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Every developer knows just how important it is to share work with a coworker. If you are working on a critical feature in a crunch, prompt peer reviews and instant feedback can mean the difference between a secure contract and an angry client. So it follows that when the infrastructure we rely on to work […] The post GitHub Alternative List: Quintessential Options appeared first on Atomic Spin.
I’ve been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and opens pull requests to automatically bump them. It’s similar to Dependabot in that it keeps your dependencies up to date. If I had to compare them in one sentence, I’d say Renovate is less integrated in the GitHub ecosystem, but handles more ecosystems and, more importantly, is extensible.
Using The New NPM OIDC Trusted Publishing Workflow At the end of 2025, NPM registry revoked all personal NPM tokens that I used to publish new NPM package releases. This change improves the security of the entire NPM publishing workflow, but has disrupted my CI process. For example, the new feature of cypress-timestamps has not been released, failing with the error "SemanticReleaseError: Invalid npm token.". Hmm, what do we do now? We could use publish to NPM using local npm CLI commands, entering the 2FA token, etc. But I really hate this idea. I have more than 400 NPM packages, so the…
If you are testing a website, the DEV dependencies do not change very often. You might bump Cypress version once in a while, add or upgra
Last month, I became aware of GitHub agentic workflows. I read the site carefully, but the use cases weren’t very exciting to me. I tried the continuous documentation It didn’t work out initially, and because of my lack of involvement, I left it as it was. However, I succeeded in another one that I want to describe in this post. With lessons learned here, I managed to make the documentation workflow work!
I have a problem: I'm addicted to making new repositories on GitHub. As part of my advocacy role at Microsoft, my goal is to show developers how to combine technology X with technology Y, and a repository is a great way to prove it. But that means I now have hundreds of repositories that I am trying to keep working, and they require constant upgrades: Upgraded Python packages, npm packages, GitHub Actions Improved Python tooling (like moving from pip to uv, or black to ruff) Hosted API changes (versions, URLs, deprecations) Infrastructure upgrades (Bicep/Terraform changes) All of those…
Whenever I am teaching Python workshops, tutorials, or classes, I love to use GitHub Codespaces. Any repository on GitHub can be opened inside a GitHub Codespace, which gives the student a full Python environment and a browser-based VS Code. Students spend less time setting up their environment and more time actually coding - the fun part! In this post, I'll walk through my tips for using Codespaces for teaching Python, particularly for classes about web apps, data science, or generative AI. Getting started You can start a GitHub Codespace from any repository. Navigate to the front page of…
I ❤️ when companies offer free tiers for developer services, since it gives everyone a way to learn new technologies without breaking the bank. Free tiers are especially important for students and people between jobs, where the desire to learn is high but the available cash is low. That's why I'm such a fan of GitHub Models: free, high-quality generative AI models available to anyone with a GitHub account. The available models include the latest OpenAI LLMs (like o3-mini), LLMs from the research community (like Phi and Llama), LLMs from other popular providers (like Mistral and Jamba),…
The first step to any code review is understanding what the code does and why. Although the author is by far the most qualified person to…
We used to produce mostly closed source and proprietary software; that’s changed. The post Open Sauce at OpenTable appeared first on OpenTable Technology Blog.