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README-Glassfolio turns your GitHub username into a themed profile README (banner, stats, heatmap, 3D universe, projects) as plain SVGs in your own…
In April our checkout started failing for every customer who paid by bank transfer. The cause was a minor version of our payment provider's SDK, mer…
TL;DR: An architecture review gate is a GitHub Actions job that checks every pull request against thresholds you set for Well-Architected score, hig…
On October 7th I tried to publish @7onic-ui/tokens@0.3.7 and npm told me my own package didn't exist. npm error 404 Not Found - PUT https://regist…
A test pipeline has one job: give the team a fast signal it can trust. When a pull request goes red, the author should know what broke without openi…
A while ago I wrote about pinning MCP server contracts like dependencies . That was mcpward 0.2. It's now at 1.1 and on the GitHub Marketplace . Qui…
When an email API test starts failing on one branch, the first instinct is often to rerun the same checkout and watch the inbox again. That gets mes…
API tests usually fail with a red check, a stack trace, and a request to “run it again.” That is not much evidence. By the time someone opens the wo…
You push a one line fix and wait twelve minutes for CI to tell you it passed. Multiply that by every push, every developer, every day, and the pipel…
Before You Push: Building a Local Twin for GitHub Actions There is a particular kind of frustration every developer eventually learns. You write the…
An API integration can be green on Monday and broken on Tuesday without any application code changing. A provider changes a response field, a backen…
Chunk 3 is complete — and this one pushed me the furthest outside my comfort zone. Infrastructure as Code, remote state management, and a fully auto…
If you follow AI safety, you know the uncomfortable truth: modern LLM guardrails are failing not because of complex zero-day exploits, but because o…
A Beauty AR demo can be completely convincing while avoiding the question that matters in production: what happens when this effect reaches a device…
Part 3 of a 5-part series on automating a multi-app Android release pipeline. Part 1 → and Part 2 → covered getting the pipeline working — signing,…
Deploying to a Server You Can't Reach: Building a CI/CD Pipeline with AWS SSM and OIDC From pushing code manually to building, testing, containerizi…
Disclosure: I have no affiliation with Blacksmith. Nobody asked me to write this and nobody paid for it. I installed their GitHub App like anyone el…
Automating Playwright tests locally is useful, but running them automatically in a CI/CD pipeline gives teams faster feedback on every code change.…
Part 2 of a 5-part series on automating a multi-app Android release pipeline. Part 1 → covered the setup, a signing-fingerprint error, and a version…
A cron in one of our repositories stopped firing on 21 June and nobody noticed for ten weeks. Its only job was to rebuild this site each morning so…
The four questions, and the one nobody asks Pulling a container image somebody else built asks four separate questions. Most people answer three of…
Short answer: to obfuscate a .NET app in GitHub Actions, add a step after dotnet publish that runs the obfuscator on your published assemblies — wit…
Short answer: use two narrowly scoped API keys, switch traffic with an explicit activation step, and revoke the old key only after logs and live req…
Today, developing a system usually means working with several frameworks and technologies. Even when you already know a technology well, a question…
In the fast-paced world of modern software development, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are the backbone of efficie…
Short answer: give each CI job a short-lived, narrowly scoped API key, keep it out of build output, and make revocation a tested path rather than an…
If your deploy process is "SSH into the server, cd to the app, git pull , restart something, hope" — this post replaces it with git push . What you'…
A real pain point for mobile apps is waiting days or weeks for App Store and Play Store reviews whenever you need to ship a fix or a small update to…
CI goes red. Before I can think about the actual fix, I'm expanding the failing job and scrolling through three hundred lines of dependency resoluti…
Originally published on the Manzanita blog . I work on Manzanita, one of the runners compared below — so weigh the source. I've tried to make every…