GitHub handed $500K to 50 open source maintainers, and they shipped
I keep coming back to the same conversation when I talk to people who run open source projects. They get more pull requests from strangers than they used to. The issues look…
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Bot Pull Requests Get Better When You Add an AGENTS.md
Eighteen months into the agent-shaped pull request era, the maintainers I trust have stopped arguing about whether to accept the work. The argument that now actually matters is whether the repo is…
I almost merged an AI patch that broke my own repo
A green CI run tells you the tests passed. It does not tell you the agent understood the project. A recent New Stack write-up makes the gap sharper: it is now the…
Less clever, more bytes per second: a Rust casefolding postmortem
I shipped two hot loops in the last eighteen months that ran slower in production than they did in my unit tests. Both times, the optimization I was proud of turned out…
GitHub lawyers taught themselves to ship code without an engineer seat
I keep meeting smart people who say the same thing: I could never build something useful at work. That sentence is almost always wrong. What they usually mean is that nobody ever…
OpenAI’s GitHub rival exists, and I’m not sure I care
I have been hearing rumors about an OpenAI code hosting platform for about a month. My first reaction was the same as everyone else in the small Discord I lurk in: why…
GitHub Universe 2026 is the Only Conference Where Agents Meet Actual Code
GitHub Universe 2026 is the Only Conference Where Agents Meet Actual Code Every week there is another AI announcement promising to change how you write code. Most of those announcements fade into…
Why GitHub Finally Fixed the Secret Scanning Noise Problem
Why GitHub Finally Fixed the Secret Scanning Noise Problem Secret scanning sounds simple on paper. You push code, GitHub checks for leaked API keys and passwords, and you get an alert when…
Stop Typing Passwords Into GitHub Forever
Stop Typing Passwords Into GitHub Forever I had a small heart attack last month when a coworker screenshared a terminal session and a personal access token scrolled past in plaintext. The token…
GitHub Quietly Released the Most Useful Dataset Nobody Asked For
GitHub Quietly Released the Most Useful Dataset Nobody Asked For Most AI training data treats language as an afterthought. You grab a corpus, strip out anything that looks foreign, and hope the…