Local-First GitHub Actions Strategy
If you’ve spent any significant time with GitHub Actions (GHA), you know the drill: it can be a massive time-saver, but when things go wrong, the development loop is painfully slow. Committing, pushing, waiting for the run to fail, and then repeating… it’s a productivity killer. Over time, I’ve refined a strategy that cuts this frustrating cycle short. My philosophy is simple: Avoid any GitHub Actions feature that isn’t available or easy to replicate locally.