DevFlow Update: Structured Rank System and GitHub Integration

Over the past year, we at Independence Blue Cross have deployed GitHub Copilot to our technology teams and it has become a valuable force multiplier for our development teams and has helped us deliver more for less. By accelerating boilerplate coding, surfacing patterns faster, and reducing context-switching, developers focus more time on business problem-solving and higher-value work. Thanks to Larry Reeve, Robert Pruett, Timothy O'Malley, Mark Taylor #DeveloperProductivity #GitHubCopilot #AIinEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #DevEfficiency

🚨 Attention @GitHub — We found a serious bug and you need to know. Today my team pushed commits to our main branch. Netlify deployed them. ✅ Commit hashes showed up in Netlify production logs. ✅ But GitHub commit history? Completely blank. ❌ The commits EXIST — Netlify's webhook received them with the correct SHAs (d5c89e1, 41c81dc, 7506412). But GitHub's own UI doesn't show them. This is a critical reliability issue. If your commit history doesn't reflect actual pushes, how can developers trust version control? → Not a force push issue. → Not a rebase. → Standard git push from multiple team members. → Webhook fires correctly, history doesn't update. We've reported this via GitHub Support — but I'm tagging this publicly because this could silently affect other teams who haven't noticed yet. @GitHub please investigate your event propagation pipeline between push events and the commit history UI. Have you or your team experienced this? Drop a comment. 👇 #GitHub #GitHubBug #DevTools #WebDevelopment #Git #Netlify #OpenSource #BugReport

Spend 2 hours on this today. You’ll be ahead of most developers in 2026. I'm not kidding. This free GitHub Copilot CLI course is *that* good. Built for beginners. But even experienced developers will pick up new ways of working. This covers, hands-on: ✔ Planning before implementing ✔ Automated code reviews ✔ Parallel agent execution ✔ Custom agents ✔ Skills And more. Not a CLI person and would rather use the IDE? Do it anyway. You’ll learn the underlying concepts once… And apply them everywhere. Tech lead / CTO? 👉 Share this with your team. Make it a team learning moment. This will pay back in days, not months. 👉 Comment "on it!" and I'll personally check back with you in a week. 👇 Link in the first comment. ---------- I share patterns like this every week. Follow if this is useful. #AgenticLeader #AIEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #DevLeaders #TechLeadership #GitHubCopilot #CLI #Developers

TechLeef Live sessions are back (Tunisian Time and Dialect). We already have more than 55 free Yocto content covering lot of topics: - History - BitBake - Metadata (recipes, classes, ...) - Layers - Machines, distros, ... - RAUC integration - Secure boot, .. We will cover more topics in depth like: - New updates (wrynose) - devtool - bitbake-setup - and more Spoiler: we will start new Yocto series from scratch for all beginners, this will be given by one of our TechLeef founders. Stay tuned. We will also start covering how to develop custom libraries in BitBake and how to navigate the source code and then we will introduce newcomers tickets and how to contribute to the project. If you want to be a contributor, just a developer, a Yocto expert, or whatever vision you have with Yocto, this is the perfect opportunity for you. No money No subscription Nothing Just join the discord server: https://lnkd.in/ddhszeXG All recordings will be uploaded on our TechLeef channel. Enjoy 😊 #techleef #yocto

Who knew GitHub settings could trigger a mid-life crisis and a coding lesson at the same time? 😅 The Story: While schecking 2FA on my GitHub today (Because of vercel issue), I stumbled upon the "Successor Settings." GitHub is basically asking: "Who inherits your digital legacy when you're gone?" It hit me differently. As developers and founders, we aren't just writing lines of code; we are building a digital empire. The Realization: If you feel like you aren't "succeeding" today, don't be discouraged. Your work isn't just for this moment. It’s for the next generation. This is a reminder to all my fellow devs: Write Clean Code: Don't leave a mess for your successor. Build logic that is easy to understand. Structure Matters: A well-structured project is the foundation of an empire that stands the test of time. Legacy over Logic: Build things your family and your future generation can be proud of. Let’s stop coding for the weekend and start coding for the legacy. #GitHub #CodingLife #SoftwareEngineering #CleanCode #BuildInPublic #SaaS #Legacy

Legacy .NET systems don't break all at once — they slow you down gradually, until every change feels risky. Florentina Patrascu, Expert Software Engineer at Maxcode, wrote about what it really takes to move these systems forward — incrementally, safely, without disrupting what already works. And where GitHub Copilot fits into that picture (and where it doesn't). If you're dealing with a system that's grown beyond anyone's full understanding, this one's worth the read: https://lnkd.in/e_Q-FuUZ #DotNet #LegacyModernization #GitHubCopilot #SoftwareEngineering #Maxcode

