Content by jesse houwing (14)

Jesse Houwing summarizes GitHub’s update that GitHub Copilot can now keep inference processing and associated data within US or EU data residency regions, and shows the enterprise/org policy you must enable to restrict Copilot to data-resident models.

Jesse Houwing clarifies GitHub Copilot’s April 24 interaction-data policy change, explaining which subscription tiers may have interactions used for training, what is and isn’t included (like private repos), and practical ways enterprises can enforce license tiers and lock down developer environments.

Jesse Houwing explains why he rebuilt the Azure DevOps Marketplace publishing tasks from v5 to v6, focusing on faster builds, stronger testing, GitHub Actions support, and more secure authentication (OIDC/workload identity) while using GitHub Copilot’s Coding Agent to accelerate the rewrite.

Jesse Houwing introduces the Actions Example Checker, a GitHub Action that validates documentation examples against action.yaml schemas to help developers keep their documentation in sync with actual implementations.

Jesse Houwing shares his journey improving GitHub Actions versioning with the release of 'actions-semver-checker' v2, leveraging Copilot Agent and automated testing to streamline and automate release management.

Jesse Houwing addresses a visibility gap in GitHub Actions security when actions are pinned by SHA. The post details a workflow extension ensuring vulnerabilities are properly surfaced in the Dependency Graph and by Dependabot.

Jesse Houwing examines the nx supply chain attack in detail, explaining how GitHub Actions misconfigurations led to leaked secrets and how to secure CI/CD workflows with actionable security best practices.

Jesse Houwing walks through authenticating maintenance PowerShell scripts to Microsoft Graph in GitHub Actions, using OpenID Connect and Azure CLI, for improved security and automation.

In this post, Jesse Houwing shares advice on choosing the most suitable GitHub Copilot model for large scale code refactoring, comparing GPT-4.5 and GPT-4o with practical recommendations.

Jesse Houwing shows how to create parent-child issue hierarchies (sub-issues) in GitHub by using the GitHub CLI with GraphQL and REST API calls, including the key detail that REST requires the issue’s internal numeric id (not the node_id).

In this post, Jesse Houwing details solutions for managing Node versions to run Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with Visual Studio Code Insiders and Azure Pipelines extensions, sharing practical configurations and troubleshooting insights.

Authored by Jesse Houwing, this detailed post focuses on safeguarding GitHub Action repositories, outlining practical recommendations to counteract risks like those recently exposed in the changed-files hack.

Jesse Houwing presents practical techniques for maximizing the GitHub Copilot free tier by leveraging inline completions, especially for users facing chat message limits or working in editors without chat integration.

Jesse Houwing provides a practical guide to resolving keyboard shortcut and code completion conflicts when using GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs. This article outlines the main issues developers face and step-by-step solutions based on Houwing's workshop experiences.