I don't really get the hate, honestly. There's a bunch of people really sharpening their pitchforks and villainizing GitHub for its recent downtimes, causing it to be this massive unreliable service. Understandable, honestly. When you're the biggest codebase platform in the whole world, that's bound to raise some eyebrows. But to me? I didn't really see the big deal out of it. It's just a hub where you push commits into repositories. What's really there to mald at?
That really is true. It's easy to brush off problems when they don't concern you. Until it does.
So I was creating my project last night and I left it functional and all. Everything was working. Vibes were immaculate. Life was good. I came back today only to realize that for some reason my project won't load anymore. Audio isn't working. What the hell is going on? I haven't even touched anything yet and now it's broken?
It deadass took me 2 hours of debugging.
And as much as I hate to admit it, I'm pretty much heavily reliant on the vibes these days. If an LLM that basically heavy-carried this entire project can't figure out the issue, then I'm essentially cooked. Thankfully, I've learned some nifty hacks and diagnostic tricks that allow for a more holistic approach to debugging, and eventually it really did figure it out.
And it turns out the issue wasn't even my codebase itself, but rather a dependency in my project that relied on an open-source project hosted through GitHub Pages.
And apparently, lo and behold:
GitHub services were down.
FUCK.
I've been second-guessing my projects, wasting my time, questioning my code, and I'm pretty much just a scrub-level guy. Imagine how someone like Mitchell Hashimoto would feel if he was in a literal flow state and this shit kept blocking his productivity. Zamn.
Imma fr be honest with you, I don't really know much about the guy personally, nor am I familiar with Ghostty like that. But all I know is that he was basically a day-one user of GitHub. Decades-plus of grinding every day without fail. Pushing commits, features, fixes, patches, iterations, all that. Imagine how much sunk-cost-fallacy-induced emotional damage you have to overcome just to even consider moving away from GitHub after all that history together.
That must've felt genuinely shit, man.
And after all that's said and done...
bro really did quit.
That's wild.
It's kind of sad. But at the same time, it's also weirdly inspiring. Because in a way, it's proof that people don't compromise their values and ideologies when it actually matters — even if it's your trusty ol' GitHub.
God damn.
I'm honestly inspired by that shit.
I'm gonna take this as an enlightening experience, and I hope we live up to that kind of mentality someday.
That shit sounds tuff.
