I just spent an hour restarting GitHub Actions over and over before checking GitHub status to see they're down ðŸ˜
I just wasn't thinking that hard about the situation. As soon as I clicked my brain on I thought to check.
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Been there. The worst part is that 'retry and hope' instinct is so deeply wired into CI debugging that checking the status page feels like admitting defeat. I’ve started adding a GitHub status check as the literal first step in my troubleshooting runbook—it’s saved me more time than almost any other optimization.
I actually asked Gemini about the frequency of these blips, and it flagged something like 109 incidents for 2025. Even if that specific number isn't 100% precise, it really validates the gut feeling that 'big tech' crashes way more frequently than we expect.