Read, Write, Execute.

Notes from the team on software engineering research, CI/CD, and how we're building RWX.

Support for Multiple Operating Systems, without Defaults or Boilerplate

We recently shipped support for specifying the operating system for RWX runs. We did it without having defaults, or requiring boilerplate.

July 16, 2025

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Automatically Creating GitHub Pull Requests

We recently shipped an RWX package to create GitHub pull requests. It's the fastest and easiest way to automate opening PRs.

July 15, 2025

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Fast File Tree Navigation, Powered by WebAssembly

We shipped a web-based file tree navigator to see files from a task's output. To make browsing as fast as possible, we implemented it in WebAssembly.

July 11, 2025

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Instantly Starting Batch Downloads

We started to build an asynchronous user experience commonly used for batch downloads. RWX is a platform built on performance though, so we made it faster.

July 10, 2025

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Which Version of Node.js Does VS Code Use to Run Extensions?

When we built our language server and VS Code extension we wanted to determine the version of Node.js that VS Code uses to run extensions.

July 9, 2025

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Node 22.7 Broke Character Encoding

Node 22.7.0 introduced bugs with character encoding. As a best practice, pin to specific versions of runtimes in a .tool-versions file.

July 8, 2025

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VS Code Extension for RWX Now Available

The VS Code Extension for RWX is now available, taking the most productive platform for developing CI/CD workflows, and making the feedback loop even faster.

July 7, 2025

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A Node.js Maintainer Lost Their Keys

A Node.js maintainer lost the keys used to sign a publicly available release. For engineering teams running their CI/CD pipelines on RWX, everything was fine.

July 3, 2025

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Preventing Cache Races

When two tasks have the same cache key, RWX will prevent cache races.

July 2, 2025

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