There are many tools and techniques like this. Not a nock against this tool, jus...

embedding-shape · 2026-01-12T15:41:48 1768232508

> Is there no better way, GitHub?

CircleCI solved this anno 2011, with "Rebuild with SSH". Microsoft asleep at the wheel as usual, not sure it's unexpected at this point.

bathtub365 · 2026-01-12T16:26:07 1768235167

The more you have to rerun your actions to debug them, the more money Microsoft makes. They aren’t incentivized to save you time.

embedding-shape · 2026-01-12T16:51:29 1768236689

Completely bonkers that people, companies and organizations just swallow this, bait and all.

esafak · 2026-01-12T16:54:44 1768236884

Free hosting, CI minutes, and an ecosystem.

embedding-shape · 2026-01-12T16:59:51 1768237191

Commit and push to test small incremental changes, self-hosted runners' time still count towards CI minutes, and an ecosystem hellbent on presenting security holes as new features. I'm a bit unimpressed :)

esafak · 2026-01-12T16:54:05 1768236845

Dagger. Workflows that run anywhere, including locally.

Storment33 · 2026-01-12T20:39:31 1768250371

I've seen dagger pipelines they're horrendous. Just have GitHub Actions call out to a task runner like Make/Taskfile etc and use an environment manager Mise or Nix to install all the tools.

esafak · 2026-01-12T21:46:37 1768254397

I think that is a good pattern too, though I would replace the make/taskfile step with something bazel-like.

Dagger used to be more declarative with CUE, but demand was not strong enough.