Compiler project moves its files off GitHub.
Also, the supply cabinet was left wide open again.

Employee Relocates Desk to Satellite Office Citing "Aggressive New Office Furniture"

The Zig programming language project officially announced its migration from GitHub to Codeberg, which is a non-profit service based in Germany. This is the organizational equivalent of taking a critical tool out of the main corporate environment, run by Microsoft, and placing it somewhere quieter, less prone to forced feature updates, and with fewer corporate-branded motivational posters.

The stated reasoning revolves around wanting more control and less vendor lock-in, which is understandable when you consider that GitHub is now less of a community repository and more of a mandatory, all-inclusive corporate campus. The move is a passive-aggressive yet public rejection of the "everything-as-a-service" philosophy, trading in a massive, glossy data center for a small, reliable basement server room. They are effectively hiding their favorite coffee mug in a drawer nobody else knows about.

The Janitor Found a Security Breach During His Lunch Break

GitLab published a report detailing an issue where a widespread NPM supply chain attack was discovered. These packages, the small boxes of digital components every developer uses, were apparently compromised to include malicious code. The incident is not an issue of GitLab's own making, but rather an embarrassing reminder of how fragile the entire open-source ecosystem is.

The reality is that everyone trusts thousands of tiny, free digital dependencies to run their billion-dollar enterprise; this is like building a skyscraper entirely out of paperclips you got from a random box on the street. When you hear about a "widespread supply chain attack," it means the paperclip vendor accidentally sold everyone tiny bits of dynamite. The immediate reaction is to trust nothing, and then immediately go back to trusting everything because the deadlines have not changed.

Google Insists Its Internal Chip-Branding is Better Than Everyone Else's

Google is making the argument that its custom TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) are superior to competitor NVIDIA's GPUs, specifically for AI inference, because the company designed them from the ground up for its own specific software stack. The public relations effort frames this as Google being "positioned to win" the long-term AI race by controlling the entire vertical stack, from the silicon up to the LLM.

This is a classic corporate move: everyone else buys the off-the-shelf Dell machine, but the internal IT department spent ten years building a bespoke "super-computer" that only runs a single, proprietary piece of software written in a dead language. They will win, eventually, provided you only define "winning" as "controlling the hardware that runs the specific service we sell."

Briefs

• Holiday Mandates: The community-run "Happy Thanksgiving" thread somehow reached the top of the news, proving that the most popular story of the day can sometimes just be a mandatory, non-technical HR memo.
• Self-Inflicted Tiers: The open-source community decided to create an Open-Source Figma alternative called Penpot, which is proof that the only way to escape crippling SaaS fees is to spend two weekends a month maintaining a self-hosted version that saves you $50 per month.
• Manager Replacement: A service called AI CEO promises to replace your boss before they replace you; this will solve all the problems by replacing a single point of failure with a distributed system of incomprehensible failure.