"[1] This blog runs on the cloud but that’s because WordPress is a security nightmare and a cloud VM is the easiest way to sandbox it. Ironic, I know."
Really all that needs to be said. Self-defeating post.
Imo, Github has only been moving further in the right direction lately — and more social features ain't it, chief.
The better value proposition lift from giving folks and teams more free private repos was huge, and the increasingly-prominent integration of Github into enterprise tools is facilitating (if not helping to force) the modernization of enterprise dev outside the software industry.
I've never been a bigger fan of Github, personally. Microsoft seems to be doing the same with Github that it did with Minecraft: amplifying what it does well, fixing what it didn't, and making it more accessible to more folks the way they want to consume it — all while not compromising what made it great to begin with.
Second this. With GH now letting you create Organizations with private repositories, it's starting to transform how I store core on GH.
All of my "big" projects on GH have more than one repo, usually 2-5 depending on what all work needs to be done. Before GH allowed you to create private repos in orgs for free I had hundreds of repositories and had to name them like projectname-website. Now I create orgs for my biggest projects so all my repos are starting to look more like projectname/website instead.
I'll admit, very small change but helps me keep my Github organized.
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Overall Github has gotten only more and more important in my workflow. I find it amazing that this site went from "cool tool" back in my college years to "I literally cannot live without this tool" now.
I can’t wait for GitHub to support hierarchical orgs (like GitLab). I’ve started using GitHub for enterprise and it’s hard to have separate orgs or giant orgs as the two options.
Being able to nest orgs will be great so it’s still easy to organize an entire org as well as the ability to drill down.
Even better would be a tag-like structure where orgs can have relationships other than hierarchies. Topics doesn’t really do this now, but maybe could if they improve the topic search.
Previously, organizations only allowed creating public repositories, so they were limited to open source projects unless you paid $9/user/month. Now they enable free private repo creation for organizations, although many "business" features like protected branches still require the Team plan (now $4/user/month) https://github.com/pricing.
As a Minecraft player, I agree. They let the teams run with more resources, and it has shown in both quality and features in both companies. GitHub recently has been killing in with features IMO
As a Minecraft player as well I disagree. They split the community into Bedrock and Java Edition players. Even very basic game and redstone mechanics differ between the engines.
The Bedrock edition introduced paid resources which would never have been a thing in the Java edition.
Instead of considering cross-play to support the amazing work the CraftBukkit/Spigot devs, they opted to create a new protocol and split the player base. I didn't like the direction where Windows 10 Edition was heading, but I'm glad that there are still thousands of players on Java.
Minecraft already had a mobile app on a separate engine before Microsoft bought it, so this isn't necessarily something Microsoft is at fault for. They just turned it into "bedrock edition" to get it working on Windows and consoles in a cross-platform way, something that likely would have taken a lot longer for the Java edition to achieve.
That's true, I mostly stayed away from Bedrock, so it's hard to say on that front. I understand the split, but Java itself has been very well maintained
Well, this is a clear disconnect in their audiences. What the author misses are aspects of open-source, what you like is making it better for the enterprise.
I'm kind of in love with you after writing this. Thank you for doing what so few product and service companies do: naming a product in a manner that makes it almost instantly-understandable as to what problem it solves.
Wrote this up out of frustration tonight. Would love to hear from other PMs on here about what they've done to effectively scale product at their orgs.
For the record, and for those asking for this to be a real game, FitRPG for iOS is planning to deliver on some of that very notion. It's a super cool app; and I say that with absolutely no affiliation (srs). Google it.
HabitRPG is a web and mobile platform for gamifying habits and life goals that launched via Kickstarter a couple years back that is very successful in helping people do what you've done
Nerd Fitness Academy has created their own game as well, with quests and leveling up. It just released a few days ago. Here's the video tour of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLF2RkZnSY
Recently went back [0] to the open web and feel like this inclusion alone justified that move.
Thanks for sharing. Humble and heart-warming way to end 2025 for an old Internet man.
[0]: https://frankycaron.medium.com/of-an-open-web-rebirth-and-bi...