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GitHub Actions Secrets Leaked Through a Cache: The Miri Lesson

A Rust advisory showed Miri writing CI env vars into a cached target/ folder. Here's how I scope GitHub Actions secrets so no cache ever…

Rayyan | September 24, 2026 | 9 min

DevOps

GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest to 26.04: The Label I Mistook for a Pin

ubuntu-latest moves to Ubuntu 26.04 from 19 October. I diffed the two runner images: PHP 8.5, MySQL 8.4, Postgres 18, twelve tools gone, and a…

Rayyan | September 20, 2026 | 9 min

Laravel

Laravel Pint: The One Commit That Broke My Git Blame

I adopted Laravel Pint on a 640-file legacy app and wrecked git blame. Here's the one-commit fix, .git-blame-ignore-revs, and the CI check I run instead…

Rayyan | September 16, 2026 | 10 min

DevOps

GitHub Actions Reusable Workflows: The Bug I Fixed Eleven Times

I fixed one CI bug in eleven repos before learning GitHub Actions reusable workflows properly. Before/after YAML, composite actions, secrets, and the gotchas.

Rayyan | September 6, 2026 | 10 min

Python

Python 3.15 RC2: I Finally Tested Against a Release Candidate

Python 3.15's final RC is out with five weeks to October. I ran my test suites against it: lazy imports, frozendict, what broke, and the…

Rayyan | September 4, 2026 | 8 min