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⏳ Main Branch: The One Where Your CI History Gets Shorter - Issue #38
GitHub Actions retention, push rule path exceptions and the rule insights dashboard, plus a Silicon Valley satire worth watching and an MCP server I wrote.
🔁 Main Branch: The One Where the Retries Made It Worse - Issue #37
The August 17 GitHub outage postmortem, VS Code retry storms, credential revocation by token type, and blocked user management.
🔭 Main Branch: The One Where Defaults Stop Being Blind Spots - Issue #36
Three things shipped this stretch that all come down to the same idea: control over defaults.
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Hi, I'm Andrea Griffiths
I created Main Branch to focus on the fundamentals of software development. In a world of AI hype and rapid framework churn, I believe mastering the core tools and concepts is the best way to build resilient, high-quality software.
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