Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days. It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Go...

A large-scale malware distribution campaign on GitHub has been identified, involving 10,000 repositories that distribute Trojan malware. These repositories originate from different contributors and share a common pattern, enabling the creation of a script to find them.

Microsoft is adding Amazon Web Services capacity to GitHub to manage increased coding activity driven by AI advancements. This decision deviates from the original strategy of fully integrating GitHub's infrastructure with Microsoft's Azure cloud.

Ponytail integrates a senior developer's mindset into AI agents, enabling them to significantly reduce code complexity by writing one line instead of fifty. This results in 80-94% less code, 3-6 times faster execution, and 47-77% cost savings.

GitHub Copilot app provides a unified desktop experience for agent-driven development, allowing users to manage issues and pull requests directly within the app. Users with Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, or Enterprise subscriptions can install the app immediately, while others can join a waitlist for future access.

GitHub is currently experiencing downtime, highlighting ongoing issues with its reliability, security, and performance. This situation reflects broader infrastructural decay within GitHub and the larger tech software services sector.

Microsoft's GitHub has banned security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse after they posted zero-day Windows exploits. The researcher claims this action has ruined their life and has promised further retaliation against the company.

Malware was found in GitHub repositories, prompting a user to seek advice from AI, which provided unhelpful responses. Subsequent comments in a GitHub discussion echoed the AI's answers, leading to a call-out and deletion of a comment.

GitHub's performance has declined significantly since its acquisition by Microsoft, with users reporting frequent issues and a concerning uptime status. The platform is perceived as less appealing, leading to frustration among regular users.

Red Squares is a satirical graph that uses red squares to track outages on GitHub.com, contrasting with the traditional green squares that represent code commits. The visual representation highlights the frequency and duration of platform downtime.