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Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by radlad »

embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

I recently did this as well and one of the things that has struck me is just how fast Actions are compared to Github!

That said, I've got Linux and macOS setup with a Mac Mini (using a Claude-generated Ansible task file), but configuring a Windows VM seemed a bit painful. You didn't happen to find anything to simplify the deployment process here, did you?

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by radlad »

neilv wrote: post #40
embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

I self-host Forgejo for personal and indie-startup purposes, and like it well enough. The downside with that is it misses one of the key purposes of GitHub: posturing for job-hunting/hopping. It's another performative checkbox, like memorizing Leetcode and practicing delivery for brogrammer interviews. If you don't appear active on GitHub specifically (not even Codeberg, GitLab, nor something else), you're going to g…

There is a fairly straightforward feature in Forgejo to sync your repos to Github, if that's what you want to do. It's not perfect, of course, but should help to advertise your projects and keep your activity heatmap green.

I mostly use Forgejo for my private repos, which are free at Github, but with many limitations. One month I burned all my private CI tokens on the 1st due to a hung Mac runner. Love not having to worry about this now!

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by jasoncartwright »

tgrowazay wrote: post #39
jasoncartwright wrote: post #33

Just cancelled my GitHub Copilot Pro+ year subscription. Removal of Opus 4.6 stung, but the repeated continued downtime makes it unusable for me. Very disappointed. No fuss instant refund of my unused subscription (£160) appreciated.

Doesn’t GitHub Copilot Pro+ only have month-to-month payment option? Only Pro (without plus) can be paid annually for some reason.

I paid 390 USD for a year Pro+ subscription in November 2025.

I used all the 'Premium Requests' every month on (mainly) Opus 4.5 & 4.6. From what I've read on here it seems I was probably a rather unprofitable customer - it felt like a steal.

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by gill-bates »

neilv wrote: post #40
embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

I self-host Forgejo for personal and indie-startup purposes, and like it well enough. The downside with that is it misses one of the key purposes of GitHub: posturing for job-hunting/hopping. It's another performative checkbox, like memorizing Leetcode and practicing delivery for brogrammer interviews. If you don't appear active on GitHub specifically (not even Codeberg, GitLab, nor something else), you're going to g…

I get that. To counter it I usually try to have at least one public repo on my Forgejo instance and link to that on my resume/LinkedIn. It helps that I'm angling for security/infra positions so the self-hosting aspect actually helps but even without that I would imagine it signals something. Maybe not ideal for the most mainstream jobs (whatever that even means...), but I suspect some people will be intrigued by the initiative.

Edit: to the "do you even lift bro", the response becomes "yeah man, I've built my own gym - oh, you go to Planet Fitness? Good luck."

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by mfenniak »

lisplist wrote: post #29
embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

The only problem I've found with Forgejo is a lack of fine grained permissions and also the lack of an API for pulling action invocations. The actions log api endpoints are present in gitea from what I can tell.

Forgejo 15 was just released last week with repo-specific access tokens. More to come in the future.

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by CamouflagedKiwi »

waiwai933 wrote: post #10
cjonas wrote: post #7

It would be wild if they dropped below the "two 9's" metric. I think they would need an additional ~16hr of outage in the 90 day rolling period.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ suggests that their combined uptime doesn't even meet 1 nine, let alone 2.

The intersection of uptime across every possible service they offer isn't a particularly great metric. I get the point that they are doing badly, but it makes it look worse than I think it really is.

What I would like to see is a combined uptime for "code services", basically Git+Webhooks+API+Issues+PRs, which corresponds to a set of user workflows that really should be their bread & butter, without highlighting things you might not care about (Codespaces, Copilot).

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 »

neilv wrote: post #40
embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

I self-host Forgejo for personal and indie-startup purposes, and like it well enough. The downside with that is it misses one of the key purposes of GitHub: posturing for job-hunting/hopping. It's another performative checkbox, like memorizing Leetcode and practicing delivery for brogrammer interviews. If you don't appear active on GitHub specifically (not even Codeberg, GitLab, nor something else), you're going to g…

> If you don't appear active on GitHub specifically... you're going to get dismissed from a lot of job applications

Sometimes wonder if my coursemates back in the days, who automated commits to private repos just to keep the green box packed, actually got any mileage out of it.

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by colechristensen »

embedding-shape wrote: post #17

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally. This is probably the first t…

Instability aside I found several things about GitHub awkward, annoying, or missing features so I spent a month building my own. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of this.

Re: Incident with multple GitHub services

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Post by cedws »

embedding-shape wrote: post #38
cedws wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea of a homelab is appealing to me, but then I actually start building one and get tired of it quickly. When I’ve been fixing broken systems at work all day I don’t really want to have to be my own sysadmin too. I’ve got a nice and powerful Minisforum on my desk that I bought at Christmas not even switched on.

I've tried for 15 years to have my homelab, but always get lost in the complexity after a year or so, in the past. About 3 years ago I gave NixOS a try instead for managing everything, which suddenly made everything easier (counter-intuitively perhaps) as now I can come back after months and still understand where everything is and how it works after just reading. Setting up Forgejo + runners declaratively is probabl…

Thanks. Yeah, I've probably been overcomplicating it before. I was running Kubernetes on Talos thinking that at least it would be familiar. Such power tools for running simple workloads on a single node is inviting headaches.
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