The new feature scans each commit to make sure it doesn’t contain secrets, such as an API key, and when it finds something, it immediately alerts the developer of the merge request, giving them time to invalidate the leaded credentials and create new ones. GitLab Adds Secret Detection, Open Sources ChatOps: Starting off this week, GitLab has announced version 11.9, which adds a couple interesting features such as multiple merge request approval rules and, most notably, that of secret detection.Maybe the real solution is to just live our lives forever in Slack and forget about that whole “talking” thing - it’s just a legacy app anyways. In the past, spoken language came first and was then later codified into letters and spelling, but now the tables have been turned and we find ourselves spending decades debating whether it’s “gif” or “jif” because the guy who invented the standard happens to want to pronounce this word a certain way. If it’s pronounced “container-dee” and “linker-dee” why’s there no visual clue? Why no capital D, at least? And why pronounce it “sequel” for “SQL”?īecause it’s the secret password to get into the cool kids clubhouse… or, rather the result of entering this new era with primarily text-based communication where pronunciation comes second to a word’s creation. (dear Portland…”cooch”? really?) or Manor Rd. ![]() (for the New Yorker in the know, that’s “how-stin” not the Texas “hyu-stuhn”) or Couch St. Sometimes, I wonder if this is the tech world’s way of sussing out who’s in the know and who’s a n00b - that weaponizing that McCulloch mentioned - by choosing pronunciations that would obviously go against the grain. The point is, there are lots of other words that now exist in this world that have spellings that simply don’t translate to an expected pronunciation. Language variation is okay! It’s fascinating! It doesn’t need to be a tool to put people down! “But Gretchen, how will I weaponize a trivial and harmless consonant difference to make other people feel bad and self-conscious about themselves?” McCulloch, however, points out that this sort of variation exists across many parts of language and should be embraced, not weaponized. If you hear anyone pronounce GIF with a soft G, it’s because they know something of this history.” “The creator of the GIF image format, Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, when deciding on the pronunciation, said he deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and CompuServe employees would often say ‘Choosy developers choose GIF(jif)’, playing off of Jif’s television commercials. ![]() ![]() That’s why when everyone comes across the word for the first time, they use a hard G.” Bazinet relates the origin of the debate as such: While Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch says that she has written the “definitive article” on the matter, which basically says it could go either way, I personally find the argument of web designer Aaron Bazinet, who managed to secure the domain, rather convincing in its simplicity: “It’s the most natural, logical way to pronounce it. It’s already been thoroughly nitpicked over the years, but apparently we’re all fighting about how to pronounce “GIF” again on Twitter.
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