Episode 662

The GitHub Diet

April 12th, 2026

1 hr 24 mins 39 secs

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About this Episode

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
  • LFNW2026 Schedule
  • Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
  • Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
  • Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
  • Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
  • Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
  • Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
  • Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
  • Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
  • opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
  • Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
  • Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
  • NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
  • Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
  • NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
  • Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
  • Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
  • Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
  • Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
  • Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
  • Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices