You can now create GitHub Issues directly from Slack in natural language!
Mention @GitHub in any channel and describe your work, and the app creates structured Issues in your repo (and sub-issues, too).
A local GitHub meetup in Toronto?? Count me in ✨
GitHub Copilot Dev Days - Toronto #1 is April 2nd and I'm so here for it. Demos, lightning talks, snacks, and community. Drop me a line if you'll be there!
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Has mentoring in open source gotten harder?
I wrote up my #FOSDEM talk on the GitHub blog
The core framework: Comprehension, Context, Continuity. Comprehension and Context get you reviewed. Continuity gets you mentored.
github.blog/open-source/...
Full conversation with Mitchell: www.youtube.com/live/0npMvuh...
If this resonates, I tried to turn the same problem into a short, practical FOSDEM talk: tactics maintainers are using to keep mentorship sustainable as volume scales. Recording: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
“AI is destroying my humanity.” @mitchellh.com (HashiCorp; Ghostty, Vouch). From a conversation @helen.blog and I had with him.
Not an anti-AI take. A maintainer capacity take. Creation got cheaper. Review didn’t.
Maintainers: what’s helped you keep mentoring sustainable?
We’re going live in less than an hour 👀
At 3pm ET / 12pm PT, @helen.blog and I will be live with @mitchellh.com, talking about Vouch and what community trust actually looks like in open source.
Hope you can join us.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npM...
"The Synthetic Senior" — my #FOSDEM talk on AI + open source mentorship
The 3 C's for finding contributors worth investing in:
💡 Comprehension
⚙️ Context
🔄 Continuity
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Catch me at FOSDEM in just over an hour in the Community Devroom! Excited to share some thoughts on FOSS mentorship in the age of AI.
We're in UB5.230 -- learn from my mistakes & go through the U courtyard to get in
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Looking for examples: do you know any OSS projects that have thoughtfully updated their contribution process for AI-assisted PRs?
Interested in:
* PR templates asking for intent/reasoning
* Comprehension checks
* Other friction-adding methods
Would love to learn from communities experimenting here
One of my favorite parts of FOSDEM is catching up with maintainers 💜
This year we're adding a Monday morning unconference for maintainers. You bring the topics.
Joining us? Request a spot:
🍕 Sunday Night Social: gh.io/fosdem-2026
☕ Monday Unconference: gh.io/fosdem-2026-...
Building for what lasts. At work, in community, and at home.
My 2025 year in review →
medium.com/@abbycabs/ab...
She wrote a patent about TIME TRAVEL but still keeps developers grounded in reality 🕰️
@angiejones.tech on balancing visionary thinking w/ practical AI: "Everyone wants to be a visionary, but developers are exhausted by the hype."
gh.io/podcast
Mona the Octocat holding a pink heart
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Also: In 2016, Octoverse gave me a mention that lived on my resume for YEARS.
Now I'm in the launch interviews. Still processing 🤯
Better late than never: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV57...
The bit I'm proudest of: "While AI grabs headlines, the real story is 180 million developers collaborating globally"
That feeling when the Octoverse report (featuring your interview!) drops during Universe week and you're too heads-down to share it🤦♀️
Finally watched myself talk about 36M new developers joining GitHub this year.
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Why fun, accessibility, and collaboration are essential to developer learning ➡️ @github.com podcast episode with @cassidoo.co, @jason.energy, @abbycabs.dev, and Andrea youtu.be/YnqJOJ9FzvE?...
AI is full of opportunity — but “AI slop” is real for open source maintainers.
In our chat with @vertedin.de (Electron), I loved this: use these moments to teach contributors — but never at the cost of maintainers’ time or energy.
Open source is as much about people as code.
🎧 gh.io/podcast
Love this @gaprogman.com!
To officially submit this, you need to fill out this quick form -- I left it open for you gh.io/zerotomerged
My Demo Time #ZeroToMergedContest story!
I’m a one-person dev team… but with @github Copilot, Spark, and Actions, it feels like I’ve got a whole team behind me.
👉 Watch how I built Demo Time, a VS Code extension that makes live coding stress-free
#GitHub #VSCode #DevTools
I submitted this earlier today on behalf of the team at projectbluefin.io.
#ZeroToMergedContest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJ5...
My "Habit Sync for @todoist.com" app is about to get a significant update, so here are some "behind the scenes" of what it took.
- 9 major version upgrades of #ReactNative
- Writing my own component library
- Translating #Java to #Kotlin
@github.com #ZeroToMergedContest
My entry for #ZeroToMergedContest, which is about www.nuget.org/packages/Owa...
ever wonder about the story of nuxtbot, the helpful @github.com actions bot that reopens closed issues, asks for reproductions, and spots regressions?
#ZeroToMergedContest
I've recently took the time to read a blog post by @abbycabs.dev about who will maintain the future of open source (github.blog/open-source...)
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Can't wait!!
This is it! #ZeroToMergedContest closes TODAY
We know maintainers are doing incredible things with GitHub tools. Show us how GitHub helped you shorten the path from idea → impact.
2-min video, real stories, huge opportunity. Submit by end of day (anywhere on earth)! 🌍 →
I'm helping run #ZeroToMergedContest bc maintainer stories need to be heard. Every day you're navigating the impossible - shipping at speed while maintaining excellence.
I'll be watching every video! This could land you on the Universe keynote stage.
👉 gh.io/zerotomerged
I’ll be honest and say that the millennial in me has never understood Discord or been able to get embedded in a community there. But the research is pretty clear that gen z tends to gather there!
I know that both MozFest community and open source collective have moved to discord for some examples
