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Re:Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues by michaelbuckbee on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:56AM (#50363820)
+1 for Blacksmith. You need to have a Github org to use it as it won't work on personal accounts, but it feels like a magic want that just makes runners 2x as fast.

I have it for all my stuff (dozens of repos and hundreds of PRs/builds per week) and it's only once in the last year that I've exceeded the free resource levels. I don't know if it's just extra capacity or they're burning VC dollars in the hopes of inspiring posts like this, but either way I feel like I'm taking advantage of them at this point.

Re:Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues by booi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:28PM (#50372376)
But doesn't Blacksmith piggy back off of the Github Actions control plane? Outages will just spread to Blacksmith