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featherless

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About featherless

Software designer.

http://JeffVerkoeyen.com/

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    Omg the effect gives me physical jitters

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    I had steered away for a long while thinking it was subpar to GitHub, but it's really come a long way. Especially running it on a local network it's noticeably faster in every way …

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    I migrated my entire workflow onto a personal GitLab instance after the whole "pay a fee to bring your own bags to the grocery store" GitHub Actions pricing shenanigans earlier thi…

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    Comment #46878648

    I got openclaw to compete Qwen3-Coder-Next vs Minimax M2.1 simultaneously on my Mac Studio 512GB: https://clutch-assistant.github.io/model-comparison-report/

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    Comment #46542812

    Except most of those services don't have at-home equivalents that you can increasingly run on your own hardware.

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    Comment #46296353

    It would be silly to write a new one today. Plenty of open source + indy options to invest into instead. For scheduled work, cron + a log sink is fine, and for pull request CI ther…

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    Comment #46295711

    Charging people to maintain a row in a database by the minute is top-tier, I agree.

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    Comment #46295191

    Do you feel that orchestration runs on a per-minute basis?

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    This is not investment in CI/CD. I already did that, by buying and investing in my own hardware, my own workflows, my own caching solution. This is like if Dropbox started charging…

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    Comment #46294003

    No. It is not worth a time-scaled cost each month for them to start a job on my machines and store a few megabytes of log files. I'd happily pay a fixed monthly fee for this servic…

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    Comment #46293751

    Won't those other systems create a cost that is metered in terms of run-time?

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    As a solo Founder who recently invested in self-hosted build infrastructure because my company runs ~70,000 minutes/month, this change is going to add an extra $140/month for hardw…

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    Just wrote about my approach yesterday: https://jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2025/12/15/SlotWarmedCaching/ tl;dr uses a local slot-based cache that is pre-warmed after every merge to mai…

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    I found that implementing a local cache on the runners has been helpful. Ingress/egress on local network is hella slow, especially when each build has ~10-20GB of artifacts to mana…

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    I run a local Valhalla build cluster to power the https://sidecar.clutch.engineering routing engine. The cluster runs daily and takes a significant amount of wall-clock time to bui…

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    There's absolutely no way that the cost scales with the usage of my own hardware. I cannot fathom this change in any way or form. Livid.

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    Genuinely curious about this as well. It's a major bummer that self-hosted infra can't be used to validate GitHub Pull Requests now; basically means I'll have to move my entire wor…

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    Comment #46291975

    This is absolutely bananas; for my own CI workflow I'll have to pay $140+/month now just to run my own hardware.

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    Comment #45699316

    Does this result in the Swift code being compiled or transpiled?

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    Comment #45657904

    AI is an amphetamine.