Crawling Back to GitHub

Well, here I am again on GitHub. After months of trying to convince myself that I could live without it, I’ve caved and created a new account.

My little Codeberg experiment wasn’t terrible - the platform itself is actually pretty decent. But man, the constant friction with just about every developer tool I use eventually wore me down. Trying to get SonarCloud working? Nope. Coveralls? Good luck. Even something as simple as status badges on my READMEs became a headache. Almost everything in the dev ecosystem just assumes you’re on GitHub, and swimming against that current got exhausting.

What finally broke me was realizing how much time I was wasting on infrastructure stuff rather than actual coding. GitHub Actions just… work. They’re right there, they’re free, and they do what I need without me having to tinker with configurations for hours. Could I have replicated all this elsewhere? Probably. Did I want to spend my weekends setting up CI pipelines instead of building actual projects? Hell no.

Don’t get me wrong - I still have my issues with GitHub. Microsoft’s increasing grip on open source gives me the creeps, and some of the CoPilot stuff feels ethically questionable at best. But at the end of the day, the convenience factor won out. The barrier to entry is practically non-existent, and having everything in one place means I can focus on the code rather than the plumbing.

Oh, and about the new account - there’s no grand reason behind it. I just felt like a fresh start. Sometimes you just want to hit the reset button, you know? If you’re looking for me, I’m now over at joe-mccarthy - original name, I know.