https://gitsnitch.app/blog/Recent content on GitSnitch BlogHugoenGitSnitchFri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://gitsnitch.app/blog/posts/what-is-gitsnitch/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://gitsnitch.app/blog/posts/what-is-gitsnitch/<p>If you&rsquo;re reading this, there&rsquo;s a decent chance you clicked through from somewhere like LinkedIn and have no idea what GitSnitch is yet. Fair enough. Here&rsquo;s the plain version.</p> <h2 id="the-problem">The problem</h2> <p>Most security incidents on GitHub aren&rsquo;t dramatic. Nobody breaks in through some clever exploit. What actually happens is much more boring:</p>https://gitsnitch.app/blog/posts/branch-protection-rules/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:30:00 -0400https://gitsnitch.app/blog/posts/branch-protection-rules/<p>Branch protection is one of those GitHub settings that quietly does its job in the background. Nobody notices it until it&rsquo;s not there anymore, and by then something has usually already gone wrong.</p> <p>If you run engineering, security, or you&rsquo;re just the person who ends up on the hook when a repo gets compromised, this is worth five minutes.</p>