👨💻 Build Trust with a Strong GitHub Presence In today’s tech-driven world, your GitHub profile is more than just code — it’s your digital identity. 💡 Why does a strong GitHub profile matter? ✔ Showcases real skills & projects ✔ Builds credibility with clients & employers ✔ Highlights consistency and experience ✔ Strengthens your developer brand 🚀 Successful developers don’t just write code — they build a visible, trusted presence. At Digitrix Plus, we support professionals and businesses by: 🔹 Optimizing GitHub profiles for visibility 🔹 Showcasing projects strategically 🔹 Building authority in the tech space 🔹 Aligning developer profiles with business goals 👉 Your GitHub is your portfolio — make it powerful. #GitHub #Developers #Tech #Programming #PersonalBranding #DigitalGrowth #AgedGitHubAccounts #GitHubAccounts #GitHubMarketplace #OnlineIncome

One week. One hackathon. And a very cool demo video 😂 I just shipped Envoy Watch — a GitHub App that automatically creates isolated preview environments for every pull request, then destroys them when the PR closes. Here's what that means practically: You open a PR. A bot comment appears on it within seconds. 3-7 minutes later, that comment updates with a live URL — a fully deployed version of your app, running your exact branch, in its own isolated container. You merge the PR. The environment is gone. No cleanup. No lingering infra. No cost. I built this on top of Locus's BuildWithLocus API — a platform that lets you deploy containers programmatically with a single API call. No Dockerfiles, no cloud console, no DevOps. I'd never used it before this week. The interesting engineering challenge wasn't the deployment part. It was the orchestration. GitHub doesn't talk to Locus. Locus doesn't talk to GitHub. My Next.js app sits in the middle — receiving webhook events from one side, making API calls to the other, storing the mapping in Neon Postgres so it knows which environment to destroy when a PR closes. Three moving parts. One flow. Fully autonomous. One honest note: for the hackathon, all environments deploy from my own Locus wallet. In production, each user would connect their own API key so deployments bill against their account, not mine. Scoped intentionally, the architecture supports it cleanly. The demo video says more than I can in a post. If you're a developer tired of shared staging environments breaking your team's workflow — this is for you. #buildinpublic #softwaredevelopment #africatech #nextjs #hackathon

We attended SusHacks hackathon at VIIT and built a project in 24 hours — DraftPilot. The problem we saw: When a developer raises a PR, reviewers don’t just check code. They have to understand the whole context — what changed, why, is it correct, is it safe, is it complete. That means going through multiple files, diffs, and conversations… every single time. It’s slow and mentally draining. So we built DraftPilot. Just paste a GitHub PR link → get everything clearly: → PR description → File-by-file breakdown (what changed & why) → Review brief (where to focus) → Gaps & risks → Non-technical summary → Merge checklist → Strength check Live Here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gWw6xpkw by the way i only used free api, tokens are limited per day. While presenting, a judge told us: “This already exists. Have you heard of CodeRabbit?” We hadn’t. Instead of defending, we researched. That’s when we realized — tools like CodeRabbit focus on code quality, but we focused on understanding the PR as a whole. That became our edge. We didn’t win. But we learned something more important: 👉 Don’t just build ideas 👉 Find what existing products are missing — and build that Built with Next.js, Gemini Flash API, and GitHub REST API. 24 hours. Real learning. Big shoutout to my teammates —Sravani K , Dinesh Chitturu, and Akash Tamarapalli for making this happen 🙌 #hackathon #buildinpublic #nextjs #geminiai #developers #webdev #pullrequest #github #opensource

GitHub turning 18 is more than a milestone. It is a reminder of how fundamentally software development has changed. From individual coding to global collaboration, from isolated projects to open ecosystems, GitHub has quietly become the infrastructure behind how the world builds software. What is most interesting is not just the scale, but the shift in mindset. Code is no longer just written. It is shared, reviewed, iterated, and improved collectively. In many ways, GitHub helped normalize a new way of working where transparency, collaboration, and speed are not advantages but expectations. And as AI starts to reshape development again, the question is no longer how we write code, but how we collaborate with both humans and machines. Some platforms grow with time. Others redefine how an entire industry operates. 💬 Curious to hear your thoughts How has GitHub changed the way you work over the years? #GitHub #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #Collaboration #Tech