GitHub Advanced Security

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's build down tech debt
GitHubChris 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 - Back to building GitHub CLI Extensions
GitHubIn this episode, Chris reviews the GitHub Changelog covering organization-level Copilot custom instructions, CodeQL for Actions workflow security analysis, Copilot Code Review language expansion, secret scanning alert dismissals, and GitHub Mobile updates. The coding segment tackles theme switching for the Copilot Airways web app and a Tailwind CSS upgrade using GitHub Codespaces and Copilot Agent Mode.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Sshh, let's talk about secrets.
GitHubThis episode dives deep into GitHub Advanced Security's new standalone Secret Protection and Code Security products. Chris demos secret scanning, push protection, custom patterns, and the free secret risk assessment report, then shows off a GitHub-themed brick breaker game powered by real contribution graph data.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Creating a brickbreaker walkthrough
GitHubChris live-codes a GitHub-themed brick breaker walkthrough using Copilot agent mode, demonstrating how prompt framing, context, and custom instructions shape AI-generated output.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Exploring GitHub Models
GitHubChris explores GitHub Models as an AI prototyping playground, demonstrates Copilot on the command line for learning Linux commands, and shows off a Cosmos DB-backed leaderboard for the OctoSnap game.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a scoring system
GitHubChris introduces OctoSnap, a GitHub-themed memory card game built with Next.js, and dives deep into designing a scoring model with Copilot covering difficulty multipliers, time bonuses, and penalty mechanics.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Tic, Tac, Toe
GitHubBuilding a Tic Tac Toe game in Go for the gh-game GitHub CLI extension using GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. Also covers setting up CodeQL code scanning, fixing GitHub Actions workflow permissions, and a demo of GitHub Spark for creating micro apps from natural language prompts.

Transform issues into plans with GitHub Copilot Workspace
GitHubA walkthrough of GitHub Copilot Workspace when starting from a GitHub Issue.

End-to-end InnerSourcing and Secure Development with GitHub
Many of you may be familiar with GitHub for your own Open Source (OSS) projects. But, did you know that you can run your end-to-end development within your organization using GitHub Enterprise? Join Chris for a whistle-stop tour in the day-in-the-life of a developer with GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, showing how you can bring Open Source best practices into your day-to-day work (also known as InnerSource)!

Tech Roundup - May 2022
Your monthly digest covering a packed May 2022 — headlined by Microsoft Build! In this episode, Chris walks through Azure Container Apps going generally available (and why it's one to watch), the limited access preview of Azure OpenAI Service with GPT-3 and Codex models, Azure DNS Private Resolver for hybrid name resolution, Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc GA, NGINX natively integrated on Azure, AKS host process containers in preview, Azure Communication Services Email GA, hierarchical partition keys in Cosmos DB, and much more. Plus GitHub and Azure DevOps highlights from a very busy month for the developer ecosystem.