Rubber Duck Thursdays - Tic, Tac, Toe
In this episode, the team continues building the gh-game GitHub CLI extension by adding a Tic Tac Toe game written in Go. The stream kicks off with a demo of GitHub Spark, a GitHub Next experiment for creating micro apps from natural language prompts, followed by a walkthrough of the latest GitHub changelog updates including Gemini 2.0 Flash availability, Copilot Vision, and Agent Mode in VS Code Insiders.
The main coding session uses GitHub Copilot Agent Mode, Copilot Chat, and Copilot Edits to scaffold and iterate on the Tic Tac Toe implementation. Along the way, CodeQL code scanning is enabled on the repository, catching issues with missing workflow permissions and unpinned GitHub Actions versions. The episode also covers the CI/CD pipeline setup with build and test steps in GitHub Actions, and improving code readability through Copilot-assisted refactoring.
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