Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

kept by eddie may 09

A website visualizes GitHub's outage history as a contribution graph heatmap, showing 47.2 hours of downtime over 47 days in the last year.

Treat prompt changes like code deploys
Teams should treat prompt edits like code deploys by adding automated tests, CI gating, and continuous evaluation to catch silent regressions before they reach users.
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Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
Microsoft's AI products suffer from poor quality and low demand, driven by forced integration into core tools rather than genuine user need.
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Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
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GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
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