Your CI should be disposable

kept by eddie aug 18

The article argues CI should only schedule builds, delegating actual builds to local tools like Docker or Nix so workflows remain runnable even if CI services fail.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto is moving the project off GitHub due to frequent outages and declining service quality since Microsoft's acquisition.
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Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix
The author demonstrates four methods—exec, importNative, giant Nix file, and WASM—to embed SQLite queries in Nix, comparing their speed and resource usage.
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Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Package managers that use git as a database for registry data inevitably hit scaling limits, forcing migrations to HTTP-based or CDN-backed solutions.
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What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project ~ andrej acevski
Maintaining an open-source self-hosted kanban board involves relentless documentation, user support, scary database migrations, and careful scope management far beyond building the initial product.
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How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero
Cloudflare and Astro maintainers deployed isolated AI subagents in GitHub Actions to automatically reproduce, diagnose, and verify bugs, cutting open issues from over 200 to ~30 and aiming for zero.
also on GitHub Actions, #automation, #developer-tools