Scott rants that critics blaming GitHub's joke CD-ROM promotion for its infrastructure/uptime issues fundamentally misunderstand how large companies and marketing teams operate. ✦ AI generated
Scott Tolinski · Syntax · 2026-07-06 · original ↗
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the people who are saying like it's diverting funds from infrastructure or this is why GitHub is down all the time like you people are so out to lunch uh and and and I don't know I got somebody grumpy at me I'm gonna I'm put them on blast actually let me even let me let me do that
verbatim transcript · starts at 24:03
24:03with me left and right about this thing. I said, "This is just a fun promotion." and they're like, "You got to think of the optics." It's like, "Brother, like people are just in such a dang grumpy complaint about anything that like I I I cannot comprehend being mad at this." They're like, "You got to think of the timing and the optics." I I the those two takes like fine I can
24:30understand the optics of it that get hasn't had the best uptime lately but the people who are saying like it's diverting funds from infrastructure or this is why GitHub is down all the time like you people are so out to lunch uh and and and I don't know I got somebody grumpy at me I'm gonna I'm put them on blast actually let me even let me let me
24:52do that uh let me go through my >> Oh my gosh Um uh yeah, let's find this. Let's find this cuz this makes for good content. Uh yes, this guy here. You YouTubers are so out of this world that you can't understand the importance or ways to deliver a better product by all means. You got numb to people's real problems. The performative marketing is the only thing you see and appreciate. Theater
25:21people, YouTube people, influencers. brother, I'm not a theater person. Like, what do you what do you think? I I spent my whole career as a developer building and you're going to say that all I understand is performative marketing because I understand that the three people at GitHub that it takes to produce a promotion like this absolutely influence their infrastructure 0%. Zero big old zero. So, you're on my uh
25:51you're on my list. >> Nice. >> You're on my Yes. And I to be clear, I mean my my list, not not any other kind of list. [laughter] >> I I will say, Scott, for I I saw this news story in my RSS feed. So, I'm subscribed to the the GitHub uh like blog post and stuff. So, I saw it. I clicked the link and I signed up done