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Nimble Industries
Company blog · nimbleindustries.io · on HN as colinbartlettprogrammingbusiness
Nimble Industries is the company blog at nimbleindustries.io, writing about programming and business. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Shared in GitHub outage threads as a look at GitHub's downtime record, citing a 97% rise in downtime minutes since Microsoft's acquisition and a post on status page evolution.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nimble Industries builds purpose-driven software like StatusGator, TrackSSL, and VimTricks – high-impact products solving real problems with clarity, reliability, and performance, trusted by teams worldwide.
Most-linked posts?
- Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
What Hacker News says?
I’m working on a thing I’m calling DriftWatch that attempts to track, objectively, how far out of date you are on dependencies, which I call dependency drift. I’ve posted about it here before [1]. I’m using it in my consulting practice to show clients the importance of keeping up to date and it’s working well. I agree with the parent that it’s important to lock to avoid surprises (in Ruby, we commit the Gemfile.lock…
Comment linking /2020/01/31/dependency-drift-a-metric-for-software-aging/
on “A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`”Submitted Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft? as a story · 243 points
HN discussionIf you’re wondering if GitHub has been down more since the Microsoft acquisition, I actually just recently did some analysis on that using their status page data (the answer is yes): https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
Comment linking /2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/
on “GitHub was down”Submitted Dependabot is now free as a story · 158 points
HN discussionhttps://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-... 97% increase in minutes of downtime since Microsoft. Could be better reporting now though.
Comment linking /2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/
on “GitHub was down”Submitted The Pyramid of Software Developer Job Satisfaction as a story · 53 points
HN discussionThe following article has been shared in HN recently, so there's some ground to those claims https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
Comment linking /2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft
on “GitHub was down”Submitted Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging as a story · 49 points
HN discussionhttps://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
Comment linking /2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/
on “GitHub was down”Submitted The First Annual StatusGator Status Page Awards as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI read an article about it, look for "status page evolution" https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
Comment linking /2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/
on “GitHub was down again”Submitted GitHub down 41% more often since Microsoft acquisition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted VimTricks: The Vim Newsletter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 key insights for improving engineering team performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We stopped publishing our revenue on Indie Hackers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Essential DevOps Slack Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mute Apocalyptic Siren Noise on Video Calls with Krisp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Status Page Is Awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Save Precious Minutes During Incident Response as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Under The Hood: Inside a Status Page Aggregator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Status Page Is Useless If You Don't Use It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying a Cachet Status Page to DigitalOcean as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dump Google Analytics and use Ahoy to track your Rails app traffic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Break the cycle of write, atrophy, rewrite with consistent software maintenance as a story · 1 points
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