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GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

Ian Duncan

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Elara Voss fucked my wife Feb 5

this might be an ad for BuildKite which i have not tried and do not endorse, but pretty much anything sucks less than GitHub Actions

triple especially if you're an iOS dev; Microsoft broke our builders numerous times at my last job, no warning, no cutover date, just soft rollout of stuff with the wrong Xcode, SDKs, simulators, 3rd-party support gunk, etc.

i was trying to convince my boss to buy a pair of M4 Minis and put them on the spare desk right up until i quit

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@vyr There is a reason I'm a Jenkins shop. I _really_ do not want to be a Jenkins shop. But every CI system out there is bought on something that's a no-go for me.