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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!

I really admire projects that put their goal in their name. For example, lastpass. It's a great way of staying focused. I once built a project called "one click deploys" to automate a manual deployment. The name stopped us adding unnecessary clickthroughts on big systems.

Evaluate snippets of Clojure with the bindings set up as if you'd called the function. This neat idea was proposed in https://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/6/5/repl-debugging-no-stacktrace-required and https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/scope-capture builds tooling to automate it!