Your first run with skillup
A change that ships without a version bump reaches nobody, and nothing tells you. Ten minutes in a throwaway directory to see it happen, and then catch it.
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CI/CD
Ready for human
I run a coding session per repository and they can't talk to each other. For a while the thing carrying messages between them was me, and I kept getting it wrong.
The fastest job is the one you never run
Half my CI jobs ran for no reason on every merge request. Skipping them with rules:changes, and why that is trickier than the manual suggests.
The marketplace I had to defend from my own attack surface
Opening a public marketplace for agent workflows meant publishing an attack surface, and then having to defend it from my own convenience.
The version pin you can't lower
A standard-library security fix forced a Go version bump, and then the release failed because the build image shipped an older toolchain.
A release is just another merge request
Moving off tag-on-merge releases, where a release is a side effect of merging, to a model where the release is itself a reviewable change.
The component that fired on every schedule
A CI component gated on the default branch fired on every Renovate schedule too, because a scheduled run is also on the default branch.
Stop installing the same tools on every pipeline job
Nearly every CI job began by fetching and compiling the same tools. Baking them into one image instead, and what that saved per pipeline.
The build gate these sites never had
Three Hugo sites each hand-rolled a near-identical deploy job that only ever ran on merge, so nothing ever checked the build before it landed.
The secret that wasn't on my branch
A secret scanner failed a merge request over a test key and a documentation PEM that the change did not contain. Scoping a scan properly.
