This story alone was enough to cause me to abandon GitHub actions permanently. I’d have easily gotten bitten by that had I expanded CI to the extent that these gigantic companies are using it.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Sounds about right.
I'm using GitHub actions at work because this place is extremely dysfunctional, and I can just add GitHub actions without it being a whole "research spike planning meeting impact analysis" six week journey.
I took it from "there are absolutely no checks and Bob broke the environment because he pushed up a change that's just invalid syntax" to... well, I couldn't make it block the build on failures but at least now when Bob breaks it again I can point to the big red X and ask why he merged with an error.
Well, I'm in that Nix shop category. For example, I run tests for my OSS project using lots of Python versions. There's no need to use a Github Actions matrix for that - Nix does it more efficiently. Doesn't even require containers or VMs. And the whole setup runs exactly the same locally, on Github Actions, or on Garnix. (But Garnix has better Nix caching than other CI runners, so that's what I use.)
TLDR; people are idiots. Dependencies are stealing your data. Write your own CI and stop being a lazy fuck.
Im not sure about the CI solution they are recommending, but I do agree there are some sharp edges to GH Actions. Its not the greatest at logs and had hidden issues all over the place.