GitHub articles on Actions workflows, automated releases, repository hygiene, readmes and migrating from Azure DevOps to GitHub.
GitHub is the home of my open-source work and of most client platforms I help build. The posts here cover Actions workflows, scheduled builds, release automation, better readmes and the migration path from Azure DevOps.
Hands-on workshop on this topic: Azure DevOps to GitHub Migration Workshop
Migrating from Azure DevOps to GitHub touches more than source control - repositories, pipelines, work item tracking, permissions and governance all need a deliberate migration path. This workshop gives teams and …
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Azure Static Web Apps has one feature that is easy to underestimate until a team starts using it seriously: pull requests can behave like first-class deployment units.
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GitHub is an operational platform, not a backup strategy. For a long time, that distinction often felt theoretical because GitHub is - usually - highly available and because Git itself already distributes history well. …
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Large language model agents can appear intelligent while still producing unstable output across runs, contexts and tasks. In practice, this instability is rarely caused by model quality alone. The dominant factor is …
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What if an AI agent could write code, run tests, fix errors and repeat this process autonomously until the job is done? The Ralph Wiggum Method makes this possible with a simple but powerful loop pattern. Named after the …
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Look, we’ve all been there. It’s 11 PM, you’ve just fixed a nasty bug and you’re about to commit with “fix stuff” or “update things”. Six months later, you’re staring at your git history wondering what the hell you were …
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The recommended variant for specifying the SDK in .NET is the global.json file. This centrally guarantees that all computers on which the code is compiled ideally have the same SDK installed and use it.
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There are several ways to integrate source code including code highlighting into blogs, but GitHub Gists are by far the most convenient and best maintained option. Especially for Medium blogs, since Medium does not offer …
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For some time now, GitHub has offered the possibility to create custom pr templates , so that a kind of template is automatically embedded in the editor when creating.
Read Blog PostEvery time a new repository is created on GitHub there is one problem: the structure and appearance of readme.md. But thanks to Katherine Peterson (she’s a GitHub Engineer), we now have a great readme generator: …
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