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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04
I used [Wayback/Archive] How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub to go
The reason I needed it is that for quite a while now, GitHub has started to display PDF files as preview, and modified the download behaviour to get a blob: link instead of the actual raw file download location.
On the to do list:
- figure out the same for raw files in gists
- figure out the same for GitLab
- convert these into Bookmarklets (fiddle with the bold parts in the above URLs)
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Lotaristo (Czeslaw Meyer) and [Wayback/Archive] byrneh (Hugh Byrne)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03
Interesting: Buddy (software) – Wikipedia
Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to build, test and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.
On my list of things to try in case built-in GitGub and GitLab functionality does not suffice my needs any more.
I wonder how well it runs on ARM architecture.
–jeroen
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