When I thought about it more I realized I already knew that product: it's called Microsoft Codeplex ☠️

So ... GitHub is dead! Long live GitHub!

With this new feed tonight, I know my deepest fears have become reality. GitHub as I knew it is dead. Why? Because shipping even a Beta preview of it without the most defining feature — the social feed — shows how little that matters compared to the next AI slop feature

When Microsoft acquired GitHub, I was afraid. Afraid that the myopic lens so endemic to the Borg cube would destroy it. A lens focused on everything that is NOT open source

And I hate it when I'm right

One where there are many more private repositories than public

One that has become a staple of professional software engineers even more than it ever was for open source artisans

Instead, nearly every day since then I've gone to github.com to discover and learn from other practitioners in this art we call open source

That feed was what made GitHub, well, GitHub. Over time, that website grew into the behemoth that it is today

Mikeal knew this, and I will be forever in his debt for what I learned from him. I'm looking forward to integrating his pkv ideas into _all_docs in the coming months 🧠 we both didn't see it then, but he was onto something important 🚀

I hope you enjoy the story 💚 all-docs.talks.charlie.dev

That it is just one problem a more holistic content addressable web make easier to solve. But the bigger the problem, the more contributors that need to gather

Package managers and the shared digital infrastructure for delivering packages to them become ever more important. If we step back and broaden our scope we see that it is just one flavor of a larger metadata & addressing problem

Multi-tasking is not good for my internal LLMs tokenization accuracy 🤦‍♂️

I don't know? But if nothing else I trust now you at least want to schlep down to Maryland next month 🙃

Nice @wesbos.com! @tracy.bsky.social and I are bringing the whole family with us🤠