coding¶

October 30, 2025
in coding, GitHub
2 min read

Updating JSON objects used in a GitHub matrix

I have been using GitHub workflows and found that I can dynamically build JSON objects and use them to run GitHub workflow job variations using the GitHub matrix strategy. Each new workflow and each dynamically built JSON object can require some troubleshooting, especially if customizations are made compared to other workflows.

Note

This is a follow up to the Updating JSON objects with JQ blog when using JSON objects within a GitHub workflow.

GitHub Actions Project Matrix

Some of my project Build Workflows use the GitHub matrix strategy to process individual builds. Sometimes I will need to troubleshoot the PROJECT_GH_MATRIX variable locally; this post provides information about using the PROJECT_GH_MATRIX variable locally when working with the JSON objects.

August 4, 2025
in coding
5 min read

Updating JSON objects with JQ

Parsing entires in a JSON array

Given the following array containing directory paths:

[
    "/home/user/project/file1.txt",
    "/home/user/project/subdir/file2.log"
]

July 23, 2025
in coding
5 min read

Multi-line strings in YAML

Content Source

This content is from this wonderful answer from stackoverflow.

There are 5 6 NINE (or 63*, depending how you count) different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML.

TL;DR

March 20, 2024
in coding, Git, GitHub
2 min read

Encouraging git hygine with commitlint

I added a GitHub Action that uses commitlint to my GitHub Actions Monorepo. The GitHub Action is based off of commitlint (commitlint GitHub) and has been added in an effort to encourage (enforce?) good git hygiene. Note: The original actions-ci workflow was added in the v0.1.12 release.