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🔭 Main Branch: The One Where Defaults Stop Being Blind Spot - Issue #36

Aug 17, 2026

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🔭 Main Branch: The One Where Defaults Stop Being Blind Spot - Issue #36

Three things shipped this stretch that all come down to the same idea: control over defaults.

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Main Branch: The One Where the Giant PR Gets Broken Up 🥞 - Issue #35

Aug 9, 2026

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3 min read

Main Branch: The One Where the Giant PR Gets Broken Up 🥞 - Issue #35

Stacked pull requests, Dependabot branch names, and benchmarking AGENTS.md files

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Main Branch: The One Where You See the Bill Before It Arrives 💸 - Issue #27

May 18, 2026

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Main Branch: The One Where You See the Bill Before It Arrives 💸 - Issue #27

Copilot usage-based billing prep, April reports, Dependabot cross-org access

Andrea Griffiths

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The One Where Your Tokens Have a Price Tag - Issue #25 🤑

May 2, 2026

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2 min read

The One Where Your Tokens Have a Price Tag - Issue #25 🤑

GitHub Copilot is switching to usage-based billing. Here's what changes, what stays free, and how to keep your spend in check.

Andrea Griffiths

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🏪 The one where GitHub becomes an App Store - Issue #23

Apr 19, 2026

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🏪 The one where GitHub becomes an App Store - Issue #23

GitHub fixed the SBOM timeout nobody talks about, gh skill shipped with a warning I think you should read, and I gave a talk in Chile that reminded me why I do this.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🔐 The One Where Your Credentials Stop Living in .env - Issue #22

Apr 13, 2026

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🔐 The One Where Your Credentials Stop Living in .env - Issue #22

Code scanning batch fixes + npm trusted publishing on CircleCI — and a question about management I can't stop thinking about.

Andrea Griffiths

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🥊 Main Branch: The One Where Actions Stops Fighting You 🛠️- Issue #19

Mar 22, 2026

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🥊 Main Branch: The One Where Actions Stops Fighting You 🛠️- Issue #19

Environments without fake deploys, cron jobs in your actual timezone.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🗂️ The One Where GitHub Finally Remembered Where It Put Everything - Issue #17

Mar 9, 2026

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5 min read

🗂️ The One Where GitHub Finally Remembered Where It Put Everything - Issue #17

Repository Dashboard, required reviewers, and Projects hierarchy. The features you didn't know you were waiting for.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🚰 The One Where Plumbing Got Fixed - Issue #16

Mar 1, 2026

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🚰 The One Where Plumbing Got Fixed - Issue #16

Two fixes for friction you stopped complaining about because you assumed it'd never change.

Andrea Griffiths

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🚗 Main Branch: The One Where Agents Learned to Drive - Issue #15

Feb 23, 2026

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5 min read

🚗 Main Branch: The One Where Agents Learned to Drive - Issue #15

GitHub Agentic Workflows, Copilot in Zed, and the free-tier tools quietly running half my stack.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🦞 Main Branch: The One Where the Lobster Gets Loose - Issue #14

Feb 16, 2026

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5 min read

🦞 Main Branch: The One Where the Lobster Gets Loose - Issue #14

196k GitHub stars in 60 days. 5,700 community skills. One bot that publicly shamed a maintainer. Let's talk about OpenClaw.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🧠 Main Branch: The One Where Issues Made the Playoffs - Issue #13

Feb 9, 2026

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4 min read

🧠 Main Branch: The One Where Issues Made the Playoffs - Issue #13

Pinned comments, semantic search, and a git alias you'll use every day

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🏎️ Main Branch: The One Where Everything Gets Faster - Issue #11

Jan 26, 2026

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🏎️ Main Branch: The One Where Everything Gets Faster - Issue #11

35% of issues now load in under 200ms. Plus: the Files Changed update you've been waiting for.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

👩🏽‍🚀 Main Branch: The One About Intentional Architecture - Issue #10

Jan 19, 2026

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4 min read

👩🏽‍🚀 Main Branch: The One About Intentional Architecture - Issue #10

Cloudflare acquired Astro. Here's why the design philosophy matters more than the ownership.

Andrea Griffiths

Open-source

🔭 Main Branch: The One Where Defaults Stop Being Blind Spot - Issue #36

Main Branch: The One Where the Giant PR Gets Broken Up 🥞 - Issue #35

Main Branch: The One Where You See the Bill Before It Arrives 💸 - Issue #27

The One Where Your Tokens Have a Price Tag - Issue #25 🤑

🏪 The one where GitHub becomes an App Store - Issue #23

🔐 The One Where Your Credentials Stop Living in .env - Issue #22

🥊 Main Branch: The One Where Actions Stops Fighting You 🛠️- Issue #19

🗂️ The One Where GitHub Finally Remembered Where It Put Everything - Issue #17

🚰 The One Where Plumbing Got Fixed - Issue #16

🚗 Main Branch: The One Where Agents Learned to Drive - Issue #15

🦞 Main Branch: The One Where the Lobster Gets Loose - Issue #14

🧠 Main Branch: The One Where Issues Made the Playoffs - Issue #13

🏎️ Main Branch: The One Where Everything Gets Faster - Issue #11

👩🏽‍🚀 Main Branch: The One About Intentional Architecture - Issue #10

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