War Story: How a GitHub 2025.0 Repo Deletion Bug Lost My 5-Year-Old Portfolio I still remember the sinking feeling in my stomach on March 12, 2025, when I refreshed my GitHub profile and saw my-portfolio – the repo that held 5 years of my career, every side project, client deliverable, and open-source contribution I’d made since 2020 – was gone. The Setup: 5 Years of Work, One Repo My portfolio repo was more than a collection of code. It had 1,247 commits spanning 5 years: early React experiments, paid client projects I’d used to land freelance work, documentation for open-source tools I maintained, and even draft blog posts I’d never published. I’d pinned it to the top of my GitHub profile, updated it weekly, and relied on it for every job application and client pitch. I’d even skipped local clones for months, trusting GitHub’s redundancy to keep my work safe.…