Github Not-So-Reusable Actions

Github Actions is a “BYOBE” (Bring Your Own Bloody Everything) offering that provides basic CI with surprisingly convoluted configuration to Github. The product as a whole is an exercise in frustration, one of the worst parts is the lack of reusability and the complexity required to achieve it. Github’s concept of reusable workflows on Github Actions is clearly a cobbled together afterthought. ...

November 6, 2022 · 3 min · 615 words · Sam McLeod

YAML Anchors and Aliases

The YAML Spec defined a simple way to reuse values in YAML documents by means of Anchors and Aliases. ...

November 6, 2022 · 2 min · 305 words · Sam McLeod