one step closer to being able to never touch my mouse again

Gotta love Blacksmith. Migrated Supabase repo with one click migration, no code changes needed except for the runner tags, immediate 45% improvement in build times while not costing more. What else would you want

Today, we’re launching an SSH feature for GitHub Actions. Here’s how we built it: - iptables to route network traffic to the right VM - CoreDNS and Redis plugin to have real-time DNS record updates - Active SSH sessions detection to give users a grace period For the full

A workflow that has been highly effective in debugging flaky tests or infra problems in our CI is prompting Claude Code to run diagnostics inside the runner over SSH - huge unlock!

We’ve raised our $10M Series A, led by Google Ventures. Meet Blacksmith.

Congrats to Blacksmith on their $10M Series A! More than 12,000 devs across 800+ companies rely on Blacksmith for their CI. Customers have run over 1 billion vCPU-minutes on their infra, the equivalent of 2000 years of nonstop compute time. blacksmith.sh/blog/tomorrow

Best launch video we've seen in awhile IMO. Still fun to watch. But actually says what the product does, how it does, and why that's useful

lock the fuck in

ICYMI: @UseBlacksmith went from seed to Series A in just a few months. Hear co-founder Aayush Shah chat with Erik Nordlander about the need for Blacksmith's cloud platform, which provides developers with the fastest way to run their GitHub Actions.

What’s the point in generating code 100x faster using AI, when compiling and testing it still takes an hour? Proud to have @gvteam lead Blacksmith’s Series A as they rethink CI. See my full conversation with co-founder Aayush Shah: gv.com/news/ai-blacks…

.Blacksmith is building the hyperscaler for CI workloads of today and tomorrow. I sat down with Erik Nordlander from GV last week to go in depth on all the decisions that have gotten us to this point:

What does Blacksmith do? How does it work? Why did we throw out AWS and Docker and build our own infra stack from scratch? Aayush Shah sat down with Erik Nordlander, General Partner at Google Ventures, to discuss the details under the hood of Blacksmith.

I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for 16 years

🐋 What do Beluga whales and Kubernetes have in common? Come find out on Nov 12. Join The New Stack, Blacksmith, Edera, Minimus, @Syntasso, and Tailscale for Night at the Aquarium — an exclusive, after-hours reception during #KubeCon. 🔗 RSVP now →

We partnered with a few startups to rent out the largest aquarium in the United States just for KubeCon.

NEW HIRE: Today we’re excited to announce that Connor Mulholland has joined Blacksmith as our first Solutions Engineer. Connor brings years of experience and is joining to ensure that as we scale, our level of support will only continue to improve. Outside of software, he

We have some fresh Blacksmith swag in the house. Let's ignore what's on the whiteboard back there.

After months of being in beta our swag is now GA, some reviews heard in the wild: "this tshirt feels more like a sweatshirt, wow" "the quality of this swag is elite, how much did you spend on it?" "weekend craft project will be to Blacksmith my hydro-flask with stickers"

Switching PGlite to Blacksmith cut our build times in half.

Today at Blacksmith, we’re launching Windows runners in public beta. This was one of our most requested products from customers and now you can bring all the benefits of Blacksmith to your Windows jobs: - Speed: 2x faster CI using the same gaming-grade CPUs that powers our