<a href="https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/users-1.xml" rel="nofollow">https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/users-1.xml</a><p><a href="https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/commits-1.xml" rel="nofollow">https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/commits-1.xml</a>
Thank you, but no. I'll stick with /dev/tty0 . It's federated.
Social media site for devs getting hug-of-death'd by HN... the irony!
It would be nice if the website had more information about the platform before you create an account.
Fixed! Check out the website it shows content now, no landing page anymore
Much better now, thanks!<p>I would describe the website as “twitter for developers and uses your GitHub account for auth”. It’s a simple concept, but I think using your GitHub account to sign in is a great idea and a meaningful differentiator. Good luck!
This was done only in two days, there are important pages missing.
> This was done only in two days<p>So not at all ready to be seen? Maybe we should all flag this so it can re-appear once someone spent at least a bit of time on making it proper and ready for public consumption?
Does this excuse the main page missing <i>any</i> information what this thing even is? Come on.
Errant thought - I kind of hope that the actual social network for developers of the not so distant future looks more like a bunch of us separately building bespoke applications to serve files to each other.<p>> Dave: "Bot, add a folder to my personal data store with the pictures I took this weekend and share it with everyone in my poker group"<p>> Sally: "I see that I've gotten an email from Dave with a magic link conveying access to something. Bot, use this link to negotiate a key exchange with whatever weird app Dave cobbled together (ask his bot if you need help) and then log into my VPS and add a tab to my personal webapp to display the content he has shared."<p>That might be overly optimistic, but it doesn't feel that far off. It's kind of what Tim Berners-Lee build <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_project" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_project</a> for right?
Isn't that just called hosting a website?.. You can just give an agent access to your server and let them do all that, no?<p>There are also places like <a href="https://tilde.town/" rel="nofollow">https://tilde.town/</a> if you want something more social media–esque
Just need to dust off the finger protocol.
Wasn't this originally HN?
Seems to be down...<p>What does it use? masto or hand-crafted stuff?
I have a petty complaint: if you name your social network after a core Unix concept, then why make your users login exclusively through a Microsoft subsidiary?
Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers"
It's a cute name, but considering how combative developers can be about naming, I think it should have been more clever than cute.<p>If 'dev' is developer, 'null' makes me think it's for worthless developers, or for things that developers don't care about.
dev = developer<p>bin = trash
GitHub is a social network already. You’re logging into one social network with another social network. And I’m complaining about that fact on a different social network. What has the world come to?
Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:<p>GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider.<p>If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY
Why does this need OIDC at all? Basic email + password account is like 1-2 prompts away.
I guess at some point developers will have to prove they're serious developers by exposing their GitHub profile.<p>Edit: it's part of your profile already, better vibe code some random ideas to farm some GitHub dev credibility.
How about ssh public keys
Because effective anti-spam account measures are not 1-2 prompts away.
Maybe spam concerns, but your point remains valid.
And having those passwords leaked is probably only another 1-2 prompts away
Guess I am simply not invited to the party then.<p>Or I am not a developer after all.<p><i>Identity crisis intensifies</i>
>Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:<p>>Let's all be willing docile salves<p>This is how you sound
And for developers. Only a tiny percentage of the devs I know actually know what /dev/null is.
How does publicly published PGP based login sounds?
FWIW DOS and Windows both have a null concept too:<p><pre><code> C:\> TYPE file.txt >NUL
C:\></code></pre>
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I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!
Y.a.t.c (yet another twitter clone). Except for theming it brings nothing new to the social media space.
I also dont think sending my tweets to a null device will do much for development.
Ill put my bets on Bsky or Mastodon here.
Your posts have to be approved? Odd way to run a social network imo.
> Failed to open page<p>I'm guessing that wasn't expected result.
Using GH as the only way to associate identity is a bit evil
/tmp/social would have been better I think. dev = device, doesn’t make sense.
Shouldn't that domain be dev-null.social instead of 'shell'? Dorks.
Looks good!
> Computah... build me a social network in PHP. Import the user's profile from GitHub, they shouldn't have to fill anything in. No likes, reposts or algorithms. Add a catchy slogan at the home page. Make no mistakes!
This is interesting: a. Developers on average are probably low on E trait in the Big Five b. Most users in the online developer communities (at least the ones who will be doing the "social" part, per the standard 1% rule of social platforms) loathe LinkedIn-style stuff, being asked to log in or provide PII. c. Most "social" services devs regularly use are for technical/utility stuff (GH, SO, subreddits) more than the social aspect.<p>If a, b and c are true, then this site is reinventing HN/proggit with forced GitHub login on top. NGMI.
I can't see any of the content unless I sign in.<p>I don't know if I want to sign in, because I can't see any of the content.
I'm thinking of it a different way. In order to join a social media network these days, I need to have some assurance that it's going to be worth my time. They didn't provide any, so screw 'em.
it was supposed to be public. maybe it got reverted. the team were moving super fast
That's fixed
Very good idea
conceptually, just sounds like a place you go when you don't want anyone to hear, see or think about you.
Devs need to be around actual humans in-person <i>more</i>, not <i>less</i>.
> No likes. No reposts. No algorithm. Everything else goes to /dev/null.<p>*Closes tab
Just skip the whole thing and send your thoughts straight to /dev/null
Weird, especially because it DOES have likes.
Yep our bad, we fixed this, no landing page anymore
No, it has <i>stars</i>. /s<p><i>sigh</i> Yeah, that's really a bad look for them to claim no likes and then have something that is functionally identical.
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> follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.<p>Isn't that Twitter?
Why do all these guys have "Soy Face" when you take their pictures?
it's fully open source (<a href="https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls</a>) and received over 200 PRs in less than 48 hours