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This article aims to clear the confusion around the GitHub Repository Secrets and explain how to successfully use them in your pipelines for fun and profit! Well, mostly for additional security and pipeline parameterization, really......

This article explains in very brief terms - it is Christmas and I'm enjoying my 2-week-long European vacation, after all 😉 - how to make sure your Azure DevOps (YAML) pipelines fire on schedule. Because by default, they won't....

Time to write about Home Assistant for a change! I've been using the home automation platform for a couple of years now and while it's immensely powerful, you also run into all kinds of issues....

It took me something like 10 years of struggling to get remote triggers to finally fire in Azure DevOps, and in this article, I'll share how I finally got the remote repository trigger to work for an actual Team Project in real production use (and th...

This article explains one possible reason why you might run into an error like "Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character....

Have you ever wondered how you could roll back the latest layered Azure IoT Edge deployment? I have - it's actually pretty useful. But what for?...

This article documents a simple but annoying fix to an issue with Azure DevOps. In this particular case, an incoming webhook (configured as a service connection) would fail to fire, no matter what....

This short article simply documents how to install the dependencies for running Robot Framework on Azure DevOps' hosted agents....

Uh, okay, well. So this is where you should just RTFM (that's along the lines of "check the documentation" for those uninitiated in the world of unnecessary abbreviations)....

This article explains how to fix a weird and surprising error about GitHub Actions workflow file thrown at you when you try to push your changes using GitHub Desktop. The odd part is that you had no changes to the workflow file at all....

Okay - a quick piece of documentation that was a bit lackluster, so it's again a good idea to log somewhere. How to package a simple DLL that's a result of your Azure DevOps Pipeline?...