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Re:GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams by harikb on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:48PM (#46909264)
Ian Duncan, I was imagining you on a stage delivering this as a standup comedy show on Netflix.

My pet peeve with Github Actions was that if I want to do simple things like make a "release", I have to Google for and install packages from internet randos. Yes, it is possible this rando1234 is a founding github employee and it is all safe. But why does something so basic need external JS? packages?

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Re:GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams by computerfriend on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:04AM (#46909341)
Yeah, their "standard library" so to speak (basically everything under the actions org) is lacking. But for this specifically, you can use the gh CLI.
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Re:GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams by Storment33 on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:26AM (#46913223)
This is what I done, GitHub Actions is basically a command line as a service for my projects. It does nothing but checkout the code, means I can do all the releasing, artefact uploading, compiling & testing etc locally.
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