Jesse Houwing articles - 59 total
Say goodbye to your Personal Access Tokens
We got rid of all Azure DevOps PAT usage and so should you. 📢 Big shout out to Jesse! Without his...
GitHub's new Billing - Assigning Cost Centers in Bulk
You can assign resources to cost centers, which will in turn charge any costs associated with that...
Use inline completions for more answers with GitHub Copilot Free
2 months ago, GitHub gave everybody their taste of GitHub Copilot with the limited free tier. You get...
Troubleshooting GitHub Copilot keyboard shortcuts in Jetbrains IDEs
Over the past months I've delivered 100s of GitHub Copilot workshops. Ranging from 2 hour...
The use or uselessness of signed commits
This is why it's possible to sign a commit. Signing a commit adds cryptographic proof of your...
Don't get lost in your plans
Today I got a call from a customer who is trying to understand what's going on in their teams and is...
Restrict GitHub branches to specific prefixes
Many people follow some kind of naming format for their branches. Be it because they're using GitHub...
Recommendations for using Azure CLI in your workflow
Azure CLI is widely used in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, as well as many other CI/CD tools....
Allow people to find you on Mastadon from your Ghost Pro domain
First, I grabbed my personal finger file from my Mastadon server (hachyderm.io): GET...
Accessing (private) GitHub resources from a Codespace
Photo by Tawheed Manzoor, used under Creative Commons By default, your GitHub Codespace carries an...
Investigating az-cli performance on the hosted Azure Pipelines and GitHub Runners
I've been building a few more workflows and pipelines over the past few days and had been...
VSBuild task fails on self-hosted Azure Pipelines Agent
Today I got this baffling error while trying to run one of the few pipelines I own that requires a...
Protect the repository hosting your GitHub Action
Cover photo used under Creative Commons It comes as no surprise that the tags and branches solution...
Publish Azure DevOps Extensions using Azure Workload Identity
Photo used under Creative Commons As you may know, I maintain several Azure DevOps Extensions. To...
Tips & tricks: Git under WSL and windows
Since the introduction of WSL I've started to rely on it more and more, but there are still a few...
Hey! You broke our pipeline!
One of the advantages of Azure Pipelines is that it automatically updates your tasks to the latest...
Enable RenovateBot for Azure Pipelines
In my report on the Security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace I came to the unfortunate...
Speeding up the Azure DevOps Extension tasks
In particular the Publish Azure DevOps Extension task that spent quite a bit of time extracting the...
Security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace
My colleague Rob Bos has been working on analyzing the GitHub Actions Marketplace for security and...
Definitive solution for log4shell in Azure DevOps Server Search
A version of Azure DevOps Server with a reasonably recent, secure, and supported version of Elastic...
What's GitHub's new require approval of the most recent push policy all about?
It was introduced with the express intent to prevent someone responding to a code review request...
Issuing workflow commands from the Windows shell in GitHub Actions
It's a little-known fact that the default shell in for GitHub Actions is different depending on the...
Update Ghost blogs and pages with PowerShell
The samples provided by Ghost are in JavaScript, Curl and Python, all languages I'm not fluent in,...
Upgrade Hosted Agent / GitHub Runner PowerShell
I managed to upgrade PowerShell at the start of the run and the agent will happily use it after...
Be Secure and Compliant with GitHub
How do we ensure security after we have deployed our application? This question comes up in many...
Installing git-filter-repo on windows
I've been trying to get git-filter-repo to work on Windows and WSL today and it's been quite a...
Customizing Codespaces
You’ve probably had this situation at least once on your career: you join a new team and it takes...
Log4J – A 10 step mitigation plan
Originally posted on the Xebia Blog. Update: which vulnerabilities are present? The...
Azure DevOps 2020 and 2019 (and 2018) patch for log4j vulnerability
Update: Official statement from Microsoft. Azure DevOps Server ships with a pretty old version...
Adding Visual Studio 2022 to Azure DevOps Server 2020
I suspect that either the next major version of Azure DevOps Server (2022?) will bring official...