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I found out when Actions started failing again for the Nth time this month.

The internal conversation about moving away from Actions or possibly GitHub has been triggered. I didn't like Zig's post about leaving GitHub because it felt immature, but they weren't wrong. It's decaying.

It should always be at 0, because GitHub is unreachable over IPv6, which in 2025 should be considered an incident.

GitHub Actions is a good example of systems thrown together that at face value have something to offer until they get put under stress.

Just now I found:

    * a job that's > 1 month old, still running
    * another job that started 2 hours ago that had 0 output
    * a job that was marked as pending, yet I could rerun it
    * auto-merges that don't happen
    * pull requests show (1), click it, no pull requests visible

Makes me wonder in how many places state is stored, because there is some serious disconnect between them.

Once GitHub fully migrates to Azure, it should be known as GitHub 11.

This is why I keep encouraging folks to a) have a mirror & b) make sure their tools automatically pick up the mirrors.

I recently got mirror support upstreamed into Nixpkgs for fetchdarcs & fetchpijul which actually work on my just-alpha-released pinning tool, Nixtamal <https://darcs.toastal.in.th/nixtamal/trunk/README.rst>, for just this sort of thing.

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.

Missed a chance to put this in meme format e.g. https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/439302803/Days-without-acci...

When I opened the link, I just laughed for 5 mins straight

Is GitHub deployed using GitHub Actions?

The Primagen video about the bash scripts underpinning github actions runner was crazy. I'm a half-assed programmer at best and I don't even think I would make some of those mistakes.

I've not been able to browse any repo sources without the Unicorn for the past few hours.

Oh nice - I'm literally playing around with a site to detect outages for major provides (AWS/cloudflare/github) based on social media/HN posts

The amazing part about this is the page even works when i'm offline.

I've been getting some weird cryptocurrency spam notifications on GitHub and they can't be cleared for some reason. Blue dot is gonna be there forever apparently. Some users made an issue out of it but nobody cared to fix it.

woah this time i even caught it before the status page reported something - i thought they were rate-limiting me.

At this point, is there any downside to switching to GitLab?

I guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.

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)...

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This is pretty dishonest because some trivial service no one cares about will reset this counter .