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If I could make my own GitHub

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Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by wewewedxfgdf »

nadermx wrote: post #3
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #2

Doesn't sound too hard. Why don't you see how far you get in a weekend with Claude.

I started Free.ai as a weekend project with the same mindset. And a month in the work hasn't stopped. So I second this. Just find a good name, it helps.

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Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by kaashif »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #2

Doesn't sound too hard. Why don't you see how far you get in a weekend with Claude.

This can be the mindset now with a lot of things.

If you want a certain app with a feature and the app isn't open source, then you may as well just clone the app and add the feature.

Claude Code and Codex (and other tools) have computer use and are perfectly capable of navigating, experimenting, cloning functionality, writing tests...

If the app is open source it's probably easier to just fork and add your features though. And cheaper.

Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by rvz »

The alternative to GitHub is already here. It is called self-hosting and there are many alternatives.

The Linux kernel is not hosted on GitHub and uses cgit. Others use GitLab, or Gitea and there is also Forgejo (Which Codeberg uses) that people are using and can be self hosted.

This is why now everyone is realising why "centralising everything to GitHub" [0] was a terrible idea and now GitHub has been (unsurprisingly) run into the ground.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by nerdypepper »

> Well Y Does Some Of That

yes but tangled.org really does do most of that!

1. JJ as the VCS: tangled supports stacked PRs using jj change-ids. https://blog.tangled.org/stacking , we use it a lot to build tangled itself: https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/pulls

2. Raspberry pi as a forge for a long time: also check, the git server shim is super lightweight, its just an XRPC layer over git repositories + an sqlite3 database. there are folks running it on a riscv board with 512 megs of RAM.

3. Actions are critical and they should be runnable on my local machine: IMO this ask is slightly misplaced. it is mostly your build-systems' job to be hermetic, run anywhere, handle cross-builds etc. it would be really cool to "promote" results of such builds to the forge itself.

Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by keyle » 

    Stuff happens in the wrong order. You know the PR. Commit 1: 'Feature.' Commit 2: 'fix.' Commit 3: 'fix.' Commit 4: 'actually fix.' Commit 5: 'please.' Commit 6, made at 11:47 PM on a Thursday: 'asdfasdf'. This person has a family. This person has hobbies. This person is, at this moment, crying. You don't want the feedback loop after the commit you want it before. Let me do an enforced pre-commit hook to run the jobs remotely on the forge and provide the feedback to the user before they push.
Isn't this already totally possible? Or am I thinking subversion?

Re: If I could make my own GitHub

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Post by phinnaeus »

nerdypepper wrote: post #8

> Well Y Does Some Of That yes but tangled.org really does do most of that! 1. JJ as the VCS: tangled supports stacked PRs using jj change-ids. https://blog.tangled.org/stacking , we use it a lot to build tangled itself: https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/pulls 2. Raspberry pi as a forge for a long time: also check, the git server shim is super lightweight, its just an XRPC layer over git repositories + an sqlite3…

A remote execution cluster and CAS for build artifacts is a good way to avoid duplicate work on local vs CI, and avoid the problem of needing to trust local builds.
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