About this episode

The episode discusses CI innovations, subscription migration, and various tech topics with a humorous detour.

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a very Remote Ruby style detour through Costco, Blue Apron, leftovers, Blackstone grills, and cast iron pans. Then, Andrew explains his Stripe subscription migration scare and major GitHub Actions workflow improvements that sped up Podia’s CI by 20–30%. They dive into Apple’s new on-device AI tooling, container alternatives on macOS, and the state of conferences, GitHub, AI infrastructure costs, solar power, and even crows attacki...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Topics covered

• CI improvements
• GitHub Actions
• AI tooling
• container alternatives
• conferences
• solar power

Keywords

• CI
• GitHub Actions
• Stripe
• AI
• conferences
• solar power
• container alternatives

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stripe, GitHub, Podia, Apple, Blue Apron

Products: Blackstone grills, cast iron pans, AI tooling, solar power

Places: Costco

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