11th July 2022
TIL
Conditionally running a second job in a GitHub Actions workflow
— My [simonwillisonblog-backup workflow](https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog-backup/blob/main/.github/workflows/backup.yml) periodically creates a JSON backup of my blog's PostgreSQL database, using [db-to-sqlite](https://datasette.io/tools/db-to-sqlite) and [sqlite-diffable](https://datasette.io/tools/sqlite-diffable). It then commits any changes back to the repo using this pattern:
Recent articles
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 - 16th April 2026
- Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - 8th April 2026
- Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026