2024-09-17
8 分钟Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub's success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father's handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.
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I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 16, 2024.
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Why GitHub actually won Scott Chacon writes up his insider's take on why GitHub became the de facto code collaboration site.
Here's the quick version Quote I can boil it down to exactly two reasons that happen to resonate with each other at the perfect frequency.
1.
GitHub started at the right time.
2.
GitHub had good taste.
All four GitHub co founders had flops both before and after GitHub.
Chris and PJ couldn't quite make fam spam work before GitHub.
Tom and I couldn't quite make chatterbug explode after GitHub.
I think both of these ventures had good taste and great product, but it wasn't the right place or time or market or whatever for them to become GitHub level.
End quote.
One of the problems with success is that so much of it relies on timing, which is one of the big things we cannot control.
What we can control, however, is what we decide to build.