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Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build our way into 2026!

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build our way into 2026!

2025-12-18 GitHub

Chris builds a New Year countdown app from scratch using Vite, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, leveraging GitHub Copilot's Plan agent for iterative requirements and a custom UI Performance Specialist agent. The stream covers adding time zone support with a world map, a fireworks celebration theme using fireworks.js, and a test-driven development approach.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build down tech debt

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build down tech debt

2025-12-11 GitHub

Chris reviews the latest GitHub changelog including CodeQL updates, GPT-5.1 Codex Max preview, GitHub MCP server tool-specific configuration, and Enterprise Server 3.19 GA. He then explores the major VS Code December release featuring Agent HQ, background agents with git worktrees, sub-agents, and custom agents for organizations, while continuing to build custom agents for a game MCP server project.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Time to build!

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Time to build!

2025-09-04 GitHub

In this live stream, we explore building a 3D tic-tac-toe visualization using Three.js and Copilot coding agent, demo MCP elicitation for gathering game preferences, and discuss the importance of context engineering when working with AI tools. We also cover GitHub changelog highlights including path-scoped custom instructions for Copilot code review and agents.md support.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's keep building!

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's keep building!

2025-08-28 GitHub

In this live stream, we recap the MCP server elicitation feature and then dive into GitHub Actions fundamentals — building workflows from scratch, covering triggers, jobs, dependencies with needs, matrix builds for cross-platform testing, and workflow_dispatch for manual runs. We also walk through a packed GitHub changelog covering ARM64 runners, GPT-5 in GitHub Models, immutable releases, and GitHub MCP server secret scanning.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a turn-based-game MCP server

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a turn-based-game MCP server

2025-08-07 GitHub

In this live stream, we continue building a turn-based game MCP server, implementing MCP elicitation to gather user preferences and consolidating duplicate tool calls into cleaner abstractions. We also recap the latest GitHub changelog including npm trusted publishing with OIDC, Claude Opus 4.1, and Copilot coding agent updates.

Github-Informatiker verrät seine 4 besten KI-Prompts

Github-Informatiker verrät seine 4 besten KI-Prompts

2025-07-22

Featured in Gründerszene/Business Insider Germany discussing my daily use of AI tools for productivity, focusing on the prompts I use to automate repetitive tasks.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build

2025-07-03 GitHub

In this stream, Chris catches up on several weeks of GitHub updates including the remote MCP server preview and Copilot coding agent for business users. The live coding session demonstrates adding internationalization to the Copilot Airways app using Copilot coding agent, custom VS Code chat modes for planning, and agent mode in Xcode for iOS development.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Copilot coding agent and Copilot agent mode

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Copilot coding agent and Copilot agent mode

2025-06-05 GitHub

In this stream, Chris recaps announcements from Microsoft Build, reviews three weeks of GitHub changelog updates, and does a deep dive into Copilot coding agent using the Copilot Airways demo app. Topics include assigning issues to Copilot, reviewing AI-generated pull requests, MCP integration with Notion, and best practices for writing well-scoped GitHub issues.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building from requirements with Agent Mode

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building from requirements with Agent Mode

2025-05-15 GitHub

In this stream, Chris builds a GitHub CLI extension (gh-demo) in Go from scratch using a spec-driven development approach with Copilot Agent Mode. Topics include bootstrapping a VS Code workspace with Copilot, test-driven development for a hydrate subcommand, and setting up GitHub Actions CI.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building with Agent Mode and MCP

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building with Agent Mode and MCP

2025-04-17 GitHub

A model-packed week — Chris walks through new releases including GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, O3, O4 mini, and Meta Llama 4 in Copilot and GitHub Models. He demos the strategy trend radar app, tries the new Codespaces agent mode button, and builds a GitHub Actions workflow that summarizes the changelog into a newsletter using GitHub Models.