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• github-copilot·September 15, 2026· 14 min read

  Half a day of length of stay is worth 26 beds

  I learned ML on Octave because I had no MATLAB licence. Twenty years on, it runs hospital bed capacity and NEWS2 early warning from a Copilot canvas.

• github-copilot·September 10, 2026· 16 min read

  Five models ran one turn, and I wanted to see all five

  HydraFusion returns one answer and one credit number. I built a Grafana dashboard from the Copilot CLI session log to see every model it ran.

• github-copilot·August 29, 2026· 11 min read

  I stopped asking Copilot to write SSIS XML

  Instead of asking Copilot to write .dtsx XML, I gave it the SSIS managed object model, so it generates packages I can actually validate and review.

• github-copilot·August 3, 2026· 16 min read

  Well formed is not the same as safe to build

  A green test suite hid eight FHIR R4 violations, including a patient SSN in a free-text field. Here is the Copilot skill I wrote to catch them in review.

• github-copilot·July 13, 2026· 6 min read

  The setup doc that turned into a VS Code pull request

  Writing a setup doc about Copilot plugin marketplaces led me to a VS Code pull request adding an Add Marketplace option to the extensions UI.

• github-copilot·July 7, 2026· 8 min read

  Cardiac Digital Twin: Driving a Simulink Model With GitHub Copilot in Eight Prompts

  Driving a Simulink cardiac model from GitHub Copilot in eight prompts, using the MATLAB Simulink Agentic Toolkit MCP server as the bridge.

• github-copilot·July 2, 2026· 8 min read

  Watching Copilot's Prompt Cache with OpenTelemetry and Grafana

  Exporting GitHub Copilot prompt cache metrics with OpenTelemetry and charting them in Grafana, so a platform team can see cache behavior fleet-wide.

• github-copilot·June 17, 2026· 11 min read

  Customer Demo: Agentic Workflow Reviewing Next.js Bundle Budgets and Updating PRs

  An agentic workflow that watches Next.js bundle budgets, catches regressions in CI, and comments the analysis straight onto the pull request.

• github-copilot·May 28, 2026· 9 min read

  Adding Local Weather to My GitHub Copilot CLI Statusline

  Adding local weather to the GitHub Copilot CLI statusline with a small script, and what building it taught me about customizing the CLI.

• github-copilot·April 20, 2026· 8 min read

  Oracle to T-SQL Migration Toolkit: Custom Agents, Parallel Pipelines, and a Rubber Duck

  An open-source Oracle to T-SQL migration toolkit built on GitHub Copilot custom agents, parallel conversion pipelines, and a rubber duck review step.

• github-copilot·April 2, 2026· 6 min read

  Camel Healthcare Data Hub: From Whiteboard to Working Code in One Session

  From a whiteboard at a Microsoft Innovation Hub session to a working Apache Camel healthcare data hub, built with GitHub Copilot in one sitting.

• github-copilot·March 8, 2026· 4 min read

  Skills Hub Updates: Security Scanning, CLI Installation, and skillshub.space Launch

  Skills Hub grew from 51 to 225 skills, so I added security scanning, a CLI installer, and moved the catalog to its own skillshub.space domain.

• github·February 15, 2026· 7 min read

  i18nOps: Translating My Site with GitHub Agentic Workflows

  How I translated this site into Portuguese with GitHub Agentic Workflows, using a glossary and Jekyll Polyglot to keep both languages in sync.

• github·February 13, 2026· 20 min read

  Building My First Agentic Workflow: A Documentation Sync Agent with GitHub Agentic Workflows

  What I learned building a documentation sync agent with GitHub Agentic Workflows, where the pipeline reasons about changes instead of just running steps.

• github-copilot·February 6, 2026· 11 min read

  Skills Hub: A Curated Catalog for Discovering and Installing AI Coding Skills

  Skills Hub is a curated catalog for finding, comparing, and installing GitHub Copilot skills that otherwise stay scattered across repositories.

• mcp·February 2, 2026· 11 min read

  Copilot Compass: Navigate Your GitHub Copilot Adoption with Actionable Insights

  Copilot Compass turns the raw GitHub Copilot usage APIs into adoption insights, showing seat activity and engagement trends as an MCP app.

• mcp·January 28, 2026· 9 min read

  Building an MCP App with Interactive Charts for VS Code

  Building a Model Context Protocol app that renders interactive charts inside VS Code, with the entire codebase generated by GitHub Copilot.

• azure·January 25, 2026· 6 min read

  HealthTranscribe: AI-Powered Medical Transcription with Azure

  An enterprise-grade healthcare transcription platform that transforms medical audio into structured clinical data using Azure AI Services.

• github-copilot·November 8, 2025· 6 min read

  Introducing Copilot Agent Designer: A Visual Workflow for GitHub Copilot Agents

  A visual workflow builder for GitHub Copilot agents: design agent definitions and handoffs on a canvas instead of hand-editing config files.

• github·October 20, 2025· 5 min read

  Automating Resume Builds with GitHub Actions

  How I set up GitHub Actions to compile my LaTeX resume and commit the PDF automatically, so one source edit keeps everything in sync.

• vscode·October 16, 2025· 4 min read

  Level Up Your VS Code Speed with Keyboard Shortcuts

  The VS Code shortcuts I actually use every day, including the Copilot chat and inline chat keybindings that changed how I move around the editor.