GitHub Actions easter egg

Many years ago I worked on rebuilding the GitHub Actions workflow run overview page. It shows an overview of the different jobs that are part of the workflow run:

Workflow run page

The overview supports zooming and panning, and if you scroll all the way to the left you’ll find a small easter egg:

It just says hello and links to actions/humans.txt. Either I hid it too well, or it’s not worth talking about but I’ve seen very few mentions of this over the years. I’m obviously biased since I put this in, but I still think it’s a nice touch and I’d love to see more things like that. Products are built by people, and shouldn’t be all serious all the time. So next time you’re waiting on a workflow run to finish, scroll left and say hi.

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