#github-actions

Your GitHub Actions Cron Job Can Disappear Without Failing

Learn how to make GitHub Actions scheduled workflows more reliable with automated QA, Slack reporting, duplicate prevention, and watchdog monitoring.

Hacker Noon · EN

Speeding Up Checkout in a Fast-Growing Monorepo with Blacksmith

We swapped actions/checkout for Blacksmith's cached checkout across our GitHub Actions. Mean checkout time dropped from 69s to 20s, reclaiming ~33 hours of runner time each weekday.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

Enforcing Best Practices with Jev as a Linter

Agents write most of our code now, and they respond to checks far more reliably than to documents. I turned a best practice written in plain English into a lint rule with Jev and Oxlint, annotated inline in GitHub pull requests.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN

The Bun Dependabot Gap: Dependabot Alerts Don't See bun.lock

GitHub's dependency graph doesn't read bun.lock yet, so in Bun projects Dependabot alerts only cover what's written in package.json, and never a transitive dependency. Here's how to check if you're affected, and how I closed the gap with a GitHub Action.

Nicolas Charpentier's Blog · EN