Damian Brady 🥑 🏠

Dev Advocate 🥑 at @github. DevOps and MLOps. Ex. @Microsoft. {He/Him} Also and

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

Ok, it's time.

Next week, I start on the Developer Relations team at @github! 🎉

I love the product(s) and I love the people, so I can't wait to get started! It's actually been hard taking a break 😊

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

After 4 years at @Microsoft on the @AzureAdvocates team, today is my last day.

I've LOVED 💕 this job.
I've travelled the world 🌎,
learned SO much 📚,
and have met countless incredible people 👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏾.

I'm taking a few weeks off to rest and recharge, then the next thing 😀

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

QLD Government ads bragging about how they’re changing laws to get dangerous e-bikes and scooters off the roads.

Proceeds to show nothing but footage of things that were ALREADY illegal with no law changes.

I mean, maybe just enforce the existing laws?

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

I’ve been using #GitHubCopilot for years now, and I’ve spent so much time looking at what models to choose in what circumstances.

I think I’ve got a good handle on which to choose for different types of work.

And… just use Auto.

It’s cheaper and usually better at deciding than me.

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

Every time I go out for a bike ride I make sure I have my Medicare card with me in case I crash and that’s sensible actually not pessimistic.

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

I love this so much

[Cameron Foxly @CameronFoxly]

In the age of AI slop, some of us are still making things by hand, I promise ❤️ Octocat for the new GitHub Copilot App was modeled, rigged, and animated in Blender...

[GitHub @github]

Cooking up something new 🧑‍🍳

Join the waitlist for early access to technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app 👇
https://t.co/ODODKdvzOA

[Martin Woodward @martinwoodward]

I can confirm that this was a mistake on our side - there were no ad arrangements with any company. We do not had ads on GitHub and we do not plan to add advertising to GitHub.

What happened is we'd previously included Copilot Coding agent product tips including the ones you mention in PR's created by the Copilot agent. These tips were originally meant to only show up in PRs created by Copilot to help developers get more out of the agent and have been around since last year. But a bug introduced on March 24th also caused them to also appear in human-created PRs when someone mentioned Copilot and asked it to make changes.

We have fixed it on our side and turned off all product tips in PR's wherever they get created. Apologies

More details: https://t.co/PimNi83M8l

[GitHub @github]

The standard libraries already include π. But where’s the fun in that?
Happy #PiDay! 🍕

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

@blackgirlbytes @dianasoyster @EntireHQ Congratulations!!
They’re really lucky to have you!

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

Oh genuinely sad. 😢

[AFL @AFL]

Revered AFL commentator Dennis Cometti has passed away aged 76.

Known for his dry wit and inspired turn of phrase, Cometti retired in 2021 after a career that spanned 51 years and countless iconic one-liners.

Vale, Dennis.

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

@Tim_Purcell @richcampbell I first experimented with this using @LangChain.
It’s also useful for redirecting to tools when an LLM is not the right choice. I.e. math or recent data.

Of course many systems (like Copilot) do a lot of this for you these days.

[Richard Campbell @richcampbell]

It's always been challenging to make reliable software - is AI making it worse or better?

@damovisa talks on .NET Rocks at https://t.co/RCGIo5Ji4Y about leveraging the strengths of LLMs to make better quality software!

[Richard Campbell @richcampbell]

Can AI tooling help improve code quality?

@damovisa talks on DotNetRocks at https://t.co/RCGIo5Ji4Y about using LLMs to analyze code for quality and make improvements - leveraging the strength of the tools!

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

@slace

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

I’m speaking at NDC Sydney!
Early bird tickets are still available for one more day.

https://t.co/D1tLcNQTdJ

[Heather Downing @quorralyne]

Watching the great @damovisa give the opening keynote at #NDCLondon on the dangers of mostly working software.

[NDC Conferences @NDC_Conferences]

Don't miss @damovisa 's opening #keynote at #NDCLondon next week! See the full agenda and secure your tickets at https://t.co/uMwFJfGFUw 🇬🇧

[Lars Klint | 🚜🥑📹 @larsklint]

On 9 January 2026 mine and my family's lives changed forever. Our farm in the Australian country was almost destroyed by bushfires. We evacuated and are all well, but the farm as we know it is gone.

I tell the full story in this video: https://t.co/z1hfa31FN9

If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, support us through GoFundMe (link below), share the video, leave a comment or anything else. We need all the positive we can get right now ♥️

Support us here: https://t.co/PVqUC4yvQ6

[NDC Conferences @NDC_Conferences]

#Software used to be predictable. You could trace the logic, reason about behaviour, and prove the results. Don't miss @damovisa "Keynote: The dangers of probably-working software" at #NDCLondon!

https://t.co/WknJWClo9Z

[GitHub @github]

We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.

1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.

2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.

We have real costs in running the Actions control plane. We are also making investments into self-hosted runners so they work at scale in customer environments, particularly for complex enterprise scenarios. While this context matters, we missed the mark with this change by not including more of you in our planning.

We need to improve GitHub Actions. We’re taking more time to meet and listen closely to developers, customers, and partners to start. We’ve also opened a discussion to collect more direct feedback and will use that feedback to inform the GitHub Actions roadmap. We’re working hard to earn your trust through consistent delivery across GitHub Actions and the entire platform.

[Damian Brady 🥑 🏠 @damovisa]

@wesbos @pierceboggan It was https://t.co/ugiRUqXrb3