2026/06/13 #

Github storage usage update

Quick update on the Github Actions storage issue I ran into last month. To summarize Github blocked me because it claimed I went over my Actions storage quota. I contacted their support and they were not able to answer my very basic and polite questions, instead sending me pre-written articles that didn‘t fit my situation very well imho. They then stopped replying to me. Eventually the quota got reset with the new billing cycle.

We are 1/3 of the way through the current month‘s billing cycle. I have written four days worth of posts so far this month. Last month in total I had written 13 days of posts when I went over my quota, leading to the suspension. So you would expect that since my publishing workflow uses up the exact same amount of storage every day, that I would be 1/3 of the way through my quota, right?

Well I just checked on the billing page, and I have used up 0 GB of the 0.5 GB included free Actions storage this month. I haven‘t made any changes to how the site builds. It‘s the exact same actions that build the site. Haven‘t changed them for many many months.

Github I tried really hard to figure out your complicated Actions storage quota system. It makes no sense to me. #

Yesterday‘s refactor worked

The deployment of the refactor I mentioned yesterday went very smoothly. The test post and bunch of links I had gathered yesterday, all got picked up by the automated publishing tool, got turned into individual PRs, got put through a batch review process and got released in the early hours this morning.Seems like everything is running as expected.

Today I decided to overhaul the way the system is processing incoming webhooks. The way it was doing things was working but the big refactor exposed some cruft in that part of the code, so I figured out a better way to do things that fits in well with the new architecture, and got it all working, and tested. Just pushed that out earlier, all tests are passing and smoke testing in staging went fine, so no reason to think there will be any issues. #

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