git.wtf

A counter for the days since the last Git and AI fuck-up, and a short cartoon episode for every real incident that resets it. It's a parody, built on real incidents.

From 2016 to 2025 this domain was a blog about fixing Git. Those posts are still here, unchanged, at their old URLs, listed at /archive/.

How it works

• incidents/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md: one file per incident. Front matter: date, title, category, source_url, source_date, status, a one-line summary and a short facts panel. The body is three short parts: what happened, why it happened, how it ended. The counter counts days since the latest source_date, in the browser, in IST, so it climbs without a deploy.
• archive/<slug>.md: the old posts, with the post's html as the body. Built by scripts/wayback-to-archive.mjs from the Internet Archive's captures, and later by scripts/ghost-to-archive.mjs from a Ghost export.
• src/anime/shots/<id>.json: each incident's episode, an SVG cutscene with cartoon sound. Stills and posters are rendered by scripts/render-cut.mjs; every image carries the git.wtf mark (scripts/wordmark.mjs).
• src/redirects.mjs: every old tag, category, author, page, AMP and feed URL becomes a static redirect page. tests/old-urls.txt lists the old URLs and scripts/check-urls.mjs fails CI if one stops resolving.
• Built with Astro, motion with GSAP and ScrollTrigger, served by Cloudflare Workers (wrangler.jsonc), which builds and deploys every push to master. .github/workflows/ci.yml builds every pull request, runs the URL check and uploads the built site as an artifact.

Working on it

npm install
npm run dev            # http://localhost:4321
npm run build          # dist/
npm run preview        # dist/ served locally, on http://127.0.0.1:8787
npm run check-urls     # against the preview
npm run build:fixture  # a smoke build from tests/fixtures/, never from the real folders

?debug on the homepage exposes the motion runtime on window.__gw; ?reduce previews the reduced-motion version.

Publish a reviewed draft:

node scripts/publish-incident.mjs drafts/2026-11-07-slug.md

It validates the file, moves it into incidents/, builds, commits the file and pushes.