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Everything here happened on real repos with linked pull requests. No theory.
2026-10-15 · CI rescue
CI dead since Oct 2: four layered bugs, one green main
Invalid YAML, unquoted docker flag, my own bad indent, and FastAPI's lazy routers — how a red pipeline hid behind green badges.
Four repos, fifteen historical secrets, zero live ones
2026-10-15 · Secret scanning — why the action wrapper failed and the token-free binary won, plus how to bless a baseline honestly.