# What Is Going On With GitHub?

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Podcast: [HTML All The Things - Web Development, AI, and Developer Careers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/html-all-the-things-web-development-ai-and-developer-careers-863818)
Published: 2026-05-12T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

GitHub has seen outages, Copilot issues, and a serious merge queue bug. Matt and Mike discuss whether developers are relying too much on one platform.

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