LOL GitHub [2018]
(www.jwz.org)
from tux0r@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Aug 2025 01:28
https://feddit.org/post/17313461
from tux0r@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Aug 2025 01:28
https://feddit.org/post/17313461
That post aged like wine.
threaded - newest
like a $10,000 bottle of Champaine
This is supposed to be from 2018? It looks like a 14 year old’s Geocities page from 2001.
the page does go back to 2002, maybe its the origininal design
I like it!
Oh damn! dude is legit leet!
www.jwz.org/about.html
Yeah, jwz is no joke.
I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.
Dude’s living the dream.
“I came up with the name Mozilla.”
“HTML in your email is probably my fault”
Legend
It’s jwz. I’d say he’s earned it.
Did something happen recently that triggered this being posted now?
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
Jfc… I hate Microsoft so damn much.
How is it I’ve never seen this? Loving
MICROS~1Is there anything better than DOS jokes???
The guy who put a timebomb in his software because Debian shipped an older version.
Probably a gas to collaborate with.
He has good reasons, in my opinion.
I agree.
I was curious and just checked -Trixie dropped with a 1-year-ish old version. Curious if they ever update it.
Time to move my lazy ass and finally do that migration I’ve been putting off.
What alternatives are you guys recommending? I’ve heard good things of Codeberg so far.
The best alternative is to selfhost forgejo (codeberg’s backend) which is libre unlike gitea. If you don’t have the hardware to selfhost, you can use codeberg itself.
It depends on whether Git is a requirement. If it’s not, the infrastructure requirements for Forgejo are still higher than Darcshub or Fossil. If you’d like to have Git with a decent web interface, but you don’t absolutely need pull requests or whatever, Stagit is another lovely option.
I use Fossil (a DVCS that’s not Git-based) for most of my code. The main reason is that self-hosting (and keeping backups of) it is incredibly easy: One Fossil repository is one file. For those who absolutely require Git interaction for any reason, one-way mirrors are perfectly possible.
I self host forgejo for my personal projects
I have not moved my open source stuff off gh.
I hope I wont get brigaded, but of hosted options I like Gitlab. They are fairly transparent as a company, and I've used their community edition for work and private projects for nearly a decade.
Not just hosting, I like their CI/CD and devops features too.
Gitlab-the-company isn’t really much different from GitHub-the-company, to be honest.
One is owned by Microsoft, the other is still effectively independent. Idk if I'd call it not much different.
Git is distributed by design, so I lean into that. I self-host, and use codeberg, and still collaborate with people who won’t leave github. Forgejo has built in pull or push mirrors that make it very easy, but you can also set multiple remotes in your local git repo.
Yeah migrating Git is as easy as it gets in my opinion :) Add remote, push, tada.
Migrating Fossil:
scp my-repo.fossil ssh://new/repos/- tadaWell, sure.
scp -r source targetworks with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can’t see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.
I don’t want to convert anyone. :-) Just because you suggested it can’t be easier. I warmly recommend anyone to try it though.