GitHub Actions is one of the most popular CI tools in use today. If you need or want to run it yourself, though, there are a lot of design choices to make and not a lot of guidance. The most popu...

This piece is going to take a look at what this feature is and a quick overview of how it works, then go through some key decisions you should think through as you set it up. A bunch of experience...

A devcontainer lets you use an arbitrary Docker container as a development environment - leveraging the reproducible, version-controlled, and disposable nature of containers for a consistent develo...

Even though git is one of the most common software programs used in development, I’m continually impressed both at how customizable it is and how often it isn’t customized at all! There are severa...

This post is slides + commentary from a talk I gave at Cloud Native Colorado on November 21st, 2022 about some of the weird ways you can blow up your cluster and your sanity once continuous integra...

An interesting problem came my way not too long ago about how to undo a code change when a job fails in GitHub Actions. Since this job is triggered on a commit, we’d have to use git revert to crea...

Continuing from part 1 and part 2, there’s a moment where it looks like it might be cheaper to run your own build farm. I’m not going to talk numbers here - at all. The price of hardware and powe...

Inspiration I started this site for a few reasons: I work at a weird and fun intersection of highly regulated, compliance-focused organizations and technology. It’s not uncommon for me to sea...

A common problem in moving to git is cleaning large files (like document files, multimedia, etc.) out of a repository. There’s a tool that’s designed to do exactly this called BFG Repo-Cleaner - i...

GitHub makes some assumptions about the container execution environment for Actions that aren’t always true for self-hosted environments. This is frustrating if you need or want to stay within one...