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Ditching GitHub (2024)


This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, withside notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’sjust that I never se...

That, unfortunately, means I won’t be able to leave the repositories in an archived or read-only state – I will have to wipe (physically destroy) the object database by force-pushing a new “initial commit” that removes all history. On the other hand, one of the main drivers of user traffic has been posts published on this blog (occasionally socialized on various link aggregators), and that will not change. Issue trackers and pull requests – as explained above, I am making a conscious and deliberate move towards an email-based workflow, 100% on top of my self-hosted platform.

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