Armin Ronacher reflects on GitHub's evolution from transformative social infrastructure to a potentially declining platform. The essay traces open source history (SourceForge → self-hosted → GitHub), explains how GitHub + npm enabled the micro-dependency explosion, and expresses concern about Microsoft's stewardship and what may replace it.
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Before GitHub
Armin Ronacher questions GitHub's future under Microsoft stewardship, tracing how it transformed open source but accidentally enabled the micro-dependency explosion and may be superseded.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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