5 podcast episodes to help you build with confidence in 2026
Looking ahead to the New Year? These GitHub Podcast episodes help you cut through the noise and build with more confidence across AI, open source, and developer tools.
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This year’s most influential open source projects
From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort.
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The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)
We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
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Let’s talk about GitHub Actions
A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.
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GitHub Availability Report: November 2025
In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents
MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here’s how that will affect developers.
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Speed is nothing without control: How to keep quality high in the AI era
AI can help you build faster than ever, but it can also produce bugs, issues, and problems. Use these strategies to keep your speed without losing control of your code.
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This year’s most influential open source projects
From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort.
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Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
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How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories
Learn how to write effective agents.md files for GitHub Copilot with practical tips, real examples, and templates from analyzing 2,500+ repositories.
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Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
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The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era
Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development—shifting from code producers to strategic orchestrators—through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.
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Your stack, your rules: Introducing custom agents in GitHub Copilot for observability, IaC, and security
Use partner-built Copilot agents to debug, secure, and automate engineering workflows across your terminal, editor, and github.com.
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The ultimate gift guide for the developer in your life
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
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Why developers still flock to Python: Guido van Rossum on readability, AI, and the future of programming
Discover how Python changed developer culture—and see why it keeps evolving.
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Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
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GitHub Availability Report: October 2025
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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