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The outrage over GitHub's joke CD-ROM promotion is absurd because a small marketing team offering a novelty item has essentially zero effect on GitHub's actual infrastructure or uptime.
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Thomas Dziedzic's SQLite migration PR added 735 lines and removed 593 lines across 30 commits and 188 files, building on three earlier PRs (#1705, #1871, #1924).
The migration's scope is documented in a large PR by Thomas Dziedzic that built on prior groundwork PRs. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-14 · original ↗
There are plenty more details in both the linked thread and this SQLite migration PR by Thomas Dziedzic, which added 735 lines and removed 593 lines across 30 commits and 188 files.
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