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Build logs from the shadow stage: technical notes by Atakan Özalan, written under the name he has used online since 2007.

• Build logHow do you run Unity CI builds on a self-hosted Mac mini?Register the Mac mini as a GitHub Actions runner with its own labels, call Unity in batch mode from a script instead of a container, and keep the workspace between runs so the Library stays warm. For GoTasty, an Android development build went from 52 minutes cold to under 8 minutes warm.Read the post
• Build logHow do you keep a GitHub outage from breaking your iOS build?Make pod install work from a local cache first, remove the sources you do not need and retry network failures with a back-off instead of failing on the first error. On 8 November 2026 GitHub release downloads returned 503 for about 30 minutes and took two TestFlight builds of GoTasty, GOGOGO LLC's Unity game, down with them; this is the fix.Read the post