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Year recap and future goals for the GitHub Innovation Graph
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7 learnings from Anders Hejlsberg: The architect behind C# and TypeScript
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Power agentic workflows in your terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI
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Build an agent into any app with the GitHub Copilot SDK
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Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
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From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
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How to maximize GitHub Copilot’s agentic capabilities
A senior engineer’s guide to architecting and extending Copilot’s real-world applications.
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Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
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GitHub Availability Report: December 2025
In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)
We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
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Let’s talk about GitHub Actions
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GitHub Availability Report: November 2025
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The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era
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Your stack, your rules: Introducing custom agents in GitHub Copilot for observability, IaC, and security
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