Friday Links: Leaving GitHub, Friendster revival, and life in 1999
01 May 2026 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. GitHub made it to the headlines with outages and Copilot pricing. Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty, is already leaving GitHub (4min). He’s not the only one. But believe it or not, there was still open source before GitHub (13min).
#2. I never used it, but a guy is trying to revive Friendster (3min), the first social media network.
#3. The defense industry already faced cheaper alternatives, efficiencies and consolidation, and a broken talent pipeline. Now it’s time for the tech industry (15min).
#4. Want some time off from social media? What about using the internet like it’s 1999 (11min)? Not with a desperately slow connection, but without feeds.
In case you missed it, last week I wrote about a newspaper-style feed for blog aggregators (2min) and Bubbles (2min) did it. Also, I documented 7 interesting ideas I found recently (2min).
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See you next Friday with more links.
Cesar