Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.
Btw, I worked at GitHub for 3 years and they are very aware that slowness is a big issue throughout the whole product. There was a year long cross team effort to improve things but the main goals were not achieved IMO and it shows.
Good question. I don't have now right now but I can prepare one soon. In any case I store zero information from users. When you are logged in traffic goes directly from your browser to GitHub.
This comes to solve the problem of the terrible UX in the most widespread git service. I won't dare to try to convince my whole team, or company, to migrate to GitLab, but this can be easily adopted.
My main goal is to offer a more modern and smoother experience than GitHub, add some features on top of it like push notifications, triage of notifications, a better editing experience,… and integrate the desktop app with your local git
I worked there for 3 years and yes GitHub development happens on github.com. Of course there’s ways to deploy and rollback changes while the site is down but that’s very unusual. The typical flow happens in github.com and uses the regular primitives everybody uses: prs, ci checks, etc.
The pipeline for deploying the monolith doesn’t happen in GitHub Actions though but in a service based in jenkins.
Fun fact: playbooks for incidents used to be hosted in GitHub too but we moved them after an incident that made impossible to access them while it lasted.
I don't remember clearly where we moved them. It was probably to something owned by Google (because GitHub uses Google Workspaces) or Microsoft (for obvious reasons).
The focus is on providing a better experience: faster, with smoother interactions, with higher information density and a lot more focused on your daily work (with features such as bookmarks and drafts).
It's web-based but there will be also desktop apps (thanks to tauri) that will integrate with your local git.
If you start using it and want to ask for feature requests or notify bug reports please go to the discord server: https://discord.gg/RHCJvUSbr5 Thanks!!
I was tired of wasting time looking for online tools all the time to pretty print a JSON to inspect it, encode/decode strings, convert from one markup language to another, checking hashes, etc. For some tasks I was usually using the interactive console of some dynamic language such as python or node but it wasn't easy enough.
So I've made a static web page that you can use online or download to your computer with all those tools and much more. Personally I have that as home page in my browser :)
A mobile app for triaging GitHub notifications in seconds. Available for iOS and Android starting next week.