20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.

Is the golden age of Indie software over?(successfulsoftware.net)

28 points by hermitcrab 10 months ago | 26 comments

Making your own hot sauce(successfulsoftware.net)

208 points by hermitcrab 2 years ago | 176 comments

The AI Bullshit Singularity(successfulsoftware.net)

107 points by hermitcrab 2 years ago | 78 comments

ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage(successfulsoftware.net)

26 points by hermitcrab 1 month ago | 28 comments

Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data(successfulsoftware.net)

64 points by hermitcrab 7 months ago | 51 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.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension(bleepingcomputer.com)

985 points by Timofeibu 5 months ago | 430 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that GitHub confirmed a breach of about 3,800 internal repositories via a malicious VSCode extension.

The GitHub website is slow on Safari(github.com)

417 points by talboren 1 year ago | 322 comments

A GitHub Community discussion reporting that the GitHub website has become extremely slow and unusable on Safari, especially for large pull requests and files.

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability(theregister.com)

423 points by richtr 7 months ago | 221 comments

The Register article on GitHub's recent string of outages and slowdowns affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications and Copilot, falling short of three nines.

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.

An update on GitHub availability(github.blog)

394 points by salkahfi 6 months ago | 236 comments

A GitHub blog post explaining what the company has done and is still doing to improve the availability and reliability of its service.