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You can now submit your GitHub repo to be the select few that may get the code burned into a CD and delivered to your home
Less than two days after PlayStation confirmed physical game discs are going away, GitHub decided to bring one back. The Microsoft-owned code hosting platform posted on X that it would now let developers order a burned CD of their public GitHub repo, "physically yours, forever," and linked out to a Microsoft Forms page to collect shipping details. While other companies also mocked Sony’s decision this week, GitHub is the only one that went this far, but is it too far?
GitHub’s CD offer is a joke, but it’s real and doesn’t last that long.
GitHub’s X post reads, "We heard you. And we agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let’s be real." It links to gh.io/cd, which opens a Microsoft Forms page titled "GitHub Presents Your Code, On a CD."
The whole thing is an elaborate joke aimed at Sony, the same kind of gag Domino’s UK and KFC Spain ran with fake "digital only" pizza and chicken announcements this week. Except GitHub’s version comes with a real intake form asking for a GitHub username, a public repo URL, shipping address, and phone number.
GitHub CDs are only for a 1000 “eligible submissions”
The Microsoft 365 form confirms this is a short, capped run. Signing up does not guarantee a disc, since only the first 1,000 eligible submissions get one, and only one CD per person is allowed.
GitHub says shipping could take a few weeks, and availability depends on the recipient’s country or region, so even if you rushed to fill the form, by the time the CD arrives, the joke would be long forgotten.
The offer window is short too, running from July 2 to July 6, 2026, four days total. On the privacy side, GitHub says it only uses the submitted name, email, phone number, and address to ship the disc, does not use that data for anything else, and deletes it once the CD ships.
The form itself asks for eight pieces of information: a GitHub username, the full URL of the public repo to burn, a confirmation checkbox that the submitter owns that repo and grants GitHub permission to press it, full name, email, country, shipping address, and phone number for carriers that require it on international orders.
Standard shipping fields, nothing unusual, aside from the fact that a Fortune 500 subsidiary is running it as a four-day joke.
GitHub CD tweet was amusing to some and borderline annoying to others
GitHub’s post had already crossed a million views within hours, and the replies split into two camps. One side found it funny. Developer Ruslan Khairullin called the X post’s closing line, about code being "physically yours, forever, until you lose it," the best line GitHub has ever shipped.
Some users leaned into nostalgia, joking about listening to their repos on a Walkman or filing a request for punch cards and floppy disks instead.
The other side was not amused, and their complaints trace back to GitHub’s own reliability record of logging 257 incidents between May 2025 and April 2026, with 48 of them classified as major outages, largely driven by AI-generated commits and Actions that run overwhelming infrastructure that was not built for that...