Evangeline Rome

@evadeva.bsky.social

Sincere, autistic, empathic, depressed, traumatized, socially anxious, 24 yo human. Effect-pilled. Competent in Backend, DataEng, Frontend, DevOps, and others. I ❤️ OSS! github.com/nikelborm/effect-garden npmx.dev/~evadev

There are plenty of places to host a Git repository, but remarkably few places to host an open-source community GitHub’s moat is its shared identities, conventions and paths to discovery. Any replacement must rebuild that social layer, not merely offer better hosting. lalitm.com/post/github-...

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

Codeberg, a Git code hosting platform, recently took a decision to prohibit projects that mostly consist of generative-AI-written code which has prompted concern and extensive discussion elsewhere. Th...

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🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons: I (we 👀) would love to know people's frustrations with: - the current github.com - finding the humans through the noise - bridging gaps between forges 🙏

Why is it so uncomfortable seeing other people not reusing each other's code and refusing to collaborate? Especially in the age of AI, people keep vibecoding ideas that were implemented both before and after AI.

So, to be a cool kid nowadays, you have to publish a single minified ESM-only JS file without source maps or .ts sources, with a single minified .d.ts without source maps as a separate package? Got it. /sarc

github proudly announcing that $100m has been disbursed through their sponsor program in 7 years, as if that's not pocket change in tech

It's so painful. I wanna do open source. I'm very excited about starting. I wrongfully believe I have a ton of energy every time. And I make promises. And then the reality hits. I don't have energy to deliver on the promises. My executive function is fucked.