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Accordion Icons: Which Work Best?

A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions. Plus, why the caret is the safest icon choice. You’ll find more [useful guid

Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated

Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision

The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves

How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers. The post How bug bounty sharpens one re

Building Immersive Virtual Economies: An Introduction to KursarScript (KSPL)

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently. The post The bridge to agent-scale Git inf

Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put

Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs. The data says they’re already swapping models in and out, but the tr

How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity

Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased producti

Embracing Playful Imperfection With The CSS `random()` Function

Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how the new CSS `random()` function brings a

Don't forget about the UI for AI

Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the advanta

How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code

Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context. The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared fir

Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide

A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.