Blacksmith is 10/10 btw

Blacksmith is a masterclass getting you to the WOW factor ASAP 🤯 Took me a total of 30 seconds to get me to half my frontend build time!

We're growing the engineering team and are glad to welcome Steve! His references consistently described him as among the top 10% of C++ programmers. We’re all in for a fun ride.

We value design a lot, which is why we’re excited to welcome Gracie as our first Product Designer. Gracie was poached from Datadog, is a Waterloo alumna, and spends her free time drawing, biking, and volunteering at her local community garden.

Luke Graphite up to you! we see folks do a ton of different things here. it depends on what you are optimizing for. our team still runs CI on every PR (but we rely on Turborepo for minimizing unnecessary work and Blacksmith to cut costs)

just bolted Blacksmith onto a repo, took 60 seconds, and runs dropped from 6 min to 2 min. runs are also 2-3x cheaper. crazy. love it so far!

🐋 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: Elton Leong is the latest addition to our engineering team in NYC. He was poached from Webflow, and when asked for a fun fact for this post, he went with, “My favorite carb is rice, and my favorite game is League of Legends.”

tried Blacksmith after Theo - t3.gg’s ad read - replaced a new GitHub Actions CD runner i'm working on and got a 2x speed-up 🔥 🐢 47 min (and timed out) → 🏎 22 min. didn't even have to do anything, just created an account and clicked 2 buttons

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

Switched to using Blacksmith for our GitHub Actions builds a week ago. Avg build time: 5m 27s → 3m 42s 🤯 Onboarding was insanely smooth and their migration assistant made it effortless, easy plug n play. Rarely see dev tools with this kind of time to value + UX 🔥

NEW HIRE: Courtney McDermid is the latest addition to our NYC team and our first Executive Assistant. She joins us from Superblocks and is notably a purveyor of delicious snacks, which she admits to using to bribe our engineers.

Underwater meets #Kubernetes! 🤝 When the lights go down, the aquarium comes alive. Join The New Stack + friends (Blacksmith, Edera, Minimus, @Syntasso, Tailscale) for Night at the Aquarium on Nov 12 during #KubeCon. 🐟 RSVP here → luma.com/940nj3xh

I have averaged ~1500 commits a year over the last 3 years. If I understand things correctly, if I start using AI instead of coding myself that will become at least 15,000 commits a year. Or 40 commits per day, every day of the year. If this is true then I am putting all my money

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Blacksmith is like really really fast Im enjoying my 20 second CI runs