GitHub updates issue sidebar with release info and default project fields

GitHub just rolled out a Rule insights dashboard and a unified filter bar! This is great for anyone managing repos with complex rule sets. Finally, a clearer view on how those rules are performing and easier filtering. Little quality-of-life updates like these make a big difference in daily dev work. #GitHub #DevTools

I thought GitHub Actions was just CI/CD. This book proved me wrong. "GitHub Actions in Action" shows you that GitHub Actions is a full automation engine — not just a pipeline tool. It's already used by millions of developers worldwide to automate any kind of manual task in engineering. And the best part? It doesn't just automate GitHub — it can automate the entire GitHub universe. If you've been sleeping on GitHub Actions, this book will wake you up. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to go deeper with GitHub and rethink how much they're spending on external tools. #github #cicd #distribution #softwareengineering

🛠️GitHub launched gh skill, a new CLI command to manage agent skills What it lets you do: ▶️ discover and install skills from GitHub repositories ▶️ manage and update them from the CLI ▶️ publish your own skills ▶️ use the same skills across different agent hosts GitHub describes agent skills as portable instructions, scripts, and resources that can work across tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI Have you already tried it? #GitHub #GitHubCopilot #CLI #Agents #DeveloperTools

 GitHub's 'gh skill' CLI unleashed: Build, discover, install & share portable agent skills that supercharge Copilot, Claude Code and more. Thanks Silvia Rodenas Vaquero for sharing this!

Github is really creating some gravity in the AI Game, which is hard to resist. Will GH Copilot become - to the vast majority of engineers - what Word was for any office job in the Late 90s/early 2000s? #genai #sdlc #engineering #whereisclippy

This is the 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁 way I've used GitHub 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗟𝗜 🚀 🤖 I just let it take a 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 exercise... by itself I pointed it at a GitHub Skills exercise and told it to complete it through the browser. The agent opened GitHub, created a repo from the template, read the exercise instructions from the issue, configured GitHub Pages, committed files, opened a PR, merged it - and waited for feedback after each step before moving on. Fully autonomous, start to finish. 🔗 I'll link to the resources I used in the comments. #GitHub #GitHubCopilotCLI #CopilotCLI #GitHubSkills

A great example of using the GitHub Copilot CLI to test our https://learn.github.com.skills and create a demo of what was accomplished 🚀

GitHub's new global pull requests dashboard just hit opt-out public preview. 🤔 This means a unified view will be ON by default for everyone! For dev teams, that could be a huge win for visibility and streamlining workflows. Just remember to opt out if it doesn't fit your current setup. Curious to see the adoption! #GitHub #DevTools

Lesson one from PrJanitor: GitHub's pushed_at doesn't give us the last date something was pushed to master; it's the last time anything was pushed to any branch. This means we sadly tried to fix some dead projects that simply got some dependabot branches (that were never merged). That seems to explain the low response rate, fix pushed now...