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OpenChaos.dev — Democracy in Code, Until Vercel Saved the Blank Page (www.openchaos.dev)

submitted 5 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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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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