Before GitHub | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

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Armin Ronacher argues that as GitHub declines due to instability and product churn, open source must preserve its history by moving to decentralized, archivally-funded homes that avoid the pre-GitHub era's fragility.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto is moving the project off GitHub due to frequent outages and declining service quality since Microsoft's acquisition.
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GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
GitHub has become unreliable and slop-filled under Microsoft, prompting users to migrate to alternative Git forges.
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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding - by Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani argues that while AI agents now write 80% of code for early adopters, this shifts problems to "comprehension debt," where developers understand less of their own codebases.
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Clanker: A Word For The Machine
Armin Ronacher argues for the term "clanker" as a deliberately mechanical, dehumanizing label for LLM-based tools to resist anthropomorphism and keep responsibility clearly on humans.
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Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
The piece enumerates dozens of distinct ways open-source projects become effectively dead, from maintainer abandonment to sabotage and ecosystem shifts.
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