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Announcing General Availability of GitHub Copilot for Azure—Now with Agent Mode | All things Azure Unlocking a New DevOps Era GitHub Copilot for Azure was first introduced at Ignite 2024 as a public preview, empowering developers, IT operators, and

🚀 GitHub Copilot for Azure is now GA — and it’s got Agent Mode! 🤖⚡

🧠 Ask Azure questions in plain English
🛠️ Get CLI commands, ARM templates, and more
🧪 Learn as you build — it’s like pair programming with the cloud

Try it now 👉 devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-a...

VS Code: Open Source AI Editor We will open source the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. It’s the next step towards making VS Code an open source AI editor.

Big step forward: GitHub Copilot Chat is going open source under MIT.

The Copilot Chat extension is being broken into core AI features that will live inside VS Code.

More transparency. More contributions. A real open source AI editor.

Open dev > closed dev.
code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/0...

2 hour stream tomorrow!

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I upgraded to the new version and they’re so much improved. Still great at hearing surroundings. But volume and sounds quality are much better. Love these for running.

Man running across finish line on a sunny day with people crossing behind.

Enjoyed the Celebration half marathon - finally getting out of the 30s in the mornings!

There’s dozens of AI models, vector databases, and libraries to communicate with AI. And every week there’s a new one. How do you keep up?

Easy - don’t!

Instead, pick one and get your work done. If you later found there was a better option, learn and move forward.

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Announcing GitHub Copilot Free!

A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in VS Code.

No trial. No subscription. No credit card required.

Learn more in our blog: aka.ms/copilot-free

Get started with the all-new free plan for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in VS Code.

All you need is a GitHub account, and you'll have access to:
✨ 2000 code completions per month
✨ 50 chat messages per month
✨ Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o

aka.ms/copilot-free

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I'm doing a stream takeover on the @vscode.dev channels! that's an exciting new launch coming, and my friends @cassidoo.co, @jherr.dev, and @shaundai.com are going to help me build something festive from scratch 🎄

see you there!

Disney world castle light up for the holiday season at night. Castle towers are blue Andre castle is gold and blue hues.

Beautiful castle at Disney world for the holidays. So peaceful at night too.

Kickstart projects with azd Templates Navigating today’s software development challenges requires streamlined tools and frameworks. The Azure Developer CLI (azd) simplifies provisioning and...

Are you looking to accelerate & automate provisions and deployments on Azure with Infrastructure as Code assets?

Check out awesome-azd template gallery for e2e starter code for project PoC's, with reusable configuration files, that you can deploy in one-click and customize 👉🏽 aka.ms/projects-wit...

Subject as a service or if I have room to explore and tweak, signals as a service.

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky!

This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br.

Here's our guide for how to do this:

Welcome @danwahlin.bsky.social !

How to set your domain as your handle Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.

time to dust off that domain you've been hoarding for years and set it as your handle. easy tutorial up on our blog now!

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

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My notifications badge seems to have hallucinations

Let Copilot help you get unstuck on code by telling it what you are looking to do, and let it suggest code for you. Learn more at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/introduction-to-github-copilot/?WT.mc_id=academic-89418-sagibbon [eventID:19083] Use Copilot to write a function that fetches images for you

Have you tried GitHub Copilot? Here’s a quick glimpse at what you can do, in less than 60s.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6s8qa9Kl5-s?feature=share

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We’re hiring Go and Typescript devs btw. Things are crazy over here, apply if you want to:

- write a lot of code
- ship fast
- juggle protocol and product
- be an agentic player on a small tight-knit team
- create this thing with us

Hello there! 👋

I’m a Disney fan, storyteller 📖, runner 🏃 , Catholic, and I work at Microsoft in Developer Relations. I love the web, AI, and making great customer experiences ❤️.

Hoping for a better Twitter alternative, just like y’all.

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