The GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault

NOTE: This is a migration of an old post from my previous blog.

Something extremely cool happened to two of my GitHub repositories (please pardon the pun). Namely, they were included in Github’s Arctic Vault Archive program.

In short, GitHub has partnered with a Norwegian company to write some of the repositories to special, durable film reels and deposit them 250 meters underground in an abandoned coal mine in the remote Svalbard islands.

All in all, about 200 3500-foot (1km) reels of film were thus deposited.

Given how often we hear the familiar complaint of the supposed transience of modern products, it is uplifting to see a company take a concrete action to remedy this. As for myself, I am deeply honored to have something that I created preserved for posterity.