What's wrong with #GitHub? https://u.fsf.org/4ci #FreeSoftware

𝗔𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:

#Github #Actions

https://thewhale.cc/posts/awesome-actions

A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

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A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

#GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini #ShaiHulud payload still active

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-actions-re-enabled-with-mini-shai-hulud-payload-still-active/

#cybersecurity #malware

📢 Two of @w3c’s most commonly used IRC bots, RRSAgent and Zakim, are now open source. These bots have assisted over 60,000 meetings at W3C over the past 25 years! 😊🎉

▶️ https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/w3c-irc-bots-now-open-source/ - by @gerald

Zakim is for agenda and queue management and RRSAgent for recording minutes. Their code and issue trackers are on #GitHub:
- https://github.com/w3c/zakim
- https://github.com/w3c/rrsagent
#OpenSource

👇From a T-shirt designed by @karlcow to thank W3C group chairs back in 2008!

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Two designed robots representing W3C's IRC bots: on the left, Zakim (in green, raising a hand for queue management) and on the right, RRSAgent (in blue, recording minutes).

GitGuardian, from yesterday: GitHub App Private Keys: 474 Leaked Keys Exposed https://blog.gitguardian.com/github-app-private-keys-leaked/ @gitguardian #infosec #GitHub

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗕𝗼𝘁:

#Bot #Github #ProBot

https://thewhale.cc/posts/probot

GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow. Use pre-built apps to extend GitHub, and easily build and share your own.

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GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow. Use pre-built apps to extend GitHub, and easily build and share your own.

Fake #LastPass Authenticator #GitHub repos push new #Rapuncel #infostealer

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-authenticator-github-repos-push-new-rapuncel-infostealer/

#cybersecurity #malware

𝗔𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:

#Github #Actions

https://thewhale.cc/posts/awesome-actions

A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

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A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

Idea: a Space Invader game that can restart failing Github infrastructure on clearing a level.
#github

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗕𝗼𝘁:

#Bot #Github #ProBot

https://thewhale.cc/posts/probot

GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow. Use pre-built apps to extend GitHub, and easily build and share your own.

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GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow. Use pre-built apps to extend GitHub, and easily build and share your own.

Citizen Astronomy (CAst)
by ÖgetayKayali
https://github.com/OgetayKayali/citizen-astronomy

Every clear night, amateur telescopes around the world capture photons that professional observatories never will -- the right patch of sky, at the right moment, with enough patience to notice something change. Citizen Astronomy turns those images into science.

CAst is a desktop application (Windows installer primary; unsigned macOS .app zip available for alpha testers) that takes folders of FITS and XISF images and gives you the tools to measure variable stars, discover moving asteroids, build Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams, and explore the sky -- all from one guided interface, no command-line scripting required.

Please read more details in ALT-Texts of images. These images are just a few examples of the sophisticated use-cases of this software!
Another nice example:
https://defcon.social/@grobi/117234604503277917

Topic> Useful Code
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114797042323081686

or expand post & scroll up ^

#space #tech #science #astronomy #astrophotography #code #python #unix #linux #windows #commandline #plotting #github #apod

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Profile at GitHub of Ögetay Kayalı the developer behind Citizen Astronomy (CAst)

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Entry screen of Citizen Astronomy (CAst) CAst is organized around dedicated modes, each built for a different kind of observing or exploration. Choose a science workflow when you want measurements and exports, or open a visualization tool when you want to understand a field, the sky, or a stack.

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Differential Photometry Example of produced light curves in Citizen Astronomy (CAst) Open a folder of time-series images, and CAst scans your frames, identifies field stars through Gaia DR3 and VSX catalogs, performs aperture photometry with adaptive FWHM-scaled apertures, and produces differential light curves. Fit periods with Lomb-Scargle, refine comparison stars, bin for signal-to-noise, and export science-ready AAVSO reports.

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Sky Explorer Open any plate-solved image and turn it into an annotated field census. CAst queries SIMBAD, Gaia DR3, VSX, the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and JPL Horizons for objects inside your footprint, then overlays them on the frame with a searchable results table. Switch object-type modes from Simple deep-sky classes to Scientific SIMBAD codes, compare against DSS or Hα survey cutouts with an interactive divider, mark magnitude reach with Mag Limit, add manual annotations, export stills or comparison animations, and build size-aware object collages from catalog angular sizes.

