I have noticed a GitHub bug for a few weeks, but I kept forgetting to ask publicly about it.

Today, I noticed it again, and I tracked it down to README.rst files, so I wrote this post:

Has anyone else noticed that some READMEs on GitHub have been broken recently?

I thought it was just me, but the pattern seems to be like code blocks in rst files no longer get formatted.

https://mastodon.social/@webology/112249549385519057

This led to several friends chiming in and one link to this open GitHub issue thanks to Funky Bob

The story’s moral is that writing software is hard; even GitHub makes mistakes and breaks things.

If a trillion-dollar tech company can break things for weeks, cut yourself some slack the next time you stumble on a production.

Disclaimer: I wrote this post while talking in this month’s Conference Chats.