143
OpenChaos.dev — Democracy in Code, Until Vercel Saved the Blank Page (www.openchaos.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

top 7 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 31 points 9 months ago

This was bound to happen anyway.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 17 points 9 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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What’s the ttl

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Someone should vibe code something for that project...

    By which I mean add buttplug.io support.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's back to life again, and the 1.3337% check is now moved to client-side

    Edit: huh, fucky internet made a double post

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •