Add three posts: security saga, stale Dependabot PRs, gh-org-guard - #17
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Three story-driven posts drawn from recent org work, all on the blog's recurring "a check that passes/fails for the wrong reason" throughline: - beg-bounty-and-the-token-that-wasnt-dead: "revoked" in the GitHub UI doesn't invalidate a secret; an org sweep found a second live token only because scanning was off on that repo. - 43-red-dependabot-prs-none-were-the-dependency: 43 red Dependabot PRs, none failing because of the dependency — stale branches off a broken main; @dependabot rebase split stale-failures from real incompatibilities. - gh-org-guard-self-healing-governance: the solo-owner deadlock, FLOOR vs REVIEW, and the two-identity auto-approve trick. All secrets redacted per the blog's About note. Content only — no theme, config, or layout changes. Local `hugo --gc --minify` builds clean; the three pages render and all cross-links resolve. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds three new long-form, story-driven Hugo posts that reinforce the blog’s recurring theme: checks that pass/fail for the wrong reason are worse than having no check at all.
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- Added a post on solo-owner GitHub org governance and avoiding branch-protection deadlocks (
gh-org-guard-self-healing-governance). - Added a post on “revoked” secret-scanning states vs actually invalidated credentials, plus org-wide scanning blind spots (
beg-bounty-and-the-token-that-wasnt-dead). - Added a post on diagnosing stale Dependabot PR failures vs real dependency incompatibilities (
43-red-dependabot-prs-none-were-the-dependency).
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| content/posts/gh-org-guard-self-healing-governance.md | New governance-focused post describing FLOOR/REVIEW baselines and a self-healing reconciler approach. |
| content/posts/beg-bounty-and-the-token-that-wasnt-dead.md | New security post about validating token revocation at the source and finding blind spots when scanning is disabled. |
| content/posts/43-red-dependabot-prs-none-were-the-dependency.md | New CI/maintenance post about separating stale-branch failures from true dependency upgrade breakage using rebases. |
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Three new story-driven posts, all on the blog's recurring throughline — a check that passes (or fails) for the wrong reason is worse than no check.
beg-bounty-and-the-token-that-wasnt-dead(2026-07-25)43-red-dependabot-prs-none-were-the-dependency(2026-07-26)main;@dependabot rebasesplit stale-failures from real incompatibilitiesgh-org-guard-self-healing-governance(2026-07-27)Scope: content only — three
content/posts/*.mdfiles, no theme/config/layout changes.Redaction: all real secrets appear only as redacted placeholders, consistent with the About page's note ("Code samples have credentials and internal addresses redacted"). Verified no real token strings are present.
Verification:
hugo --gc --minify(extended v0.163.3, matching CI) builds clean — 22 pages.public/posts/<slug>/.status-page-that-survives-home).No
draft:flag — these are ready to publish. Not merging — merge when ready; Cloudflare Pages deploys on merge.🤖 Generated with Claude Code