Melanie Richards

Sep 20, 2022 — A tally of work item trackers over the years.

From the movie Office Space, two consultants asking: 'what would you say you do here?

Aug 29, 2022 — My perspective on the core product management role, and a day in the life of a PM.

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Netlify

Branch-specific environment variable values from the Netlify UI, CLI, or API

Aug 23, 2022 — Developers can now change an environment variable’s value based on the branch, from the Netlify UI, CLI, or API. Available as a beta in Netlify Labs.

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Learning Log, Jul 2022

Aug 07, 2022 — Very little computer time, lots of sketching and sewing.

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Learning Log, Jun 2022

Jul 06, 2022 — A couple fun launches at Netlify (deploy deletion, and scopes and deploy contexts for environment variables), as well as some seasonal cleaning / digital gardening on side projects.

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Cleaning up deploys you no longer need

Jun 29, 2022 — Teams using Netlify can manually delete deploys they no longer need. To make your seasonal cleaning even easier, Netlify will also automatically delete failed or canceled deploys older than 6 months.

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Manage scopes and contextual values for environment variables through the Netlify UI

Jun 28, 2022 — Developers can now limit environment variables to specific scopes or change environment variables based on deploy context through the Netlify UI, available as a beta in Netlify Labs.

Rotate who sends the newsletter

Jun 11, 2022 — Foster a shared sense of ownership—and make the status-building process easier.

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Learning Log, May 2022

Jun 08, 2022 — Launching new features, reviewing snacks, and gazing at art. Content warning for a mention of Uvalde.

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How to Integrate Azure DevOps with Netlify CI/CD

May 24, 2022 — In addition to GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, Netlify now natively supports Azure DevOps as a Git provider! Now teams can connect new and existing sites on Netlify to an Azure DevOps repo, and take advantage of automatic builds and instantaneously-published deploys.