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Welcome back, tech enthusiasts!

Hope you had a relaxing Easter break! This week’s edition brings another round of updates, tools, and insights to keep your dev game sharp. From new Copilot capabilities to GitHub issue automation and FinOps improvements—there’s plenty to dig into.

• 🧩 Create GitHub issue hierarchies with the API

• 🧠 GPT-4.1 now available in GitHub Copilot

• 🔗 Share Copilot Chat sessions with a link

• 🐳 Run Azure SQL locally on macOS with Docker

• 📢 FinOps Toolkit adds alerting features

• 🔐 OAuth2 client assertions in ASP.NET Core

• ⚙ Extend the Aspire Dashboard with custom commands

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GitHub Digest

Want to make use of the new hierarchical issues in GitHub? From the UI, this is easy, but not so from the command line. Jesse Houwing presents a solution using the GraphQL endpoints:

More and more choices, it is becoming harder to understand which to use. But OpenAI GPT 4.1 is now also available for GitHub Copilot. The larger token size means more context can be submitted, providing more details to the model to give you the best answer.

You no longer need to copy/paste the output of a Copilot chat before you can send it to somebody else. Now you can use the Share conversation options, which will return you a unique link pointing back to the conversation. Ideal to share something that you just reasoned about and discussed with a model.

Coding Corner

Been there, not done that; I was a Windows user for many years, but switched to the Mac a couple of years back. Of course, you do miss some tools, like SQL Server Management Studio. You can use Visual Studio Code or Azure Data Explorer (which will be retired BTW), but here are some other tips:

Although I primarily use GitHub nowadays, I worked with Azure DevOps as well. It is certainly alive and kicking, with new updates still being released:

Azure Updates & Insights

Did you know I also share Azure FinOps tips and tricks in my other newsletter? I have a passion for FinOps, so I like to share that there is a new release of the FinOps toolkit.

An interesting new feature: alerting. Inform developers about optimizations, or even better, automatically perform the optimization for them (with some approval/checks).

.NET Nook

Learn more about the Client Credentials flows in OAuth2 with these examples.

The Aspire dashboard already provides a wealth of information for your local development; it connects your various applications and dependencies together, consolidates all the logs and metrics, and even makes a map of the dependencies.

But did you know you can add your own custom command as well? Like resetting your database, or running a migration? Read more on how to customize the dashboard and add the plumbing to your code.

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