GitHub & Developer Tools

7+ hour, 24+ min ago   (891+ words) TL;DR: GitHub login in my Expo app broke three separate times. A deep link that went nowhere. A PKCE flow I wired backwards. A redirect URL with a typo. Each fix is copy-pasteable below. Total auth code is under…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (303+ words) Published on September 10, 2026 Copilot Chat is coming directly to Outlook’s email composer, giving users a new way to get AI help while writing messages without leaving the draft. Microsoft plans to add an inline Copilot Chat experience to Outlook on…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (279+ words) Published on September 10, 2026 Microsoft previously halted the Copilot Domain Exclusion rollout, but the company has now resumed the rollout of Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The feature targets IT administrators who want tighter control over the public web content Copilot…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (513+ words) Your CI job needs to reach something private — a staging database in a VPC, an internal registry, a deploy target behind a firewall. The usual answers are bad: whitelist GitHub's entire runner IP range, or run a self-hosted runner just…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (174+ words) High speed private VPN protected by strong Swiss privacy laws NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like open-source operating system. It supports a broad range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktops to handheld and embedded…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1706+ words) I built a push-indexing prototype in rural Russia. Microsoft said no. Two decades later, the industry built it. In October 1998, an envelope from Redmond, Washington, landed in my mailbox in Velikiye Luki. Inside was a five-line letter: "Although your submission…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (353+ words) Microsoft is no stranger to self-promotion, and there have been multiple instances of Windows 11 being used as a vehicle to advertise or promote other products and services made by the company. The built-in search tool is an example, with many…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (423+ words) Threat actors are impersonating web crawlers associated with OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Amazon, and other major brands to probe websites for exposed credentials, cloud keys, and private configuration files. GreyNoise researchers observed the automated scanning activity between late July and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (329+ words) Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Windows 11 Search experience that allows users to remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions. New controls under Settings > Privacy & security > Search allow users to disable web results while retaining Microsoft Store recommendations, or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (781+ words) Microsoft has built a Windows app for something that sounds almost too trivial to need an app: asking whether you want Bing to become your default search engine. The catch is in how that question is presented. The option to…...