Ken Muse
Dev Containers and AWS Credentials
Did you know it’s possible to share your AWS credentials between your host computer and your Dev Containers? Once again we explore the power of using mounts in Dev Containers.

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Dev Containers and node_modules
If you’ve ever worked with Node.js, you’ve dealt with the joy which is node_modules. Thousands of files slowly churning on your hard drive. Even more slowly if you’re trying to delete them. Want to make them easier to manage? Learn how Dev Containers can help.

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Creating a .gitattributes Without Committing
Continuing our examination of ways of influencing Git’s behaviors and settings, today we look at how to utilize a global .gitattributes and how to specify file handling without modifying the repository’s .gitattributes file.

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What Is The .gitattributes File?

What Is The .gitattributes File?

You’ve seen the file, but do you understand it’s purpose? Git has the ability to customize how it handles the files you edit. Today we explore how that works.

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Creating a .gitignore Without Committing

Creating a .gitignore Without Committing

Git is a powerful tool with lots of options to simplify how you work. Today we explore how to specify files and folders to automatically ignore for all local repositories, as well as how to configure Git tracking without a local .gitignore.

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Variable Groups in GitHub

Variable Groups in GitHub

If you’re moving to GitHub from Azure DevOps, you may miss the presence of variable groups for centralizing settings. At first glance, this feature appears to be missing from GitHub. It turns out that it just requires a bit of creativity to make this functionality available.

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Publishing Images With GitHub Actions
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a lot of questions about publishing images to registries using GitHub Actions. Today, I’ll explore the answer showing how to do this with registries in both Azure and GitHub. Along the way, I’ll also demonstrate how to use GitHub’s OIDC integration with Azure.

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Creating Visual Studio Code Extension Packs
Ever wished that you could encapsulate some recommendations or best practices for Visual Studio Code and make them available to your team? Then perhaps it’s time you considered creating an extension pack to organize and distribute those recommendations!

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Running Hugo in macOS Dev Containers
Moving to Apple Silicon can introduce challenges if you’re using x64-based containers. Sometimes, emulation is the answer. When it’s not, we can combine some Docker features with some bash scripting to create an optimized container that works well for both platforms.

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Distributing Templates with GitHub

Distributing Templates with GitHub

Having templates for your company or your personal projects can improve your development life and enable collaboration. In order to take full advantage of this, we need to make the packages we’ve created available to the rest of our team. To do this, we need a package management solution, such as GitHub Packages.

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