GitHub Actions Workflows

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Setting Default Values in GitHub Actions Workflows

October 20, 2023

GitHub Actions is a powerful platform for automating workflows and tasks in your software development process. When creating workflows, you often need to set default values for variables or parameters, especially when certain values are not always going to be provided. In this blog post, let’s explore two techniques to set default values in GitHub Actions workflows, including a handy ! contains() approach and the double pipe || hack. We’ll also discuss the potential limitations of the double pipe hack.

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Triggering a GitHub Actions Workflow with a Slack Slash Command

May 10, 2021

In this post I am going to show how you can trigger a GitHub Actions workflow with a Slack Slash command.