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GitHub Digest

We have a whole bunch of GitHub news for you today, so let’s look at the first one: GitHub Models!

Want to experiment with AI models, play with different types, and test different prompts? It is not always obvious how to get access to the different AI models, let alone, how to get to use them in production.

With GitHub Models, you can get access to a library of different AI models so everybody can become an AI engineer.

You can play around, experiment, and test directly within GitHub using CodeSpaces and Visual Studio Code, and when ready, use the models in the Azure AI environment.

Currently still a private beta, but you can sign up to get access.

With all the different options (business or enterprise) and levels (org or enterprise), it was hard to manage this easily. With the new beta for Copilot Enterprise Mixed Licensing, an Enterprise Admin gets more flexibility in license management.

When you use GitHub Actions, you are burning minutes (based on the machines being used, e.g. Windows build agents are twice as expensive compared to Linux).

As an average developer, you might not care, but having insights can help you optimize your pipelines. Not only saving money but also time.

Only available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud users.

Workflows can be used for so many things; you can kick off a build when new code is pushed, run automation on a schedule, or use the workflow_dispatch event to manually start a workflow and even collect some inputs.

I’m using this functionality with a lot of customers; you get a simple form, script your code, and even have an audit trail and source control. It helps automate simple tasks such as restarting a server.

And even with the mobile application, you can now trigger these kinds of workflows on the go.

This article highlights the fact that GitHub was missing, or actually any source control system.

An Indie game studio found out that a game they developed years ago had no source code anymore. There were no backups, git etc, so no way to service the game anymore.

They decided to unlist the game from the Steam platform. Hopefully, they have their new games in a better state, but it highlights that the development cycle needs love too.

The new GPT-4o model is much faster, so it was only a matter of time before GitHub switched to this model in their Copilot Chat and summarization system.

Available for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Rider.

Do you have a GitHub profile with a custom readme? If not, then create one. But if you do, run it through the profile roast and get some honest feedback 😀 

Coding Corner

Imagine opening a cabinet and finding 700 GPUs doing nothing for years. That is really burning money!

If you have been as active as Adrian Cockcroft and been involved with Amazon, Netflix, etc, then it would be something to access his knowledge using an LLM. Adrian did the groundwork for it already by collecting his knowledge.

.NET Nook

Want to start an async task, but need it to consider a timeout? So either complete or return within x seconds? It is not that complicated to build, so Rick Strahl created an extension for it.

But did you know that in .NET 8 there is a native implementation for this timeout functionality?

Health checks are part of frameworks like Aspire, but they have been available for some while in ASP.NET. Khalid shows how you can call them and implement your own checks.

Number 13 this time, a new version of C# will be available with .NET 9, so new features will become available. Read up on the new lock or params keywords.

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