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Re: Days since last GitHub incident

#11
This is a bit... low-effort, isn't it? I'd at least expect a video of an exasperated Github user walking up to the '# days since the last GitHub incident' board, sliding out the '1' or '2' card, and replacing it with a '0'.

I mean, that joke is as old as the universe (heck, in the brief period that I worked in an office, decades ago, I had a "# days since the last person asked a stupid question" sign to enact the exact same gag)...

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

#13

This is a bit... low-effort, isn't it? I'd at least expect a video of an exasperated Github user walking up to the '# days since the last GitHub incident' board, sliding out the '1' or '2' card, and replacing it with a '0'. I mean, that joke is as old as the universe (heck, in the brief period that I worked in an office, decades ago, I had a "# days since the last person asked a stupid question" sign to enact the exa…

Or an octocat standing in front of the board, holding cards from 0 to 7 in its tentacles (with the rest lying on the ground) and looking at them quizzically?

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

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because Microsoft are known for listening to their customers? this trivial bug fix took more than a year to be merged: https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157 that bug likely ended up costing customers millions

Why is Microsoft supposed to listen? I'm not happy with them either but I understand their shift in business strategy.

So many people here treat github like it's a utility; it's not. If you're not happy with it, move on to alternatives or make your own version.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

#16
I've gotten accustomed lately to spending a lot of time in the Github Copilot / agent management page. In particular I've been having a lot of fun using agents to browse some of my decade-old throwaway projects; telling it to "setup playwright, write some tests, record screenshots/videos and commit them to the repo" works every time and it's a great way to browse memory lane without spending my own time getting some of these projects building and running again.

However this means I'm now using the Github website and services 1000x more than I was previously, and they're trending towards having coin-flip uptime stats.

If Github sold a $5000 box I could plug into a corner in my house and just use that entire experience locally I'd seriously consider it. I'm guessing maybe I could get partway there by spending twice that on a Mac Pro but I have no idea what the software stack would look like today.

Is there a fully local equivalent out-of-the-box experience that anyone can vouch for? I've used local agents primarily through VSCode, but AFAIK that's limited to running a single active agent over your repo, and obviously limited by the constraints of running on a single M1 laptop I currently use. I know at least some people are managing local fleets of agents in some manner, but I really like how immensely easy Github has made it.

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

#17

This is a bit... low-effort, isn't it? I'd at least expect a video of an exasperated Github user walking up to the '# days since the last GitHub incident' board, sliding out the '1' or '2' card, and replacing it with a '0'. I mean, that joke is as old as the universe (heck, in the brief period that I worked in an office, decades ago, I had a "# days since the last person asked a stupid question" sign to enact the exa…

How can we add AI to this perfectly functional product?

Re: Days since last GitHub incident

#18

This is a bit... low-effort, isn't it? I'd at least expect a video of an exasperated Github user walking up to the '# days since the last GitHub incident' board, sliding out the '1' or '2' card, and replacing it with a '0'. I mean, that joke is as old as the universe (heck, in the brief period that I worked in an office, decades ago, I had a "# days since the last person asked a stupid question" sign to enact the exa…

I don't use Github Pages so I might be wrong but IMO I think at least part of the joke is that its URL betrays that it's a completely static site.
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