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OpenChaos.dev — Democracy in Code, Until Vercel Saved the Blank Page (www.openchaos.dev)
submitted 2 months 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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[-] itkovian@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

This was bound to happen anyway.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 14 points 2 months ago

What’s the ttl

[-] rainwall@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

Too, too long.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

Someone should vibe code something for that project...

By which I mean add buttplug.io support.

[-] lens0021@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] gtrcoi@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, entropy

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's back to life again, and the 1.3337% check is now moved to client-side

Edit: huh, fucky internet made a double post

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