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A runner that ran out of disk halfway through a build

NoteApril 19, 20242 min read

A hosted runner has about fourteen gigabytes free, and a Docker build with a large cache uses all of it without saying so. The preinstalled toolchains for languages…

terraform test, on a module with no tests

NoteMarch 27, 20242 min read

A module used by four environments and verified by applying it and looking at the console. The tagging assertion is the one that earns its place immediately, because…

The registry we ran ourselves for three weeks

Deep diveMarch 27, 202410 min read

A rate limit hit at 09:00 every weekday, a pipeline failing intermittently for two months, and the wrong one of three options tried first.

A coverage driver change that broke one CI image

NoteMarch 20, 20241 min read

PHPUnit 11 dropping support for one coverage driver, on a CI image that had it and not the other. The upgrade forced a change that was overdue for…

A design token pipeline that outlived its designer

Deep diveMarch 20, 202410 min read

A token pipeline built in 2022 and the person who understood it has left. A colour change that took three days and touched five files.

Pulling through a cache instead of authenticating

NoteMarch 19, 20242 min read

A registry rate limit hit every weekday at nine, and three options of which the cheapest was not the one we tried first. A mirror is transparent —…

A framework upgrade that was mostly deleting

Deep diveMarch 14, 20249 min read

Laravel 11 in March, a skeleton with four fewer directories, and an application still carrying 2019’s structure.

A matrix that was seven jobs to test one thing

NoteMarch 5, 20242 min read

A matrix of PHP versions crossed with dependency strategies, producing seven jobs, six of which tested a combination nobody runs. A full cross product tests combinations that no…

PHPUnit 11, and a suite that had already been migrated

Deep diveFebruary 29, 20249 min read

11.0 in February, a year after the 10.0 migration did the hard part, and eleven deprecations that were all things 10 had warned about.

Docker 25, and the build cache backend I finally read about

NoteFebruary 23, 20241 min read

Cache mounts are local to the builder, which on a hosted CI runner means they do nothing at all. A registry cache backend moves the layer cache off…