Nathan Nellans

GitHub Copilot can be used in many different ways (copilot chat, copilot coding agent, copilot code review, etc.). It can also be used in many different applications (GitHub.com, VS Code, Visual Studio, etc.). Finally, there are many ways to customize how Copilot works (repository instructions, path instructions, custom agents, etc.). The goal of this post will be to break down the various different methods of customizing Copilot's behavior and explaining when and where eac

GitHub-hosted Runners have a few key advantages over self-hosted runners. Things like Operating System updates, security patches, and...

If you haven't already, please check out the previous parts of this series. Part 1 - All about Bicep & Deploying Bicep Files   Part 2 -...

In this blog post, I would like to discuss all of the latest features with GitHub Copilot. The feature list is constantly changing: Some features are in Public Preview. Further, some preview features are locked behind waitlists Some features are Generally Available (GA) Some features are only available to specific Copilot subscription levels Some features are only available in your IDE with the proper extensions or plugins installed. Further, some features are only availab

I'd like to start this post by discussing some history. Before GitHub Actions there was Azure DevOps Pipelines, which has awesome...

GitHub Packages supports multiple different types of package registries. In this post, I will be discussing the package registry for...

Lately, I have been working on a few projects that use GitHub Action Workflows. In one project, I tried to use a GitHub Workflow to...

First, let's go over some high level basics of GitHub Workflows. Each GitHub Workflow is made up of one or more Jobs. Each Job is made up...

GitHub Advanced Security, or GHAS, is a collection of features and tools to help you maintain secure and high quality code in your GitHub...