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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • So… I think it’s high time to start planning an exodus.

    Is there a good alternative to GitHub?

    I have two types of repos, a few public open-source projects for which I require:

    • Basic git stuff ofc, PRs, forks, etc.
    • Issues
    • Automatic scanning for security vulnerabilities like GH does
    • CI on PRs and nightly CRON based, free and allowing both cloud-hosted runners and adding self-hosted runners
    • Ability to host a static documentation site

    Plus private ones where I don’t need any bells and whistles, just a git hoster for myself and no one else.

    Is there something free that provides these things and doesn’t suck? If I go to GitLab’s page then it says:

    so that’s fucked too now, huh












  • I used to answer new questions on SO daily a few years back and 50% of all questions are basically unanswerable.

    You’d also have the nice September Effect when a semester started and every other question would be someone just copy pasting their homework verbatim and being very surprised we closed it in like a minute.

    The thing about that is that literally anyone can answer SO questions. Like try and do that. Pick a language or a tech you’re most familiar with, filter that tag and sort by new. Click on every new question. After an hour you’ll understand just why most questions have to be closed immediately to keep the site sane.

    Whenever I see criticism of SO that’s like “oh they’ll just close your question for no reason” I can’t help but think okay, there’s overwhelming chance you’re just one of Those and not an innocent casualty of an overeager closer.