Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
One of the easiest mistakes to make with GitHub Copilot Agent Skills is treating them as somewhere to store every useful instruction you have ever written. It usually starts well, you create a Terraform module skill, an Azure architecture skill, a pull request review skill, or a cost optimisation skill. It helps, so you add … Read more
GitHub Copilot Rubber Duck is interesting not because it adds more AI to the workflow, but because it focuses on a more important problem. In agent-driven coding, the real issue is often not generating code, but catching weak assumptions and flawed plans before they spread across larger changes. This post looks at why a second opinion inside GitHub Copilot CLI makes sense, where it could genuinely help, and why review quality matters more than more generation.
After building a growing set of GitHub Copilot skills across areas such as Azure API Management, infrastructure as code authoring, and diagram generation with tools like Excalidraw and Draw.io, I have found that the difference between a skill that is genuinely useful and one that quietly disappoints usually comes down to a small number of … Read more
Terraform provider upgrades often turn into a manual research exercise. You check the registry, read changelogs, scan the codebase for deprecated resources, update the provider version, add moved blocks, run a plan, and hope nothing breaks. Using GitHub Agentic Workflows, a Terraform MCP server, and reusable agents and skills, much of that preparation can be … Read more
Run GitHub Copilot SDK in GitHub Actions to automate tasks in your CI/CD pipeline. Learn how to build a PR review bot with consistent, structured output.
Ever wished you could practice Git commands without the fear of messing up a real repository? That’s exactly what I built – Git Rail Control, an interactive Git training platform that turns version control into a gamified learning experience with a rail operations theme. What is Git Rail Control? Think of it as a flight … Read more
I had the chance to attend GitHub Universe in San Francisco, and wow – what a week. Between the keynote energy, hands-on demos, and meeting the people behind the tools we use every day. In this post, I’ll take you through some of the most exciting highlights, share my take on what they mean for … Read more
If you’ve ever wished your CI/CD pipeline could think for itself, you’re going to like what comes next. GitHub Next recently introduced a research project called Agentic Workflows – a way to embed autonomous AI agents directly into GitHub Actions. These aren’t just scripted automation tasks; they can interpret natural language, reason about problems and adapt to context. … Read more
If you’ve been using GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code, you already know how good it is at answering questions and generating code. But sometimes it feels a little too “one-size-fits-all.” That’s where Custom Chat Modes change the game. With this feature, you can define exactly how Copilot Chat behaves – from its tone … Read more
Learn how to integrate GitHub Models into GitHub workflows to increase AI capabilities of your pipelines.