m disappointed that I won’t be able to go back. I tweeted a bunch of…

No - your local server will still listen for webhooks, but they'll come from the proxy's client software. Basically, you set up your GitHub webhook URL as the proxy server (for exa…

Neat stuff - certainly this problem crops up quite a lot where an internal server needs to get GitHub webhook data. In the past, I've had good luck using a webhook proxy. I've most…

Thanks. The "commit and hope for the best" problem really resonates with me. There are two great projects that might provide some pain relief - nektos/act or rhysd/actionlint. But …

Thanks for the feedback! I'm one of the PMs for GitHub Actions, and I appreciate this. Thinking about Actions as a set of primitives that you can compose is very much how I think a…

That's probably not what you want. Checking out an ID would put you in a detached HEAD state, and the CLI will give you the page of warning messages that go along with it. I think …

GitHub turns off rename detection and turns off recursive base-building when creating merge commits in pull requests. Both of these selections would cause differences in when a mer…

That's certainly possible, but libgit2 carries an _exhaustive_ test corpus around merge as we aim to be bug-for-bug compatible with git-merge-recursive. This was also proved out by…

tl;dr: this is a MSCCI plug-in for git, for compatibility with (quite) old versions of Visual Studio. This is impressive work. I've used the MSCCI API on several projects - MSCCI i…

frood: noun (in dogs) a thickly furred section between the forelegs, covering the upper upper surface of the hind legs; a hindleg "a ferret with an astonishing, yet brief, frood" D…

Right, but when you write C, C++ and Swift directly you can also make a program that _doesn't_ leak memory. The question posed was whether that's even possible in Ć?

Product Manager for npm here. That was correct. As part of our integration, we were not excluding withdrawn advisories. We've since corrected this. Apologies!

No, there's no reason why that isn't available. This is a very sensible request and we'll add this information to the context available to workflow runs.

> Sometimes the checkout action fetches the wrong commit! I'm a product manager at GitHub, and I'm investigating this now. Feel free to drop me an email (ethomson@github.com) if yo…

Product Manager at GitHub here - I'll be the Product Manager for npm when the acquisition closes. I agree - npm is definitely an integral part of the JavaScript ecosystem. The npm …

Yes, I love those. We'll keep those around for sure.