Why Do They Hide Their Private Repos From Me

Someone asks what's the difference between Git and GitHub, and gets a technically accurate yet wildly inappropriate analogy. The answer has 124 upvotes because developers appreciate both version control and questionable metaphors. The real tragedy is that 91% upvoted the original question instead of just typing it into a search engine.

The silent killer of build systems: auto-detected indentation. One developer uses tabs, another uses spaces, and suddenly your Makefile implodes because it requires exact tab characters for rules. The editor helpfully "fixed" your indentation and now your CI pipeline is a burning building behind you while you smile, knowing exactly who to blame. Nothing says "welcome to dependency hell" like watching four months of work collapse because someone's IDE thought it knew better than GNU Make's 1976 tab requirement.

The classic highway exit meme strikes again! Here we have the lone developer of a side project making that sharp right turn away from actually finishing a working MVP. Instead, they're veering off into the abyss of "what if I add this one more feature" and "maybe I should refactor this entire section for the fifth time." Let's be honest - we've all got at least three half-finished GitHub repos that started with grand ambitions. You know, the ones where commit messages gradually evolve from "Initial commit" to "Fixed minor bug" to "WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING" before finally reaching "Last commit before abandonment (2019)." The road to production is paved with the corpses of hobby projects that died because we just had to implement that custom authentication system instead of using Auth0 like a normal person.

When your GitHub contributions actually change the world but your YouTube dance videos get all the fame. The knight with 500 GitHub followers stands tall and majestic—a true warrior of code who's probably fixed critical bugs in Linux kernels and contributed to libraries used by millions. Meanwhile, the tiny figure with 2 million YouTube subscribers is just showing off their "Hello World" tutorial with clickbait thumbnails. Real devs know where the true power lies. Quality over quantity, folks!

Ah, the special hell of long-running PRs. You started that feature branch with such optimism three months ago, and now it's a fossil record of your coding journey while the main branch zooms ahead like it's running from your merge conflicts. 342 commits behind master is practically a different timeline at this point. Your branch isn't just divergent—it's practically in another dimension where Git's merge algorithm will eventually have an existential crisis. The only thing more painful than the inevitable rebase will be explaining to your team why you're still asking about the health of a branch that should have been merged or euthanized months ago. But hey, at least you've got a sense of humor about your impending Git disaster!

Garbage in, garbage out has never been more relevant. GitHub's Copilot learned from millions of repos, including your spaghetti code with 27 nested if-statements and variables named 'temp1', 'temp2', and 'finalForRealThisTime'. Now AI is suggesting the same atrocities back to you. It's karma in digital form - the technical debt you've been accumulating for years is finally sending you an invoice.