Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)(gist.github.com)

23 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 35 comments

C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell(gist.github.com)

177 points by gaigalas 6 months ago | 56 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories(twitter.com)

527 points by splenditer 5 months ago | 289 comments

A post on X from GitHub stating it is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories, with no current evidence of impact to customer data.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?(blog.ploetzli.ch)

536 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 367 comments

Blog essay by Henryk Plötz arguing that JSON Web Tokens should not be used as authentication/session tokens, explaining the reasons.

Why GitHub won(blog.gitbutler.com)

582 points by hardwaregeek 2 years ago | 453 comments

Blog post by GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon explaining how GitHub became the dominant code hosting platform.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.

Why users cannot create Issues directly(github.com)

703 points by xpe 9 months ago | 253 comments

A GitHub issue in the Ghostty repository explaining that users must open a Discussion first, with only actionable items moved to the issue tracker.