@baldur @u0421793

I think its not as much that #developers are gatekeeping, but more that work processes don't integrate well, or at all. To the benefit of the devs, who deliver the software at the end of the pipeline.

At the start of my career I worked at the largest Print company in Europe (now bankrupt) and we created several award-winning dynamic websites. At the time #UX wasn't a thing, but Interaction Design was and it was leading. It was also a time when we didn't have 'agile', and didn't have #Github where everything is either an Issue or a PR. There were waterfall processes, and on the agile side you later had things like #RUP (Rational Unified Process). These acknowledged specifally different IT roles and different stages in the overall development lifecycle.

For Social experience design, #SX, I got inspired by RUP when defining the #FSDL (the Free software development lifecycle, or Fediverse solution delivery lifecycle, depending on context). See:

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#free-software-development-lifecycle

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A diagram that depicts the scope of SX as three expanding elipses. Innermost is Developer experience (DX) which is suitable to work with and create technical systems. Surrounding it is User experience (UX), which includes DX in our scope definition, and allows us to deliver socio-technical platforms. Outermost elipsis is Social experience design (SX) that holistically emcompasses both DX and SX and allows us to create socio-cultural solutions. SX takes us from individual needs, via inter-personal relationships, to leaving societal imprint.

#Gentoo took the next step and disabled creating new pull requests for GURU on #GitHub. The existing pull requests will be left open and hopefully eventually merged; new pull requests must go to #Codeberg.

https://github.com/gentoo/guru/pull/551

so I noticed something stupid about #github and it's #oidc system.
now if you didn't know, openID connect (OIDC) is basically a standard, which was a more modern successer to the traditional #saml (security assertion markup language) and it's basically like oauth2, but it's for a specific organization. think of it as like #oauth , hut for more specifically SSO and more security controls.
but I noticed GitHub OIDC is an enterprise feature in GitHub. the only exception is for automated tasks.
i'm really confused on why that would be an enterprise feature...but then again some of GitHub doesn't make sense

Tachyon: How Forking an Abandoned Webmail Client Escalated Rather Quickly
What started as “I’ll just fork SnappyMail” somehow turned into a full-blown webmail proje
https://schulz.dk/2026/08/27/tachyon-how-forking-an-abandoned-webmail-client-escalated-rather-quickly/?utm_campaign=blogpost&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
#development #github #IMAP #javascript

RE: https://social.karotte.org/@moehrenfeld/117160783957960800

I totally agree, and have always thought this was a terrible end-user experience. It comes about because someone, somewhere, is tracking 'number of open tickets' and thinks that a smaller number is better than a big number.

No. A big number means your software is being used. ... OR, admittedly, it could be because the #AI #SlopBots have decided to dump their slop all over your project.

#github #opensource

#github

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Introducing Tor Button! 🔘

My new #OpenSource Android app that routes ALL your TCP traffic through #Tor with one tap. No trackers, no ads.

Built to survive the worst phones: it finally stays up for hours on my Realme Narzo 30 (battery killer) on WiFi & mobile, with built-in IP leak protection.

Soon on #GitHub & perhaps #FDroid! 💪🏻

#Privacy #Android #VPN #TorProject

FYI, you don't want to get banned on the #Gentoo org on #Microsoft #GitHub right now, because vibe-hub is broken and I can only ban people but "something goes wrong" when I'm trying to see who's banned (and therefore I can't unban anyone).

Oh, so #Microsoft explains that #GitHub wasn't down due to vibe-coding, but due to "a new peak" in traffic. So sorry to hear that, really. Who would have expected that would happen after they (checks notes) practically monopolized software hosting, and then started aggressively pushing for unethical technology that is killing the Internet. But don't worry, their best vibe-coders are now working on the ultimate prompt to make everything scale.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/

🔴 GitHub is DOWN

Major Outage on Actions, API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests and Copilot. Started 19:10 IST, still not fixed.

~20% of web and API requests are failing
~50% of raw file and archive downloads are failing
SSO login (SAML/OIDC) affected
Git push/clone has been slow since 20:51 IST

No root cause from GitHub yet. Don't retry aggressively — it makes recovery slower.

