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New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:15:05 +0000

oh that makes sense. I thought the OP was suggesting running CI locally instead of a workflow on remote runners

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:09:08 +0000

a display of great wisdom, nice

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:18:45 +0000

top tip: make a repo in your org for pushing all these nonsense changes to, test out your workflows with a dummy package being published to the repo, work out all the weird edge cases/underdocumented features of Actions

once you're done, make the actual changes in your real repo. I call the test repo 'pincushion'

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:16:47 +0000

> You can run all your CI locally

if you can, you don't need CI. we can't (too slow, needs an audit trail)

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:09:50 +0000

I don't think you're responsible for anything more than your own comments.

I added some context that contradicts your assumption that the increased fees were to cover hosting/storage/scheduling costs.

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:08:13 +0000

> Having your commits refer ticket ID from system that no longer exists is royal PITA

just rewrite the short links in your front-end to point to the migrated issues/PRs. write a redirect rule for each migrated issue/PR, easy

hard-coded links in commit messages are annoying, you can redirect in the front-end too but locally you'd have to smudge/clean them on local checkout/commit

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:56:03 +0000

we don't need it. we need to run our CI jobs on resources we manage ourselves, and GitHub have started charging per-minute for it. apples and cannonballs

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:49:52 +0000

> If you think that's easy

I think it's cheap to maintain. let me know how many devs you have, how many runs you do, and how many tests (by suite) you have, and I can do you up a quote for hosting some Allure reports. can spread the up-front costs over the 3-year monthly commitment if it helps

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:45:45 +0000

I'm seeing wonky webhook deliveries for Actions service events, like dropping them completely, while other webhooks work just fine. I struggle to see what else could be responsible for that behaviour. it has to be the case that the Actions service emits events that trigger webhook deliveries & sometimes it messes them up.

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:48:32 +0000

no, I'd cut the monthly seat cost and grow my user base to include more low-volume devs

but realistically, publishing a web page is practically free. you could be sending 100x as much data and I would still be laughing all the way to the bank

New comment by falsedan in "Show HN: Gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:34:36 +0000

https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/pinact

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:01:47 +0000

I don't want to shit on the Code to Cloud team but they act a lot like an internal infrastructure team when they're a product team with paying customers

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:00:12 +0000

I think you could learn a lot about the other use cases if you asked some genuine questions and listened with intent

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:58:06 +0000

it's not the runners, it's the orchestration service that's the problem

been working to move all our workflows to self hosted, on demand ephemeral runners. was severely delayed to find out how slipshod the Actions Runner Service was, and had to redesign to handle out-of-order or plain missing webhook events. jobs would start running before a workflow_job event would be delivered

we've got it now that we can detect a GitHub Actions outage and let them know by opening a support ticket, before the status page updates

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:47:10 +0000

if you were paying me a monthly license fee for each developer working on your repos, I'd probably consider it

New comment by falsedan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

falsedan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:45:51 +0000

they charge you for artifacts and logs separately, already

New comment by falsedan in "A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies"

falsedan — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:47:49 +0000

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Or is it the snarky one, because I’m 100% genuine

New comment by falsedan in "A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies"

falsedan — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:33:10 +0000

look, I get that you're not used to being called out on being hopelessly wrong. rephrasing the statement to be an empty tautology so you can be right is a waste of both of our times and only serves to protect your ego

New comment by falsedan in "Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe"

falsedan — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:25:18 +0000

Yeah, if government regulations loosened to allow easier access to riskier investments by inexperienced investors or predatory VCs, there would be a lot more stock-based renumeration. Who cares about paying tax on the income generated by the difference between strike & fair market value if the grant also comes with a cash bonus exactly equal to the tax burden (and its income tax)?

EU banks have massive IT organisations and budgets so can afford to pay through the nose for contractor day rates. That's the ticket for frontline grunt wealth, and also the source of a lot of the risk-adverse 'bankist' mindset in a lot of experienced tech workers.

New comment by falsedan in "A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies"

falsedan — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:14:37 +0000

uh HN is not the 'business' of YC. get back to work