Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's keep building!
Join us for Rubber Duck Thursdays! A lighthearted and informal stream where we live code on some projects.
In this stream, we recap the turn-based game MCP server and demo the elicitation feature for gathering user preferences, then shift gears into a deep dive on GitHub Actions. Starting from an empty repository, we build workflows from scratch — covering YAML structure, event triggers (issues, issue_comment, push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch), jobs running in parallel, job dependencies using the needs property, conditional steps with if, and matrix strategies for cross-platform builds across multiple OS and Node.js versions.
We also install the VS Code GitHub Actions extension for IntelliSense and syntax highlighting, and discuss CI/CD pipeline patterns including build-test-deploy workflows.
The GitHub changelog recap covers ARM64 hosted runners GA, GPT-5 in GitHub Models, GitHub MCP server secret scanning, immutable releases, Copilot spaces adding entire repos, Grok Code Fast 1, and dependabot Rust toolchain support.
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