Live timeline and full details: https://www.cyberkendra.com/2026/08/github-down-outage-actions-api-copilot.html

#Github #devops #developer #copilot #InternetOutage

Mojo becomes open source – Python-like language for CPUs and GPUs

Shortly after releasing version 1.0 of Mojo, Modular (Qualcomm) releases the compiler under the Apache-2 license.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mojo-becomes-open-source-Python-like-language-for-CPUs-and-GPUs-11419784.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Compiler #GitHub #IT #OpenSource #Programmierung #Python #Qualcomm #news

You know what's great about #GitHub breakage? At least their fucking #Copilot nag doesn't load.

When #GitHub UI is so broken that you can't mark a pull request ready to review when merge status can't be loaded, so you need to actually do that via API.

You're absolutely correct! When you asked me to "clean up and archive some old data" I should not have sent the command "DROP DATABASE github.master" to the SQL server.
I'll make a note to ask before I do this next time.

#GithubDown #Github

I wonder if they're going to tell us that an AI "slipped through its guardrails" and deleted the whole of Github.

#GithubDown #Github

Pink unicorns, as far as the eye can see.

#GithubDown #github

Oh, great. So apparently #Microsoft decided to add "#Copilot Pull Request Reviewer" to my "Authorized #GitHub Apps", behind my back.

If you need to check quick: https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations

#NoAI #NoLLM

Awesome DigitalEscapeTools keeps growing!

Now featuring 290 privacy-focused tools across 32 categories open-source, self-hosted, secure, and privacy-friendly alternatives.

Built a privacy-respecting tool? Contribute it, and accepted tools will also be showcased in r/DigitalEscapeTools.

⭐ Explore, contribute, or suggest a tool: https://github.com/abdomk1998/awesome-digital-escape-tools

#OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosted #GitHub #PrivacyTools #Linux #Windows #Android #macOS

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Screenshot of the Awesome Digital Escape Tools GitHub README showing privacy-focused badges and a description of the collection, with 290 tools across 32 categories.

I've finally found a valid use case for #PyPI attestations: the provenance check lets me find wrong case in #GitHub URLs. Like, if the user is "FooBar", GitHub just lets me use "foobar" in the URL and doesn't correct it in any way, but provenance check will fail!

New from Cloudflare:

"We're introducing @cloudflare/computer, an agent runtime that dynamically orchestrates between fast, efficient isolates and full Linux containers to give every agent a computer of its own."

"The central piece of @cloudflare/computer is the workspace. A virtual filesystem backed by SQLite that can be populated from various sources including cloud storage and source control."

Cloudflare: Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-computer/ #infosec #bots #Cloudflare #GitHub #Linux

@cR0w @ifin

New #GitHub, #PyPI Policies Boost #SupplyChain Security

https://www.securityweek.com/new-github-pypi-policies-boost-supply-chain-security/

#cybersecurity

𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗛𝘂𝗯:

#Github #Manager

https://thewhale.cc/posts/devhub

DevHub, TweetDeck for GitHub. It helps you take back control of your GitHub workflow and stay on top of everything important going on.

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DevHub, TweetDeck for GitHub. It helps you take back control of your GitHub workflow and stay on top of everything important going on.

#GitHub, #PyPI add time-absed defenses against supply chain attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-pypi-add-time-absed-defenses-against-supply-chain-attacks/

#cybersecurity

India orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat

“The application enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralised logging of communications. The technical architecture of the application significantly impedes lawful interception, attribution and investigation by law enforcement agencies,”

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece

#github #censorship

TIL #github censor some topics about #p2p: got 404s trying to view #bittorrent topics while any random topics i've tried works 🤷

https://github.com/topics/bittorrent
https://github.com/topics/bittorrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent

#GithubCensorship

Can someone look at my #GitHub repos for Everrealm, my website, or WordPredictor and check that my new GitHub sponsor and Ko-fi buttons are showing?

#FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 #GitHub repos to push #SmartLoader #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fakegit-campaign-uses-7-600-github-repos-to-push-smartloader-malware/

#cybersecurity

🎶 Oops, they did it again.

#Github #GithubDown #GithubStatus

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A screenshot from githubstatus.com showing a host of services are currently not working correctly.

