Moving to Gitlab
In early June 2018 the news broke that Microsoft is acquiring Github for the princely sum of $7.5 billion.
No matter what their current spin doctors -- err, management -- would like the general public to believe, a significant percentage of open source aficionados feel this move is not benefitting the FOSS community. It may be the right move for both Github as well as their new owners, and I'm not judging that. However, I personally do not wish to be involved with any of their business or services.
As such I decided to move this blog to a new location on Gitlab. And yes, I am aware that Gitlab then ran on Azure, another Microsoft property:
Gitlab has announced their move to Google, which is being done for technical and performance reasons as part of their adoption of Kubernetes engine.
I suppose once Github starts being absorbed into Microsoft, they will switch to Azure as a platform, effectively replacing Gitlab there.
Anyway, the move itself was done inside of an hour, and quite honestly Gitlab's environment feels at least as nice as Github. The big bonus, of course, is they are entirely built on open source software. You are free to download their entire stack and self-host it if you wish to do so. This would have been the better choice from the start, but I did not know they offered a pages feature as well. My bad.
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Update Aug-2018: the move is done, Gitlab is now on Google's Cloud:
Update Mar-2022: even though I happily run the awesome Gitlab Community Edition at work, I wasn't happy with the non-free nature of hosted Gitlab. So this blog has moved again, this time to Codeberg, an ethical git forge. Check them out.
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