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I doubt it was an accident, it's trivial to delete a repo on GitHub. I think they wanted their involvement (git commit history) removed from the primary repo.

I was pretty excited when I first saw it on Dribbble and wanted to build an open source clone when I got time. I still need to get on that.

http://dribbble.com/shots/279956-What-s-up

Unless they moved, they mentioned they were on Rackspace a while back, switching from cloud servers to dedicated servers.

https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace

There is one problem though I can see which is a lot of package managers link straight to GitHub's raw tarballs as well as some deployment tools. Hopefully that will be improved over time though.

This is however another layer of abstraction. They are not a torrent hosting site, just a simple app for your computer that connects to sites. It's no different than a browser that visits web pages. They just made it easier to find content like that of Google.

Craftsman founder reminds me of Ninja programmer and Rockstar developer.

A tad bit ironic as you founded AppFog.

Wow this looks cool. I appreciate you sharing this. I've been looking around for something affordable for my startup and this should be helpful for us.

Did you by chance hire someone to do the illustrations/drawings on your site? I really like those and am needing some as well.

I disagree. The more people use Social login and the less people use their one shared password on all sites which tends to be "password1", the better.

I built http://hubnotify.com for this exact purpose. Currently it works with GitHub, but I have a roadmap of BitBucket and package managers (npm, packagist, rubygems, etc) as well. It's a free service, hope it helps you.

The main Bootstrap site has been updated to 3.1 just a bit ago: http://getbootstrap.com

I don't think those two are comparable. Computing is known to be cheaper over time due to Moore's law, but you can't equate gas/electric/water the same way as there are other factors (population, demand, supply) that weigh in. Hopefully more innovation into alternative electricity (solar) will help with part of it. Another factor is inflation such as employee wages to maintain water supplies could increase the end cost to consumers.

It shows the language that the majority of the code is written in.

For example, go to https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-js and click on the red bar.

More info at https://github.com/blog/1037-highlighting-repository-languag...

I agree. I almost wonder if when people say that it's as if it's their only idea they've ever had. From my experience and some friends, we constantly get new ideas and talk about them. I wish I could build them all. Take some from me and go build it!

My thought on this is that, I think up "my" idea so that way it benefits people in some way and because I feel the market is not satisfying a need as well as for my own use. So if someone else comes in and does it and I can use it, I actually see that as a good thing as I would rather see software solve problems than never exist.

One example I keep getting stuck on is a Craigslist competitor I've worked off and on as a side project for the past 3 or so years. Every time I get frustrated or stuck on some aspect I think of another way to get past it. I still haven't seen anything really competitive emerge in the space that users have wanted. If it isn't my idea that executes the vision and it is someone else, I will still be happy that it happened at all as I think eBay/Craigslist duopoly is not enough or sufficient for C2C/B2C local and shipping transactions.

They were early to the FlatUI trend. Now they are starting the ZeroUI trend.

I believe WordPress is moving forward. Here is just one of the many OO classes. You can also do OO in plugin development as well.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includ...

If you want to disable it entirely: http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/06/disable-notification-center-r...

I found out about SourceTree after I had already learned the commands and it improved my productivity a ton, I can do everything faster with it and rarely use commands. It has so many features baked in it is amazing. Huge props to Atlassian for buying it and making it free. It is now my goto recommendation for anyone getting into Git.

Maybe you lose interest/motivation after a long time of not launching or it just doesn't go anywhere and it could be valuable to another person.

It's a project called Whoops:

https://github.com/filp/whoops

Is it really that hard to navigate to the source? https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins...

If you are using LESS, you are probably capable of looking at Twitter Bootstrap's LESS files to find them.

eBay owns a reported at least 25% of Craigslist [1]. Whenever I tell people they are genuinely surprised. Craigslist never has really added huge features in years and I honestly think it is because eBay slows them down and doesn't want them to. Think about how Twitter and Facebook have grown built APIs, 3rd party integration and apps. Craigslist doesn't even have an official iPhone app.

They've had the capital, the resources, and the users who provided the content which were all they needed and could eventually launch a way to ship and provide feedback for users and destroy eBay. I think Craig sold out and doesn't have a lot of say in the legal matters which is why it happens in the first place and Craigslist really will never improve.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay#ci...

That was my first thought when I saw this. It seems even more strange they discontinued it only to revive it with changes they could have just iterated through with new features/changes like this release.

I blogged a bit about this, with discovery and an app store type area with 3rd party apps like my site could be of use and extend features beyond what GitHub wants to support. If you want to read about my ideas: http://derekmyers.com/posts/open-source-information-overload...

Can we get the ability to change our usernames?

My thought is that could work together with other tools. Say you do your next deploy with heroku, it says there are unsaved changes and asks you to first do a 'heroku pull' to pull the changes and you can then commit them or you could blow them away with 'heroku push -f'.

I'd say 80% of the sites online are managed by one or two people. They may need the scalability of the cloud for traffic bursts, but we can't say cloud is the future if all of our existing tools and workflows are completely broken.

For the past year I was building a cloud competitor to Heroku. We had a traditional host (like HostGator) and we talked to those customers about moving to the new cloud infrastructure and all the benefits to why. Most people said it was too complicated and were stuck in their work flows (FTP and file managers). Which is why I wanted to chime in with FTP is not dead.

I'm planning on writing about this in more depth later, but this is essentially the route every cloud hosting company is taking right now and I think it's a bad to only allow that kind of deployment.

Don't get me wrong, I love Capistrano, git deploy hooks, ruby gems that do deploys (heroku), but most cloud hosts are only offering this mechanism to deploy apps. FTP became popular because of the ease of use for designers and webmasters. You don't always need to deploy your entire application for simple changes. Another big one is the ajax file editor in the browser.

For trivial changes a simple file change would suffice. When you do an entire deploy for app like this, depending on your dependencies and payload, it could take a long time. What if you had the wrong price and need to make a change immediately? Of course maybe now there are multiple environments which play a factor too.

I do realize that was before we had multiple web servers running the app and that is part of the reason, but there are still ways to make it work (file mounts).

I'm hoping more deployment options in the future and that cloud hosts realize the need is still there from traditional hosting.

I'm a fan of both Hover.com and NameCheap.com. Both are great, however Hover focuses on just domains and I like their simpler interface and no hosting upsells and because whois privacy is factored into the domain price so I don't have to buy anything separate.

If you want to use my referral link, https://hover.com/puShQcGy or just http://hover.com if not. Hope it helps.

It seems a bit ironic to use a front-end framework, but not a back-end framework. You should look at http://fuelphp.com, another alternative to Laravel and is a light weight PHP 5.3 framework.