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🔐 The One Where Your Credentials Stop Living in .env
Tax season reminds us that 'future me will handle this' is always a lie. This week GitHub shipped two things that reduce the amount of stuff you have to manually manage.
🏠 Main Branch: The One Where Your PR Inbox Got Fixed
The github.com/pulls dashboard got rebuilt from scratch with an Inbox view, saved views, and real filtering. Plus: service container entrypoint overrides in Actions.
🔍 Main Branch: The One Where We Slow Down and Read the Fine Print
GitHub is using your Copilot data to train AI starting April 24. Here's how to opt out, plus 28 new secret scanning detectors and a very good old dog.
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