Technology

Lessons Learned: Migrating from AppVeyor to GitHub Actions 

The third article about GitHub Actions in a row? One must be thinking I am up to something. And they'd be right. Over the past week, I migrated more than 10 repositories from AppVeyor to GitHub Actions.

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Using Environment Protection Rules to Secure Secrets When Building External Forks with pull_request_target 🤐 

Building pull requests from forked repositories with GitHub Actions can be a bit tricky when it comes to secrets. As per the documentation, with the exception of GITHUB_TOKEN, secrets are not passed to the runner when a workflow is triggered from a forked repository. This is to prevent the automatic execution of untrusted code that may be contained within the forked repo.

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Reporting .NET 5 XUnit Code Coverage in Codecov via GitHub Actions and Coverlet 

You might remember my earlier post where I described how to set up code coverage reporting for .NET Core 3 using AppVeyor + OpenCover + Codecov. Time has moved on, .NET 5 has arrived, and the best practices have changed, so let's see how to collect code coverage for .NET projects in 2021.

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OK Google, water the garden! 

Let’s face it, my brain is just not compatible with any device that has a segment display or more than one button. Whether it’s a scientific calculator, thermostat, or water irrigation controller…

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