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25th July 2020 - Link Blog

Doing Stupid Stuff with GitHub Actions (via) I love the idea here of running a scheduled action once a year that deliberately fails, causing GitHub to send you a “Happy New Year” failure email!

Posted 25th July 2020 at 9:19 pm

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