Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
by sgarland on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:32PM
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> I'm kinda used to it now, but I'm not convinced it's any better.
It’s demonstrably worse.
> The base knowledge of POSIX/Linux/whatever was almost completely useless.
Guarantee you, 99% of the engineering team there doesn’t have that base knowledge to start with, because of:
> There are so many layers of abstraction now that I'm not sure anybody truly understands it all.
Everything is constantly on fire, because everything is a house of cards made up of a collection of XaaS, all of which are themselves houses of cards written by people similarly clueless about how computers actually operate.
It’s demonstrably worse.
> The base knowledge of POSIX/Linux/whatever was almost completely useless.
Guarantee you, 99% of the engineering team there doesn’t have that base knowledge to start with, because of:
> There are so many layers of abstraction now that I'm not sure anybody truly understands it all.
Everything is constantly on fire, because everything is a house of cards made up of a collection of XaaS, all of which are themselves houses of cards written by people similarly clueless about how computers actually operate.
I hate all of it.