Archive for the ‘GitHub’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/05
Infinite magic awaits the intrepid developer willing to abuse git plumbing. After all, git is just a database with a terrible interface.
From [Wayback/Archive] Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 – Tyler Cipriani
I wonder how various endpoint security solutions handle this (:
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/29
Just in case I ever want to migrate a repository from SourceForge to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] ipmitool/sf2gh: migrates tickets to GH from SF
This was developed for the Gene Ontology but is generic and will work for any project.
The project consists of two files, the extensive [Wayback/Archive] sf2gh/README.md at master · ipmitool/sf2gh · GitHub which has a very important tip:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/17
Closely looking at the archived versions of [Wayback/Archive] JavaScript Bookmarklet for the WordPress classic editor which enables mastodon publishing (assuming you have one mastodon publishing account enabled under https://jetpack.com/redirect/?source=jetpack-social-connections-classic-editor / https://wordpress.com/marketing/connections/) I found out there is a link gist.github.com/mine.
Investigating it, I found it has special meaning depending on being logged on to GitHub or not:
- Logged on,
gist.github.com/mine will redirect to the Gist homepage for your account
- Logged off,
gist.github.com/mine will redirect to
This behaviour seems undocumented, at least there are no meaningful results when searching for [Wayback/Archive] “gist.github.com/mine” – Google Search.
Another odd thing: github.com/mine does not exist as it returns a [Wayback/Archive] Page not found · GitHub (at least at the time of writing).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/02
For people like me that use Gist or GitHub comments as a image hosting service like Imgur or the the now defunct ImageShack.
In due time (parts of) GitHub might become unavailable too, but since they diversified, I think the chance is lower. This is great because the list of List of image-sharing websites is not really growing but the subset of Defunct photo-sharing websites is.
You have to remember that unlike for instance Imgur, which can be used anonymously, the URL of pictures that are added to Gists or GitHub comments are bound to your GitHub user id.
So for instance [Wayback/Archive] 232005837-5d3c45d8-4efe-4759-a968-4ce276e35a35.png (899×503) contains the ID 2033367 which us the user ID of jpluimers.
Queries and results
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote:
The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology.
I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for the decline as well:
Anyway, the graph in that post is just a sexy version of a query you can create yourself on the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer). That’s why I included both below.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform: 87.25%
Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages.
April uptime not even had one nine, dropping below 89%.
Which begs this interesting question
“How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” by Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub just published a blogpo…” – mas.to:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/20
Via [Wayback/Archive] Importing a repository with GitHub Importer – GitHub Docs I found [Wayback/Archive] Import repository · GitHub which can import from Subversion, Mercurial, TFVC, and Git as per [Wayback/Archive] About GitHub Importer – GitHub Docs.
Note this will import the repository, but not any surrounding things (like tickets/issues, wiki, etc).
In that sense, the more than 10 year old [Wayback/Archive] SourceForge: GitHub Project Importer as documented in [Wayback/Archive] SourceForge Support / Documentation / GitHub Importer does a way better job the other way around.
If you want to import more than just a repository into GitHub, then some inspiration is at [Wayback/Archive] Migrate from Sourceforge to Github – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matthew Talbert, [Wayback/Archive] Masood Khaari, [Wayback/Archive] Thomas and [Wayback/Archive] Sergey Ponomarev) for instance with these tools:
Especially the last one is interesting as it allows you to separate tickets from repository import. This opens up the opportunity to do the svn to git conversion yourself and keep that conversion in place to you can use it to sync incoming svn changes towards the git repository.
The above does not cover CVS. For that, be sure to read these:
Via [Wayback/Archive] import sourceforge into github – Google Search.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/24
You can find the binary files sound files of the Mastodon beep sound at
They were created by [Wayback/Archive] Josef Kenny (blog: [Wayback/Archive] josef.one; Mastodon “i made that mastodon boop sound”: [Wayback/Archive] josef (@jk@mastodon.social) – Mastodon) early 2017 and updated with metadata later that year. In 2022 it became clear that using the sound is allowed as long as there is credit:
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