GitHub Actions: The Stuff Nobody Tells You

GitHub Actions: The Stuff Nobody Tells You I work at GitHub. I use Actions every day. I've also debugged YAML at 2am, watched the log viewer eat my browser, and pushed a bunch of commits in a row just to figure out why a conditional wasn't evaluating correctly. I'm not here to tell you Actions is perfect. It's not. The log viewer has made grown engineers question their career choices. The YAML expression syntax has a learning curve that feels more like a learning cliff. The push-wait-fail-repeat