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i still use github every day and probably will for years. but lately it feels like more and more of my actual work time disappears into ecosystem problems instead of engineering problems. actions queues randomly hanging, marketplace actions quietly abandoned, runners behaving differently for no obvious reason, review tooling becoming AI-generated noise, random outages where the status page says everything is fine while half the team cant deploy. none of it is catastrophic individually which honestly makes it worse somehow

what ive noticed is most people around me didnt really “leave github,” they just slowly stopped depending on it for everything. repos stay there but CI moves elsewhere, reviews happen through different tooling, deployments get separated out. thats basically how stuff like depot, self hosted runners, tenki etc started creeping into our workflow too. feels less like a migration and more like people gradually rebuilding their own stack around github because the all in one approach stops scaling cleanly after a certain point

swear every project i touch somehow turns into a CI/debugging session now lol. started out simple enough because everyone says “just use github actions” and at first it actually felt pretty cool seeing tests/deployments automate themselves

then u add more stuff and suddenly ur fighting flaky runners, weird marketplace actions, permissions problems, random queues, broken caches, all while trying to finish assignments on time. feels like i accidentally picked up a second course called “maintaining pipelines nobody understands”

been trying random alternatives lately mostly because i got tired of spending entire nights debugging workflow nonsense instead of coding. self hosted runners for a bit, depot, tenki, random smaller CI tools people casually mention in reddit threads. honestly half the time im not even looking for “better,” just something that feels less glued together

starting to understand why older devs always say tooling complexity creeps up slowly lol

I’ve been playing a royal Sims 4 save lately and now I’m trying to make the whole thing feel more complete.

Right now my storyline is about a young queen who just inherited the throne, but the palace is already full of drama. There’s pressure for her to marry, some nobles are trying to control the court, and I’m thinking of adding a rival royal family later so it feels more like a proper dynasty save.

The problem is, I feel like royal gameplay needs very specific mods/CC to make it work. I’m looking for things like:

royal furniture / palace build CC
gowns, crowns, uniforms, and formal outfits
poses for portraits, coronations, weddings, and court scenes
gameplay mods that make family drama, inheritance, or royalty feel more realistic
anything that makes the save feel less “normal Sims in fancy outfits” lol

I usually find stuff from Patreon and ModCo, but I’m curious where everyone else finds their royal-themed mods/CC too.

What are your must-have mods or CC for royal Sims gameplay?