{"id":40127,"date":"2026-04-26T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40127"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:56:25","slug":"the-github-disaster-on-april-23-2026-who-broke-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/26\/the-github-disaster-on-april-23-2026-who-broke-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The GitHub Disaster on April 23, 2026 \u2013 Who broke It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Stop - Pixabay\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stop01.jpg\" alt=\"Stop - Pixabay\" align=\"left\" \/>Outages on GitHub are piling up, the GitHub team is frustrated, and Microsoft is piling on with Copilot. Then, on April 23, 2026, am \"incident\" randomly destroyed GitHub repositories during commit operation. On GitHub there is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.githubstatus.com\/incidents\/zsg1lk7w13cf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Incident with Pull Requests<\/a> report. To be clear, mistakes can probably never be completely avoided. But the picture that emerges is a grim one. The question is: Who broke that thing. Answer is: Microsoft is to blame. Read details within my German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/25\/github-desaster-am-23-4-2026-wer-hat-es-kaputt-gemacht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use build-in translation to switch language].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outages on GitHub are piling up, the GitHub team is frustrated, and Microsoft is piling on with Copilot. Then, on April 23, 2026, am \"incident\" randomly destroyed GitHub repositories during commit operation. On GitHub there is now a Incident with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/26\/the-github-disaster-on-april-23-2026-who-broke-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,463],"tags":[2998,47],"class_list":["post-40127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-issue","tag-github","tag-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40128,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions\/40128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}