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Turning off PR CI: local gate with gh-signoff and a required status

Milan Jovanović describes turning off cloud CI for pull requests, running the build and tests locally, and posting a signoff commit status with the gh-signoff GitHub CLI extension. A git pre-push hook runs the gate, a GitHub ruleset requires the status before merging, and one cloud run stays on merges to main. It is a practical option for .NET teams that want to cut Actions costs and waiting time.

Tracking GitHub release download counts in a single-file WinForms app

A developer shared a small WinForms utility that totals GitHub release download counts across all their projects and keeps history over time. It compiles from a single C# 5 file with the csc.exe bundled in Windows, without Visual Studio. The write-up is useful for anyone tracking download trends or hitting GitHub API rate limits and TLS issues on .NET Framework 4.