September 24, 2026 · 5 min read
After GitHub Actions burned a month of minutes in two days, the gate moved to the workstation. A pre-push hook runs a quick tier on every push, every green run writes a record tagged with its tier and commit, and a merge guard refuses an…
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July 3, 2026 · 5 min read
You cannot out-staff a security team when you are the whole team. But the failures that actually end a solo operation are a short, known list, and each has a cheap defense you set up once. Here is the catastrophic floor I stood up in an…
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June 28, 2026 · 5 min read
GitHub Actions' default minute allowance is priced for a team that types at human speed. At agent velocity the bill breaks before the engineering does. Here is how a forced workaround, a local CI mirror plus local deploys, became the bet…
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