My nephew graduated with a CS degree a few months ago & I have no idea if he's had any luck finding an entry-level job in his field. I'm a senior engineer w/ 25+ years experience & it's been extremely difficult to stay employed. Nor are our experiences anomalous; I know plenty of folks who are 6-24+ months out of work in tech, and not for lack of trying to find a new job.
I'm on the other side of the fence. We're just about done migrating from GitHub to GitLab (self-hosted) and it's been refreshing to DGAF about any of the GH outages I read about.
Similar boat myself too, finished moving all important stuff from GitHub to self-hosted Forgejo with cross-platform builds. Not only do I avoid all the downtime stuff, but E2E builds also takes ~20% of the completion time it used to take, since now my runners have dedicated hardware hosted at home.
To maintain a fair comparison, GitHub has supported self-hosted runners for several years (maybe that doesn’t work for your specific usage, for whatever reason).
> To maintain a fair comparison, GitHub has supported self-hosted runners for several years
Yeah, tried that first, as I didn't want to move to Forgejo, I just wanted to keep working when I wanted to work.
The GitHub runner on Linux seemed fine, but the ones for macOS and Windows seemingly did something that made them a hell lot slower than even running VMs and then executing stuff inside those. I'm not sure what the runner is doing, if there is some built-in sandboxing or what not for those platforms, but it wasn't feasible to rely on for me as the builds took way too long time.
We were on self-hosted Gitlab but after a merger were forced to Github. Navigation feels painful in comparison and basic features such as commit graph are now behind more expensive tiers.
> We were on self-hosted Gitlab but after a merger were forced to Github. Navigation feels painful in comparison and basic features such as commit graph are now behind more expensive tiers.
Same experience here. Add to that that even on Enterprise tier:
- 1 Enterprise : 1 namespace - although you can segment it with Orgs, we were advised not to do it because we're too small (~2k people) (GL: groups, subgroups, sub-subgroups, ...)
- SSH deploy keys are singletons across the entire instance and repo-bound (and Weblate for instance can only use its own key), so you need a service account for that (GL: instance-wide SSH deploy keys that you can activate in specific repos)
Interesting! I worked with Gitlab and I also thought it was quite clunky. If it was not for the stability issues GitHub is fine. Any other alternatives to GH or GL?
Which works fine, right up until China releases a new DeepSeek model that's 85% as capable as an Anthropic or OpenAI premium model but costs a fraction of what either of those US companies are charging.
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