Twitter is starting to feel like X. Day to day I still think of it as Twitter, but over the last week or so I've noticed that the amount of people on podcasts using the name X, without going through some kind of explanation, has reached a new level. I wouldn't say it is totally there yet, but it's slowly starting to feel like folks are more comfortable with the new name. #
2023/09/28 #
Today’s links:
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earthly/earthly - 🌍 "Earthly is a build automation tool for the container era. It allows you to execute all your builds in containers. This makes them self-contained, repeatable, portable and parallel. You can use Earthly to create Docker images and artifacts (e.g., binaries, packages, arbitrary files)." - "It can run on top of popular CI systems like Jenkins, Circle, GitHub Actions." github.com #
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Running jobs in a container - It's good to know it's possible to run custom containers. I have wanted to do that in order to speed up workfkow runs. It's still not totally clear to me from these examples where the workflow steps are defined though. What's the point in specifying a container if you don't also specify workflow steps? Maybe these aren't a complete example? Confusing. docs.github.com #
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nektos/act - Gives you the ability to run your workflows locally. Runs off of the workflows defined in
.github/workflowsand uses docker images. Sounds cool though I've read some reports on HN that it doesn't always work very well. It does seem a bit complex. Sometimes it ain't worth all the extra effort. Linking to it here for completeness, as I've seen it mentioned many times. github.com #