What’s happening? GitHub just announced changes to Actions pricing. Previously, GitHub Actions had a free control plane. That meant if you used GitHub Actions but ran jobs outside of GitHub-hosted runners, whether that’s on Blacksmith, on your own machines, or … Read more
Release December 16, 2025 • 1 minute read Table of Contents Menu. Currently selected: Deeper investment in the Actions self-hosted experience On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the … Read more
After putting together ecosyste-ms/package-manager-resolvers, I started wondering what dependency resolution algorithm GitHub Actions uses. When you write uses: actions/checkout@v4 in a workflow file, you’re declaring a dependency. GitHub resolves it, downloads it, and executes it. That’s package management. So I … Read more
Published Sat 29 Nov 2025. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went. ℹ️ Motivation Why am I getting out of GitHub? See the previous episode. Spoiler … Read more
It is insane how many failures we’ve been getting lately, especially related to actions. * jobs not being picked up * jobs not being able to be cancelled * jobs running but showing up as failed * jobs showing up … Read more
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Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Sep 22, 2025 Tags: programming, rant TL;DR: for a very long time, GitHub Actions lacked support for YAML anchors. This was a good thing. YAML anchors in … Read more
Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company’s AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code … Read more