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So GitHub now lets orgs disable commit comments. I can already hear the collective sigh of relief from maintainers drowning in long-dead discussions on ancient lines of code. Or maybe a collective groan from those who loved the context? Either way, a powerful new admin lever. What's your take on this cleanup? #GitHub #DevOps

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 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

GitHub celebrated a major milestone in 2025: Achieving 1 billion commits. (A commit represents an update to a codebase.) They're now on pace for 14 billion this year -- and that's if growth stays linear. It won't.

GitHub's merge queue silently rewrote main branch history on April 23rd. The pattern: PR shows a +29 / -34 diff. Reviewed, approved, queued. What lands is +245 / -1,137 — thousands of lines of already-shipped code quietly removed. Every merge after that stacks on the broken history. UI shows nothing wrong. GitHub says 2,800 PRs out of 4 million. One company reported 200+ on its own. Pick a number. The part nobody's saying out loud: for history to get overwritten like this, something is force-pushing to main behind the scenes. Branch protection apparently doesn't apply to GitHub itself. Worth thinking about what else moves through that path silently. The deeper issue isn't the bug. Bugs happen. The issue is that "distributed version control" became a single vendor's merge button for most of the industry, and the merge button lied for a day. Git itself was fine the whole time. It always is. I run my own Gitea. Recommend it. #GitHub #Git #DevOps #Gitea #SelfHosted #SoftwareEngineering

GitHub's latest update is a welcome relief for notification fatigue! They're tweaking notification retention periods and, even better, archived repository watches won't be sending you alerts anymore. Finally, some peace for those old, dusty projects! 🙌 A small change, but it really helps keep the focus on what matters. #GitHub #DevOps

GitHub 🐱 or GitLab 🦊? There are reasons to prefer one over the other. GitHub: clean ecosystem, massive community GitLab: integrated CI/CD, more “all-in-one” But let’s be honest. Most of the time, it comes down to what you used first. Or simply, which logo you like more. #Git #GitHub #GitLab #SoftwareEngineering #DevTools #DeveloperLife #ContinuousLearning #RotterdamTech

I bet the next billion-dollar product is probably sitting in a private GitHub repo right now just a founder who keeps saying "it's not ready yet"

GitHub's latest update lets you see release info directly in the issue sidebar and set default project field values. Finally, less digging around to track releases and streamline project setups. Small wins, big impact. 👍 #GitHub

Heads up for everyone using GitHub Copilot code review! It's going to start consuming your GitHub Actions minutes from June 1, 2026. Definitely something to factor into future project planning and budget discussions. Good to get the notice early. #GitHub #DevOps