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OpenChaos.dev — Democracy in Code, Until Vercel Saved the Blank Page (www.openchaos.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by lens0021@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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OpenChaos.dev is an experiment where the most upvoted pull request gets merged every day. Today’s winning PR added a 1.337% chance of serving a blank page. And Vercel, doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, cached it. So a probabilistic failure became a permanent outage.

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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 4 points 6 hours ago

Someone should vibe code something for that project...

By which I mean add buttplug.io support.

[-] lens0021@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

dickbutt is merged last week. Isn't enough? https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos/pull/14

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The most recent web archive link, from 26 Jan

https://web.archive.org/web/20260126194400/https://www.openchaos.dev/

Edit: and a screenshot, taken on my phone

[-] itkovian@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

This was bound to happen anyway.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 14 points 23 hours ago

What’s the ttl

[-] rainwall@piefed.social 17 points 22 hours ago

Too, too long.

this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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