I would pay good money for a GitHub feature that blocks commits where the message is "wip".

My GitHub notifications today say that folks don't read past the pinned and/or most recently opened issue.

The more I try to use Laravel's ApplicationBuilder "slim skeleton", the more I get bitten by bugs that it introduced by changing the order of operations for when certain things run.

Another day, another waste of time blocking IP addresses from LLM enabled web crawlers. Oh, BTW, Scrapy, it's really a dick move to have a SaaS that doesn't publish an IP list, and also a red flag on how bad your product is.

Which of you broke Google Cloud?

The sooner we see the end of corporate exploitation of open source software (LOL who am I kidding it won't happen), the sooner posts like gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/… stop being a normal thing.

It's 2025 and there are still OSS projects which will not run their automated tests or static analysis tools if the code style isn't up to snuff. But I'm sure a line not being indented properly is good cause to not run the unit tests to validate a change.

I always get a chuckle about the people who groan about OSS projects not self-hosting all their infrastructure. Not every project has the resources to do it, and not everyone wants to volunteer to be a full-time DevOps person for an underfunded software project.

If you can't even be bothered to replace the AI-generated placeholder in your email closing, I'm just going to assume that you and everybody you work with are incompetent at your jobs and should seek new work. Attention to detail matters, folks.

Something I will never not be annoyed by as an OSS maintainer is how quickly people will pile on with +1 or "up" comments on issues but heaven forbid anyone do anything to help test or review changes.

I missed the news about Microsoft's CoreAI and GitHub being placed under it from the beginning of the year, but with that knowledge in mind, it explains so much about the (questionable) direction GitHub's moving.

This week is one of those weeks that reminds me why my OSS contributions have slowed down to (mostly) business needs. I'm too technically apolitical to care enough to want to work a 2nd full time DevOps/SA job just to not use a GitHub-like service.

GitHub stops responding the minute after I push my own release to production. Surely that's just a coincidence.

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I miss the days when I could work on open source code without being forced into having political opinions.

The way I watch people use Laravel's enum_value() sometimes makes me wish PHP didn't add enums.

I miss the days I could look at multiple files from GitHub PRs at once.

You know you're having a bad day when the status page starts spitting up 500 errors.

As much as I like DigitalOcean I can't say I'm a fan of their consistent RTs slamming AWS today. Using a competitor's service issues as a way to market your service leaves a sour taste in my mouth.