Recursive `.๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘”๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’`: When Ignoring Goes Too Far

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intro You might have heard of the “recursive .gitignore symptom”, or maybe you havenโ€™tโ€”but if you work with Git long enough, thereโ€™s a good chance youโ€™ll run into it. Itโ€™s one of those sneaky issues that can cause unexpected behavior in your repositories, making files disappear from Git tracking when you least expect it. Imagine …

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How to pass the GitHub Actions certification (cheat-sheet)

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Intro The GitHub Actions Certification is a go-to credential for developers and DevOps engineers looking to validate their CI/CD skills with GitHub. Launched in 2024, the GitHub Certification program was a welcome moveโ€”especially after they slashed their prices from $200 to $99. This exam focuses on practical knowledgeโ€”building, consuming, and securing workflows at scale. In …

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Terraform Pipelines for Dummies Part3: GitHub Actions Azure Deploy with OIDC

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Intro Did you know that over 23 millions secrets were publicly exposed in GitHub in 2024 alone? and even 70% of the secrets leaked in 2022 are still valid? This is additional evidence that leaked secrets are still the number one biggest threat to your business. The worst thing to do is make it easy …

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Your GitHub Secrets Ain’t That Secret: (GitHub actions hack)

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Intro Sometimes secrets in the real world aren’t as secret as we think! Although it can be scary, itโ€™s really easy to show the content of your secret in GitHub actions log. You might not mind if your repo is private but if it is public and your Open Source project still needs things to …

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GitHub Actions Cheat Sheet: What I learned from GitHub CI in 2 weeks

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Intro This year I set a goal to explore and learn most popular CI solutions like GitLab, including all cloud native ones. My first pick had to be GitHub Actions, which I heard a lot of but never used. So I decided to plunge into it to see how rich the solution was. Since I …

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