Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
Meanwhile, Microsoft is offering to buy out over 8k engineers in an early retirement, while Facebook simply lays off 8k engineers https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/23/meta-lines-up-layoffs-while-microsoft-offers-buyouts
AI hype AI hype AI hype
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber "... left Microsoft last month after nearly 16 years to join Google, leading product for Google Chat"
Good lord, how bad do things have to be for a sixteen year veteran of Office to want to join a google chat team?
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber thanks for the eww tip
also holy shit that is a lot of execs
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@cwebber thanks for the eww tip
also holy shit that is a lot of execs
@castanea_jo @cwebber non-Emacs users just visit https://archive.ph/jZyGz
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@cwebber thanks for the eww tip
also holy shit that is a lot of execs
@castanea_jo @cwebber like…. A LOT of executives
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber Gift link for anyone who can't bust the paywall easily https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IllwWjRFcVFLQlAiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTE3MzYxL21pY3Jvc29mdC1leGVjdXRpdmUtZGVwYXJ0dXJlcy1ub3RlcGFkIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc3NDg3NTg3LCJpYXQiOjE3NzcwNTU1ODd9.nhT09NUkzDhzBw6zriIilWfx-6GoUcEqrQ23DUKLjm4&utm_medium=gift-link
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber Side note for EWW users; I wrote a Transient menu for EWW not long ago as part of the Casual package. https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/EWW-Usage.html
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber thanks, links worked fine for the pay wall
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber forever thinking about how the moment MS bought Dependabot, any development on it almost immediately stopped and their FAQ for a while straight up said they don't have enough manpower to accept new packaging ecosystems for the app to handle
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber@social.coop
TheVerge paywall is bypassable with JavaScript disabled, so either disable JS in adblocker settings or use something that doesn't support JS (like curl) would work. -
Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber Eww is great. Thanks, @larsmagne23 !
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Fascinating, though walled, read about the decline of GitHub inside Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/tech/917361/microsoft-executive-departures-notepad
> “There’s basically no more GitHub at all anymore,” one GitHub employee tells me. “It’s all Microsoft, and the company is collapsing, both in outages that are reallllly bad and have torched the company reputation… and in an exodus of leadership.”
Emacs users: you can access it through M-x eww. Somehow, eww remains my favorite paywall-busting browser
@cwebber meanwhile I get github job openings forwarded to me daily.
Yea wow thanks what an amazing opportunity.
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