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Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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My first time using GH Actions was last week. GH was so flaky that pulling a submodule failed >50% of the time. I had to write a script to retry pulling the submodule in a loop.

I've done some hacky shit in CI scripts, but none made me more mad than that one.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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My action failed with "Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/heads/master: HttpError: Sorry. Your account was suspended" Which certainly made me shit myself, briefly.

A brownout redefined.

ShitHub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGeOee7x5lY

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

It's funny, when we were acquired they started moving us to Github actions but it seems that maybe we should stay on our old crusty self-hosted Jenkins setup...

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, yes. A lot more repos, commits, and most importantly huge PRs. That makes sense. Thank you!

No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.

Their competition doesn't have nearly the same scale of traffic because they don't have nearly the same scale of users or network effects.

Think critically.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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What problem is github solving that has led it to become critical infrastructure for so many? Is it that everyone is remote and VPNs are too much of a hassle to give everyone access to a build server? Is the serving as the authoritative auth for development services? Does it provide better compliance reporting? It just isn't apparent to me what github offers that you can't get elsewhere with at the same cost and effo…

It’s well integrated into massively underpriced agentic coding (and noncoding) workflows, I doubt there’s much more reason than that. The hip thing to do now is hold all your docs in github instead of notion so your agent can traverse them locally

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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The last two projects I built I did the CI/CD manually with a small win32 service that polls git and builds+deploys the main service locally. It's barely 200 lines of code. Not much to go wrong. "dotnet publish" is not difficult to wrap. The latest language models have enabled this sort of thing for me. I can integrate a mini Jenkins into every project within a 5-10 minute prompting session. This sort of code isn't h…

That works for relatively simple scenarios. When you have to add deploying sql changes or something having to update something in the cloud, you'd have to include a lot more plumbing.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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What problem is github solving that has led it to become critical infrastructure for so many? Is it that everyone is remote and VPNs are too much of a hassle to give everyone access to a build server? Is the serving as the authoritative auth for development services? Does it provide better compliance reporting? It just isn't apparent to me what github offers that you can't get elsewhere with at the same cost and effo…

GitHub solved the original "code collaboration" problem, and now it's a default easy way to outsource repo management. It also has the most integrations. A lot of companies grew up using GitHub. GitHub was, once upon a time, quite stable. Things have changed: more features, more usage, and automated agents.

I know what it does, but why is it such a problem that Actions is down? I think you did kind of answer it: "A lot of companies grew up using GitHub," i.e., they are using it as infrastructure by default, not because it does something that otherwise can't be done.
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