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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/fasterthanlime/. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Follow me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime Support me on Patreon or GitHub: https://fasterthanli.me/donate (Reference continue below) Contents 00:00 Sponsor disclaimer 00:02 Intro 00:24 Part 1: A Short (And Mostly Wrong) History of Personal Computing 01:37 Part 2: Life before GitHub 05:06 Part 3: The Toyota Way 06:49 Part 4: The Heist 09:11 Sponsored segment 10:17 Part 5: A Completely Unsolicited (And Frankly Quite Rude) Review Of The GitHub Actions Code 13:04 Part 6: GitHub Actions' Identity Crisis 16:22 Part 7: Maybe This Is More Complicated Than We Thought 21:45 Part 8: The Things I Cannot Change 25:29 Thanks References: Purple Motion - Second Reality (remastered) by LenweSaralonde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL5vb3D-8_I Samantha Fox Strip Poker https://www.lemon64.com/game/samantha-fox-strip-poker Version Management Tools: CVS to BK in the Linux Kernel https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/shaikhcornford.pdf CVS, Linus, and us https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9602/0314.html Wikipedia: Home computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer Bryan O’ Sullivan, via Internet Archive, “Why I am no longer working at Mercurial” https://web.archive.org/web/20051210154818/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.devel/3481 Richard M. Stallman, “The spirit of the BitKeeper license is the spirit of the whip hand” https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=103454948625224&w=2 Linus Torvalds, “How about doing something about it?” https://lwn.net/2002/0425/a/ideology-sucks.php3 Wikipedia: Diff, 1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff Wikipedia: Concurrent Versions System, 1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System The Agile Manifesto: History https://agilemanifesto.org/history.html Wikipedia: Lean software development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development Wikipedia: Lean manufacturing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing Infuse: Fusing Integration Test Management with Change Management https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1989.65147 Grady Booch, Object Solutions (1996) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Object_Solutions/vlMZAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=continuous%20integration&dq=object%20solutions&printsec=frontcover Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5B (2018) https://news.microsoft.com/announcement/microsoft-acquires-github/ GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us https://github.blog/2018-10-17-action-demos/ Compare and contrast GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125453/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/devops-for-aspnet-developers/actions-vs-pipelines Action-tmate (SSH into running jobs): https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate Act (run actions locally): https://github.com/nektos/act GitHub Actions Runner node.js logic: https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/9e3e57ff90c089641a3a5833c2211841da1a37f8/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/StepHost.cs#L156-L174 I Want Off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride (2020): https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride Specify check suite when creating a checkrun: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/24616 USENIX 2023, ARGUS: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/muralee Security Hardening for GitHub Actions https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-hardening-for-github-actions Jazz Emu’s “Digital Spool” album on Bandcamp: https://jazzemu.bandcamp.com/album/digital-spool

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