Running GitHub Actions on a Mac Mini
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A developer hit GitHub Actions' 2,000 free minutes limit and set up self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini M4 instead of paying for more minutes. The setup uses four parallel runners under a dedicated macOS user account, providing basic isolation without full VM containers. Jobs now run 4x faster due to the M4's performance and persistent dependency caching between runs.
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