For more on this topic, check out Alexis Lucio, Catherine McNally, and Lindsey Wild‘s axe-con 2024 talk, “Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem,” which laid the foundation for this blog post. Free registration required. Laying the foundation In today’s digital world, accessibility isn’t merely a checkbox—it’s the cornerstone...

The world of software development is constantly evolving. That means whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out on your coding journey, there’s always something new to learn. Below, we’ll explore five actionable tips to take your career to the next level. From mastering prompt engineering to harnessing the power of AI for code security,...

Software is a funny, profound thing: each piece of it is an invisible machine, seemingly made of magic words, designed to run on the ultimate, universal machine. It’s not alive, but it has a lifecycle. It starts out as source code—just text files, sitting in a repository somewhere—and then later (through some unique process) that source gets built...

The open source Git project just released Git 2.45 with features and bug fixes from over 96 contributors, 38 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.44 was released. To celebrate this most recent release, here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. Preliminary...

We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace–where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language. Sign up here. In the past two years, generative AI has foundationally changed the developer landscape largely as a tool embedded inside the developer environment. In 2022, we launched...

I’ve written a bit in the past about static analysis (CodeQL zero to hero part 1: Fundamentals of static analysis) and basics of writing CodeQL queries (CodeQL zero to hero part 2: Getting started with CodeQL). Today, I want to dig deeper about CodeQL and talk about variant analysis, writing a taint tracking query and various techniques for doing...