{"id":2326,"date":"2026-07-23T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:58:55","slug":"vivian-voss-the-build-step-nobody-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2026\/07\/23\/vivian-voss-the-build-step-nobody-ordered\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Voss: The Build Step Nobody Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivian Voss \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/vivianvoss.net\/blog\/the-build-step-nobody-ordered\">The Build Step Nobody Ordered<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe pull request fixes a typo in a heading. One word, one file. The pipeline that ships it runs for eleven minutes, spends most of them downloading and compiling, and bills every one of those minutes to the team&#8217;s account.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cEvery other compile step in software serves a machine that cannot run the source. This one serves a platform that has been able to run the source for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Heinemeier Hansson \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/world.hey.com\/dhh\/you-can-t-get-faster-than-no-build-7a44131c\">You can&#8217;t get faster than No Build<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBut for the first time in probably 15 years, the state of the art is no longer finding more sophisticated ways to build JavaScript or CSS. It&#8217;s not to build at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian Voss \u2013 The Build Step Nobody Ordered: \u201cThe pull request fixes a typo in a heading. One word, one file. The pipeline that ships it runs for eleven minutes, spends most of them downloading and compiling, and bills every one of those minutes to the team&#8217;s account.\u201d \u201cEvery other compile step in software serves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@tistre\/116971296283743324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}