| Thank you for being humble and describing the ways you use GitHub! I'm the same, and it's reassuring to know that I'm not the only one just using it as a free web host for personal projects. Until starting a new job in January 2021, I "knew git" to the extent of git pull, git add, git commit -m, and git push. For everything else I just made a copy of the repo. Now I've learned a little more about branches and merge requests, but I still make a copy of the repo and copy my changes over when things go wrong. https://xkcd.com/1597/ Like you, I got some password-related warnings on GitHub, and honestly it's scaring me away. I know it'll take an hour or so to figure out what went wrong, regenerate a ton of SSH keys for every computer I own and link them to my account, disable 2FA because my phone number is in another country... I'd rather just upload a file, thanks. The increased overhead means I'd rather just use FTP to upload some files to an HTTP server, but I don't think that such free FTP web hosts exist any more. At least, not ones with a domain that people recognise. That said, peterburk.github.com is no longer accessible, only peterburk.github.io, so maybe it is time for me to go looking for a free .com subdomain. I'm grateful for GitHub hosting all the junk I decide to share, and I'm obviously not their target market if I'm not paying. I just wish there were a place I could drag & drop to upload content publicly. |
You could do a single one per computer. You could even do a shared single one across all computers (it’s recommended against but not strictly worse than a shared password)
> disable 2FA because my phone number is in another country
Don’t use SMS for 2FA. Use TOTP (Google Authenticator or similar app. There are alternatives that let you sync) or U2F (hardware key)