It's 500 Friday at GitHub as source shack takes an hour-long morning totter

Code shack GitHub has rounded out the week with "elevated error rates" as developers learned that Friday is a day for bacon sandwiches rather than pull requests. Things kicked off at around 08:30 UTC, and the source shed admitted by 08:52 UTC that something was indeed amiss. The outpouring of developer grief and snark on …

[nematoad]

Modus operandi.

Microsoft?

More like Midas in reverse.

It seems as if everything they touch turns to shit

[logicalextreme]

Jaunty 500 errors

There is little I find more singly infuriating than a web service (especially one where something you've spent a long time doing/filling in may be at risk) saying "Oops!" (no matter how many ⟨o⟩s it contains) on a 5xx error page. You fscked up something important and your users may be enraged by this; don't glibly capsize the boat in an effort to match your "casual" branding.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait a minute

I thought we had agreed that this was supposed to be a Monday feature.

[druck]

Mastering

Maybe they need to master the ability of staying up, before messing around with names.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Juneteenth

Several tech companies are declaring today to be a holiday. It's possible that a GitHubber deployed changes when it's simultaneously a Friday and a minimum staff day.