The article presents ten lesser-known but highly useful GitHub Actions that can enhance workflow automation, focusing on tasks like YAML validation, markdown link checking, auto-assignment of PRs, commit message linting, dependency caching, Slack notifications, license compliance checking, PR size labeling, security scanning, and Jira integration.
We show you how to write a GitHub Action that queries a data-centric software system to generate an automated Slack notification and message.
Simon Willison shares a scraping technique called Git scraping, where data is scraped and tracked over time by committing the changes to a Git repository. He demonstrates the technique using an example of California fires data from CAL FIRE website.
This Github Action allows you to easily integrate OpenAI API into your workflow. With just a few steps, you can use OpenAI's language model to generate responses for your project.
