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For most of my career, building software started with the same setup: keyboard, mouse, editor, terminal, browser, and an impressive number of tabs I was definitely going to look at later. The tools changed, but the relationship did not. Like most developers, I learned commands, memorized shortcuts, and adapted my thinking to the machine.
AI is changing that relatio...
Our last update covered content through August. We did not publish another in September while other public content addressed the August 17 outage. This edition covers progress over the past two months.
The short version of August and September: we reduced shared-database pressure, added overload controls, created headroom for GitHub Actions, expand...
Maintainers look at star history to answer a practical question: did a launch, release, or event change a project’s trajectory? To reconstruct that curve from the GitHub API, tools had to request pages of stargazer records (each person who currently stars the repository and when they starred it), keep the timestamps, and throw the identities away.
Over time, that d...
Context matters when you’re working with AI. Every codebase has its own house rules: how components are structured, which scripts to run, and which conventions apply to different frameworks and file types.
Copilot can help you make changes across a project, but it works best when it knows those rules, too. Much of that knowledge can live inside the repository, so C...