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42 from 30 Mar 2024 to 21 Oct 2026
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2026 11

  1. Building the CI cloud: our Series CNewsOct 21, 2026
  2. How Blacksmith runs >10M jobs per dayEngineeringSep 18, 2026
  3. Does a coding agent need a face?ProductSep 10, 2026
  4. Code mode lost its first race. Then we gave it muscle memory | Blacksmith
  5. US west region outage due to facility cooling loss on August 13, 2026EngineeringAug 19, 2026
  6. Announcing Blacksmith’s Series B led by Peak XV PartnersNewsAug 12, 2026
  7. The physics of Docker build cachingEngineeringJul 31, 2026
  8. Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage againEngineeringJul 24, 2026
  9. Blacksmith outage on July 21, 2026EngineeringJul 22, 2026
  10. What is your CI job talking to?EngineeringJul 20, 2026
  11. Closed-loop development: how we shipped Mac runners in 3 weeksEngineeringApr 16, 2026

2025 12

  1. How Blacksmith survives ISP degradation with Tailscale ServicesEngineeringDec 18, 2025
  2. The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer freeNewsDec 16, 2025
  3. The two faces of tomorrow | Blacksmith
  4. How we SSH into GitHub ActionsProductSep 9, 2025
  5. Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fastProductJul 23, 2025
  6. How we built a logging platform for GitHub Actions with ClickHouseProductJul 2, 2025
  7. Why we chose not to look like every other company in Silicon Valley | Blacksmith
  8. How the economics of multitenancy work | Blacksmith
  9. Blacksmith Raises $3.5M led by GV and Y Combinator to Build a High-Performance CI Cloud. | Blacksmith
  10. You have 5 days before the new DockerHub limits f*ck you over | Blacksmith
  11. Launch: GitHub Actions Analytics | Blacksmith
  12. Best Practices for Managing Secrets in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith

2024 19

  1. How to reduce spend in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  2. Matrix Builds with GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  3. Deployments still suck, but maybe they don’t have to | Blacksmith
  4. Docker Architecture: The components and processes - Part 2 | Blacksmith
  5. Building Multi-Platform Docker Images for ARM64 in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  6. Blacksmith achieves SOC 2 Type 2 compliance | Blacksmith
  7. Docker Architecture: The components and processes - Part 1 | Blacksmith
  8. Understanding Multi-Stage Docker Builds | Blacksmith
  9. A Guide to Disk Space Management with Docker: How to Clear Your Cache | Blacksmith
  10. Stacked Diffs can be expensive: Why you should do it more | Blacksmith
  11. How to optimize your Dockerfile for faster Docker builds | Blacksmith
  12. Faster Docker builds using a remote BuildKit instance | Blacksmith
  13. The exodus from GitHub Actions to Buildkite | Blacksmith
  14. Blacksmith is SOC2 Type 1 compliant | Blacksmith
  15. How to run Jest tests faster in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  16. What it was like going through YC W24 | Blacksmith
  17. Push, Cache, Repeat: Amazon ECR as a remote Docker cache for GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  18. Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith
  19. Protect prod, cut costs: concurrency in GitHub Actions | Blacksmith