The Aging Developer

Standardizing My Code Repositories

May 23, 2026

I had six active projects under my personal GitHub account and six slightly different versions of the same configuration. Some had CodeQL scanning enabled. Others did not. Two had branch protection rulesets. Three had the correct license year. The rest had whatever year I happene…

Setting up Git Commit Signing

February 5, 2021

I recently had to completely reinstall the OS and all software on my personal computer. I had to go back and set up my development tools including SSH and GPG keys. I do this just infrequent enough that I had to review the documentation on how to do it. So I figured it would be w…