Out of the 100 million USD that has been donated through #GitHub sponsors, 0.0641% was given to #curl (64K USD since 2019)

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/100-million-for-open-source-a-milestone-built-by-the-community/

I don't know what's more stupid: #OpenSSH using different authentication flow depending on whether you have a `.pub` file in addition to the private key or not, or #GitHub suddenly starting to reject one of the two valid RFC 4252 workflows.

https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html

#SSH

Working on my #Github for screen readers guide, covers downloading assets, since that's what others seem to have the most trouble doing. I'm working on the GUI section, already finished the CLI section, and as a blind person, I've come to the conclusion the CLI is peak user interface. Yes, it's complicated to *learn* but I gotta tell ya, once you learn it, it never changes. Trying to provide evergreen GUI instructions is very fucking hard. #CLI #Git

#GitHub Status: there was no downtime recently.

My mailbox: two hours worth of cronjob failures that disagree.

Nearly 300 #GitHub repos pose as legit software to push #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nearly-300-github-repos-pose-as-legit-software-to-push-malware/

#cybersecurity

Lessons Learned from #CISA’s Recent #GitHub Leak

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lessons-learned-from-cisas-recent-github-leak/

#cybersecurity

so, I'm thinkign of starting my vlog again except there will not really be a comments page. why? it is oging ot be be built using jeckle and github pages. I've taken to using that as it just works. No databases, nothing. Storage of all materials will be done externally and the good thing? no caches and everyone gets the same site thereby reducing resources.
#Technology #Website #Github

I just got this bill from #microsoft for #github usage. See if you can spot what is ridiculous about this bill.

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Screenshot of my “account usage” page at GitHub. It lists a bunch of “Included usage” items, each of which is zero dollars. They’re things like 2,000 Actions minutes .5 GB Actions storage 10 GB Git LFS storage Then it says Free usage: 100% off per month Zero dollars and two cents. The only thing on the list that explicitly says one hundred percent discount has a non-zero charge.

& now there's YA reason: last week, #GitHub urged the FOSS community to *oppose* important #California legislation that places transparency and consumer rights requirements on deployment of LLM-gen-AI!

GitHub's tactic? Disinformation claiming #FOSS licenses are incompatible with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §22757 and California #SB1000 (which seeks to amend §22757).

Read the analysis: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/

#LLM #AI #copyleft #GPL #Microsoft #law

Congratulations. Now I'm actively worried to open a PR fixing my issue, because there's already been a few #slop PRs opened attempting to fix it. And I'm literally worried that mine would be taken as another slop PR…

https://github.com/pallets/itsdangerous/issues/420

#NoAI #NoLLM #FreeSoftware #GitHub

New.

Arctic Wolf: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in libssh2 Client Library Require Urgent Mitigation https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/critical-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-libssh2-client-library-require-urgent-mitigation/ #infosec #GitHub #vulnerability

@ifin

So to remove someone from repository's ACL on #GitHub, I need to click the trash icon next to their name. Is it just me, or is that symbolic troubling?

New.

"The latest activity includes malicious npm releases affecting LeoPlatform and RStreams packages, GitHub Actions workflow abuse, and a related Go module compromise involving the Verana Blockchain project."

Socket: Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud Hits LeoPlatform npm Packages and GitHub Actions, Expands to the Go Ecosystem https://socket.dev/blog/miasma-mini-shai-hulud-hits-leoplatform-npm-packages-go-ecosystem @SocketSecurity #infosec #threatresearch #GitHub #npm #malware #JavaScript

FYI @ifin

Apps for encryption, comms, Usenet, remailers ...

Ch1ffr3punk: https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk

The owner is a denizen of the OG #Usenet scene.

#cypherpunk #cryptography #crypto #encryption #privacy #github #freesoftware

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @usenet@soc.octade.net

WhatsApp Clone, but Decentralized with P2P Messaging

App: https://Enkrypted.Chat

"Secure and private" is the general goal.

This is a technical/concept demo of a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-first and webrtc.

This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

Features:

* P2P
* End to end encryption
* Signal protocol
* Post-Quantum cryptography
* File transfer
* Local-first
* No registration
* No installation
* No database
* TURN server

Feel free to reach out for clarity instead of diving into the docs/code.

IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure experience, it isnt audited or reviewed. **Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only.** Please use responsibly.

#Privacy #OpenSource #P2P #WebRTC #Decentralization #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #FOSS #SelfHosted #NoCloud #AntiCorp #Encryption #WebDev #TechLiberty #PrivateMessaging #Networking #DataPrivacy #InternetFreedom #LocalFirst #SoftwareEngineering #WebApps #ZeroKnowledge #PrivacyTech #IndieDev #NoSignup #NoInstall #DecentralizedWeb #SecureMessaging #BrowserApp #TechEthics #P2P #WebRTC #PeerJS #ZeroData #EphemeralData #Encryption #E2EE #BrowserToBrowser #NoInstall #Privacy #Security #Decentralized #Messaging #VideoCall #NoTracking #PrivateMessaging #Prototype #Demo #WorkInProgress #CloseSource #OpenSource #WebDev #GitHub #TechDevelopment #WhatsApp #ChatApp #InstantMessaging #PWA

𝗔𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:

#Github #Actions

https://thewhale.cc/posts/awesome-actions

A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

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A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub by Sarah Drasner

https://Enkrypted.Chat

This is intended to introduce a unique approach in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

Features:

PWA
P2P
End to end encryption
Signal protocol
Post-Quantum cryptography
Multimedia
File transfer
Video calls
Local-first
No registration
No installation
No database
TURN server

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions

#Privacy #OpenSource #P2P #WebRTC #Decentralization #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #FOSS #SelfHosted #NoCloud #AntiCorp #Encryption #WebDev #TechLiberty #PrivateMessaging #Networking #DataPrivacy #InternetFreedom #LocalFirst #SoftwareEngineering #WebApps #ZeroKnowledge #PrivacyTech #IndieDev #NoSignup #NoInstall #DecentralizedWeb #SecureMessaging #BrowserApp #TechEthics #P2P #WebRTC #PeerJS #ZeroData #EphemeralData #Encryption #E2EE #BrowserToBrowser #NoInstall #Privacy #Security #Decentralized #Messaging #VideoCall #NoTracking #PrivateMessaging #Prototype #Demo #WorkInProgress #CloseSource #OpenSource #WebDev #GitHub #TechDevelopment #WhatsApp #ChatApp #InstantMessaging #PWA

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Send Messages Securely. No cloud. No trace. Decentralized P2P encrypted messaging - No setup required

React-like syntax with WebComponents.

​After spending some time with Lit, I really appreciated its lightweight footprint but wasn't a fan of the class-based components. While Vue offers a great approach, I still prefer the intuitive nature of React's syntax for debugging and deterministic rendering. This led me to a challenge: could I build a UI framework using WebComponents that completely eliminates the need for transpilation?

​I have written a breakdown of the concept, the architecture, and where I want to take it. I highly invite you to take a look, check out the code, and explore the live demo.

* How it works: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/projects/dim/dim-jsx-webcomponents
* Checkout the code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim
* Storybook demo: https://dim.positive-intentions.com

​Please note, while the project is open-source, this is a personal exploration rather than an attempt to launch "yet another framework." It is not production-ready and is built for my own upcoming project migrations, but I am sharing it in hopes that the methodology is educational or interesting to the community.

​I would love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to discuss the implementation details.

​#WebDev #WebDevelopment #Frontend #FrontendDev #JavaScript #JS #TypeScript #TS #HTML #HTML5 #CSS #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareEngineer #Coding #Programming #WebDesign #OpenSourceProject #IndieDev #SideProject #Tech #Technology #DevCommunity #Fediverse #FediverseDevs #WebStandards #CustomElements #ShadowDOM #VanillaJS #NoTranspiler #NoBuild #BuildStep #EsModules #ComponentDriven #UIUX #DesignSystems #TechExperiment #LearningInPublic #Developer #ComputerScience #OSS #Github #React #WebComponents #Lit #Vue #ReactJS #JSX #Storybook #TechArticle #TechBlog #TechWriting #WebDevArticles

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Dim

Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...

"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."

... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.

#git #forgejo #scm #vcs #sources #source #code #vps #gitlab #github #codeberg #hosting