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Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs. I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!

Are there any package managers that treat changelogs as a first class concept? I end up looking for a CHANGELOG.md or a CHANGES.txt in the source code repository every time. The lack of standard prevents package hosting services being able to show changes.

Self hosting is really nifty, but it's an additional cognitive burden. For example, I can run difftastic on its own history. I use plain git-diff just as often. My best improvements have come from using it in other codebases. It lets me think about one thing at a time