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Beyond the OIDC Silver Bullet: Why "Keyless" GitHub Actions Aren't Enough

OIDC kills long-lived cloud keys, and everyone treats that like the end of the conversation. It's the start. The supply-chain attacks landing in 2026 are self-propagating worms that never touch your token: stolen credentials, mutable tags, cache poisoning, and pull_request_target hijack the pipeline first. Here's the defense-in-depth blueprint that limits the blast radius.

The Future of Developer Compute

Your laptop is about to stop being where work happens. As agents multiply, local compute becomes the bottleneck, and cloud-native agent compute is the answer.

Prompt Design for Headless AI Agents

When you take an agent out of your IDE and put it on a cron job, everything changes. Here's the prompt architecture that separates 'agents are unreliable' from '15 agents running on a schedule that just work.'

Agentic Workflows on GitHub Events

Run AI agents triggered on any GitHub event like issues, PRs, schedules, and dispatches. Five approaches from simple inference to full agent frameworks: Copilot Models, Copilot Coding Agent, GitHub Agentic Workflows, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot SDK.

Why GitHub Actions Is the Most AI-Friendly CI

It's almost like Actions was made for the agentic era.

Automation is The Obvious Choice

The ROI bar for automation just hit the floor. AI didn't just make coding faster, it made building automations so cheap that NOT automating is the expensive choice.

The Future of SDLC Automation

How to use AI to enhance your development workflows

I'm Hungry Copilot

I'm feeling extra lazy today so I'm going to let AI do all the work.

AI Agents in GitHub Actions

Learn how to use GitHub Actions AI to automate workflows, generate code, and enhance your development process with AI-powered tools.

Google Photos Scraper

Getting public links to your google photos is harder than it seems

VS Code Copilot Customizations

VS Code AI Customization - Learn to use custom instructions, prompt files, and custom chat modes to personalize AI code generation, reviews, and chat responses.

Developing with GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and MCP

How I'm using GitHub Copilot agent mode with MCP to supercharge my development workflow through structured planning, implementation, and testing.

Learn GitHub Actions in Y Minutes

A comprehensive GitHub Actions cheat sheet inspired by Learn X in Y Minutes - everything you need to know in one commented YAML file.

I Rebuilt the Website

A brief introduction to my new portfolio website built with Docusaurus, showcasing my projects and blog.

Napa Sonoma Photos

Photos from my recent trip to Napa and Sonoma, sourced using a Google Photos scraper tool I built.