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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by jiggawatts on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:17PM (#29364123)
Offline should be the default, not an option.

Otherwise nobody will notice how fragile their workflow is until it is too late to fix it!

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by Aeolun on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:03PM (#29364867)
I recently realized I was the only person running the API locally when suddenly all our unmocked tests started failing only on my machine.

All other tests, including the ones on the CI server, were connecting to the hosted integration environment for any unmocked call (and thus randomly modifying state there).