A Real Deployment Exposed Two Contract Defects Before I Froze the Contract
A green CI run does not prove that the artifact built from reviewed source matches what production later exposes. The build job may have produced on…
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I hosted my no-Mac iOS pipeline as a browser wizard (and dropped the price to $1 for a day)
A while back I wrote about the GitHub Actions pipeline I built to ship Citolex to the App Store without ever owning a Mac. The pipeline itself hasn'…
How I Automated a 3-Tier Application CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Azure & GitHub Actions
How I Automated a 3-Tier Application CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Azure & GitHub Actions I recently completed a hands-on DevOps project where I t…
I built StarBack — discover projects from people who star your GitHub repo
Have you ever looked at a new GitHub star and wondered: Who is this person, and what are they building? That question led me to build StarBack . Sta…
From MKDIR to GIT PUSH: What Actually Happens to a Project?
The first time you see a Git workflow, it can look like a list of commands you are supposed to memorize: git add. git commit -m "Initial commit" git…
npm trust github Fails with 400 Bad Request: The Missing Permission Flag
We published a JavaScript client to npm this week, and wiring up trusted publishing cost three failed attempts and two wasted two-factor approvals b…
field-cage: a local-first alternative for GitHub Actions egress control
I built field-cage , an MIT-licensed eBPF agent that monitors and restricts outbound connections from Linux GitHub Actions runners. It overlaps with…
OIDC: Keycloak setup for ALB Gateway API
Introduction In my previous article , I tested using ALB CRDs to offload JWT validation for OIDC-based authentication to the Amazon EKS Kubernetes A…
Running the blog's content autopilot on a Claude subscription, not API credit
Ahnii! https://jonesrussell.github.io/blog/content-autopilot/ covers how this blog's Content Autopilot workflow mines, curates, and publishes withou…
Don't Let Codex Roam Free: 6 Guardrails I Use for AI-Assisted Coding
Leaving Everything to AI Feels Risky. But Codex Became Much More Reliable Once I Put Up Some Guardrails https://github.com/tosane932/sales_data_app…
Meet AntigravityCI: The Autonomous AI PR Assistant Powered by Google Gemini 🤖✨
Hey developers! 👋 I want to introduce you to AntigravityCI , an open-source project I built to eliminate the friction of switching context during co…
I looked at the GitHub Actions bill and built a CI + security base at home
In late June 2026, my org's GitHub Actions stopped at the billing cap. Every PR (pull request) CI (continuous integration; a system that runs tests…
My linter kept warning the people who did it right. Three times, in the same direction
The warning landed on the only people who had done it properly I maintain a linter that reads agent config files — SKILL.md , AGENTS.md , CLAUDE.md…
That amazing skill you shared only runs on your machine. I built a linter for it — then found I was 85% wrong
I mass-produced skills by saying "turn this into a skill." Then I shared them With Claude Code or Codex, any procedure that worked can become a reus…
Four patterns that keep my YouTube longform JSON queue from going stale
I manage the YouTube longform queue for my BuilderStack channel as JSON files in content/yt-longform-queue/ . A spec file lands there when a generat…
I Built AnswerTrace . GitHub Discussions Analytics for Your README
I noticed GitHub profiles show a lot about code contributions, but not much about contributions through GitHub Discussions . So I built AnswerTrace…
Pausing a GitHub Actions cron: the yaml trap that breaks all workflow triggers
After 11 uploaded videos disappeared from YouTube overnight , I wanted to stop the automated upload schedules while I investigated. The fix seemed t…
How I detected deleted YouTube videos using JSONL history diffing
The YouTube analytics cron ran without incident on August 10. Health checks were green. Then I looked at the channel manually and counted 79 videos…
Learning YAML From Scratch: What I Wish I Knew Before My First GitHub Actions Workflow published: true
I thought that the hard part of learning CI/CD was understanding pipelines, build stages and deployment strategies. It was much simpler than that, i…
From Manual APKs to Automated Play Store Releases: Every Mistake We Made Shipping Two Android Apps From One Codebase
A complete debugging journey through automating a multi-app Android release pipeline — from local builds burning out a free tier, to a Google Play e…
GitHub Doesn't Get “Hacked” the Way You Think
There is a dangerous misconception in software security: “If someone hacked GitHub, they must have broken through GitHub's login page.” Usually, tha…
Turn Trivy SBOM and SARIF output into versioned release evidence
Security tools already generate useful evidence. The problem at release time is often not another scan. It is proving which SBOM, test run, security…
Taming a 40-Minute Lean CI: Three Rounds, Three Wrong Suspects
Our Lean 4 + mathlib project used to spend 41 minutes in CI on every single PR. Today, the worst case — rebuilding the heaviest files from scratch —…
Docker Hub gets OIDC federation for GitHub Actions, retiring the PAT-in-a-secret pattern
Docker has switched on OpenID Connect authentication between GitHub Actions and Docker Hub, letting a workflow exchange a signed per-run identity to…
🚤OS July 2026 Recap: From Being Intimidated by GitHub Actions to Building My Own CI Workflows
When I first started contributing to open source, GitHub Actions felt like a black box. Seeing a failed workflow on my pull requests was intimidatin…
Deploy Laravel and Vue to cPanel Automatically with GitHub Actions
Uploading a ZIP file to cPanel after every small code change gets old very quickly. You fix one bug, build the Vue frontend, create a ZIP file, open…
GitHub Actions Getting Expensive? We Cut CI Costs to a Quarter With a One-Line Change
AI assistance disclosure: This article was drafted with the help of Claude. All technical content, design decisions, code references, and screenshot…
My 06:30 cron has never once started at 06:30
I keep a public repo whose only job is to watch how GitHub Actions treats schedule: triggers. 18 workflows, a few deliberately pathological. The num…
Your First CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions
From theory to a green checkmark You know what a pipeline does, now let's build one. By the end of this article you'll have a working CI pipeline th…
ActionsManager - manage GitHub Actions across repositories
I’ve been working on a self-hosted tool for managing GitHub Actions across multiple repositories, mostly because I was tired of maintaining the same…