Monthly notes from Evan Hahn covering April 2026, including blog posts defending GitHub's uptime, a new version of his setbigtimeout library, April Fool's posts on Zelda Dungeon, and a collection of links about AI skepticism, driverless cars, Palantir employee concerns, and other topics.
The author reflects on Open Source before GitHub, when projects ran on self-hosted servers and dependencies carried social weight. GitHub made publishing and discovery frictionless but its decline now threatens the archival memory of Open Source. The piece calls for a neutral, well-funded archive to preserve code and project history independent of any single company.