Gitea or forgejo are super solid and super lightweight with a sqlite db
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Just like everyone else, I'll also recommend forgejo. But be prepared to handle bot traffic if you self-host it. My instance was hit almost constantly until I added strict rate limits, and made most of the stuff private. For a portfolio, I think Codeberg (or GitHub, that's where everyone looks for stuff) is better that self-hosting. But it can be good to keep a private instance for mirrors.
I permits the access of my self hosted services via a cloudflare tunnel, do you think it is enough by default to handle the bots? Also I don't particularly want that people can find my portfolio just like that without a direct link from my LinkedIn or my resume so even if I use Codeberg I will not let it fully public.
Cloudflare may be enough, but you can also look at stuff like Anubis.
Definitely more than enough. You don’t get better bot fighting than that.
I think radicle needs to get more love.
It's probably not the best way to showcase your skills to a recruiter, but the tech itself is really interesting.
I hadn't heard of these, thanks for sharing!
I just checked it it looks good but the challenge for me is also that it looks good as a portfolio of what I do in electronics. I would like some PDF preview or even gbf preview if possible do you think radicle could provide that?
I think the radicle-explorer project handles the web interface. I have no idea whether it does pdf preview. It does seem to manage markdown tho.
Sorry I can't be more help, I'm really new to it myself too. I just wanted to mention it because I think it's a cool project.
To add to the Forgejo circlejerk you can also self host it. It's managed by a democratic non-profit and has very active development. The UI is also pleasant to look at with nice diff/PR views.
The self hosting thing is a major safety point since if forgejo somehow fails in 10 years (I think it will be dominant in 10 personally) you can move to a self hosted instance with self hosted action runners. This makes it safe to move company accounts onto it but you might have issues with hard github dependency such as the github API or other organisation features.
Forgejo should be the first choice when looking for alternatives, although enterprise size companies should also consider Gitlab.
GitHub. You're hosting public stuff so there's no more risk of your data being sold on GitHub than anywhere else public. GitHub is what recruiters understand and expect.
I'll get downvoted by extremists but this is the best option if you want a job and aren't also an extremist.
I would consider Codeberg or maybe even Tangled for actual projects you're working on, but for just showing stuff of there's no advantage to not using GitHub.
Fuck microsoft.
Maybe in the 90s when Bill Gates was running the show. These days they're mid tier evil. Barely even maintaining a monopoly.
If it was Oracle, or Broadcom, or Meta then sure, but Microsoft aren't in their league any more.
The only way this assessment makes sense is if you're looking at specific industries or something. Meta can't compare to Microsoft in other areas. We have to use Teams and Office because all our customers do. Enterprise/Companies are integrated and bound to their tooling and user and system management.
Meta is localized. I don't see it even nearly as prevalent as Microsoft is.
I might say to do both, with one of the two as a mirror
Github is important for recruiters, especially non technical ones that aren't familiar with the alternatives. Since OP has the motivation for it, having a second place might show off that OP understands git beyond Github, or the values OP might share with the employer.
I'm not aware of any advantage of gitea over forgejo. I'm running the latter myself and I'm very happy.
Gitlab provides more corporate bling bling around the core git experience than forgejo but is also way heavier.
I'd check if jorgejo fulfils your needs.
Also in addition you could check out codeberg.org which runs forgejo and is a nonprofit - especially when it comes to recruiters a public facing entity might look better to someone who has no idea of self hosting.
I really enjoy forgejo though, it's just a very straight forward piece of software which does what's it advertising.
what format are your files in? if you want to show schematic previews from like gerber files i think you need something like a file store instead of git.
that's a good point, but the tool I use allow to convert schematic into pdf which is maybe easier to show as a preview. Anyway I use kicad and Altium format.
git isn't really made for binary files either. i understand the desire if you're already using it for source control but if not i'd recommend looking at something else.
I like forgejo. Its a fork of ~~gitlab~~ gitea without the shenanigans. It has a lot of features and no tracking. Unless you want it too. And its lightweight
Forgejo is not a fork of Gitlab. It's a fork of Gitea which is a fork of Gog.
Whops typo. Corrected
"The shenanigans" with Gitea = being Chinese. If you're not a craven racist then either is fine.
https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/:
Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public.
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