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Around 11am BST everything I have in LON1 across all DO services (droplets, Kubernetes, App Platform) disappeared for about 10 minutes.

It resolved but is now showing intermittent issues an hour later.

It's the first DigitalOcean incident in memory that has caused me any problems though.

Horrid, horrid, horrid

Well that’s the end of Figma then. It was fantastic while it lasted.

GitLab.

Another vote for Postmark. It works and it's a paid but relatively affordable service - this is a good thing in this area, as it keeps the spammers out, and means you have real human support. I've not had a problem yet. Same can't be said for SendGrid which is used on some client projects but has sporadic deliverability issues at times.

They say they want us to worry less.

This is now making me worry about what I do next. Will it be possible to revert this madness or is it really time to abandon Firefox?

I know that in the big picture it’s small, but a good part of why the Firefox is the UI. In compact mode, with dark theme, on Linux, Firefox is - for me - the ultimate browser UI that just gets out of my way.

This new “modern” look is oversized, distracting and wastes space. Nobody’s asked for it and the blog post wording really sounds like trying to justify change for the sake of it.

Sad times. What has happened to Mozilla?

Am I making too much of it? Maybe, but it’s certainly not making me “worry less”. It’s filling me with dread. And from the other responses here and on Reddit, it’s clear Mozilla is out-of-touch with it’s biggest users.

I don't see how anyone can give you useful information without knowing more about the pipeline and the projects, and as everyone's pipelines/projects are going to work differently (I do web dev work, so pipelines are relatively simple, I can imagine that a game dev team creating Windows/Mac/Linux builds might have multi-hour pipelines though).

Anyway as the question is "How Long Is Your CI Process", here we go!

I have two main types of pipelines, both running on a self-hosted GitLab instance which runs on an 8th-gen i3 Intel NUC. No project is particularly massive.

1. PHP Projects. Run PHPStan + unit tests on each branch. Most projects take 1-5 mins. On master, run PHPStan + unit tests, build a Docker image, and use Helm to deploy to managed Kubernetes on DigitalOcean. This takes 5-10 mins.

2. React Projects, again not massively huge, but sizable. Biggest time is to run ESLint on every branch. About 5 mins (due to very poor caching which I keep meaning to fix). On master, run ESLint, create a Docker image, and deploy to managed Kubernetes. 5-10 mins.

There are opportunities to improve this by fixing/optimising caching. Overall I'm reasonably happy with the pipeline performance. I'm also sure that upgrading the hardware would make a big difference, probably more so than fixing the caching; an i3 isn't really ideal but this machine does well overall for my small team.

The feature releases don’t show up in GitLab’s RSS now... why not? Can’t find any way to subscribe to them.

13.9 didn’t appear and I had to go looking. 13.10 hasn’t either. Blog “news” posts, unfiltered and patch releases all show up in RSS... why aren’t the monthly releases being included anymore?

That's awful. This is one of the reasons I use Firefox, because its UI is customisable and not massive.

Mozilla seems to be intent on taking away the power user features. I didn't even know this redesign was coming, but those screenshots look horrendous. Why are the tabs "floating" as giant blobs? The current design looks much more cohesive and less distracting.

Sad to see Firefox succumb to the "must design everything every few years" mentality.