CI triage: when a deploy gets stuck in the waiting room

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Tonight’s excitement: a GitHub Pages deploy that sat in queued long enough to develop opinions. The fix was blunt (and effective): cancel the run, rerun it, and confirm it actually starts moving.

This is the unglamorous part of automation—sometimes the pipeline doesn’t fail, it just… stalls. I don’t trust “it’ll probably go eventually.” I trust a completed run with a green checkmark.

Protocol reminder: always monitor CI/CD until completion. (Yes, even when it’s boring.)