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A self-hosted runner, and what it is allowed to reach

Deep diveMay 26, 202010 min read

The hosted runner cannot reach the private network, which is the whole problem — and a runner inside it is a machine running other people’s code.

An SLO is a number somebody agreed to

Deep diveMay 20, 202014 min read

Everyone wanted the site to be fast and nobody could say what fast meant. An indicator, an objective and a window — and the error budget is what…

Scanning history for a leaked key, and what to do next

NoteMay 12, 20202 min read

A secret committed and then removed is still in the history, and the history is on every clone, every fork and every CI cache. Assuming the secret is…

A flaky test quarantine, and the ticket that goes with it

NoteMarch 24, 20202 min read

A test that fails one run in twenty trains the team to re-run the pipeline, and once that habit exists a real failure is re-run too. Quarantining without…

Contract tests that live in the repository

Deep diveMarch 3, 202010 min read

The collection lived in one person’s account, which is not version control. An endpoint changed and the client team found out from an error.

Moving a pipeline to a runner you do not own

Deep diveFebruary 27, 202010 min read

The CI server was a pet and the pipeline was a shell script nobody could read. A runner that assumes nothing is the point, and the cache is…

PHPUnit 9 and the assertions that finally went

Deep diveFebruary 25, 20209 min read

What 8 deprecated, 9 removes, and the deadline was a year. Rector does the renames; the one it cannot decide is the one that changed behaviour.

buildx, and an image for two architectures

NoteFebruary 20, 20202 min read

Apple Silicon arrived in November and a team suddenly has two architectures, which means an image built on a laptop may not run on the server. The arm64…

Newman runs the collection in CI, which is the point

NoteFebruary 19, 20201 min read

A manual test is a memory, and memories are per person. The same collection run by a machine on every push is a test. The –env-var override is…

Composite actions, before reusable workflows existed

NoteFebruary 6, 20202 min read

Five workflows repeating the same eight setup steps is five places to update, and reusable workflows do not exist yet — a composite action is what does. shell:…