Martin Woodward

As the #FOSDEM 2027 weekend is confirmed, It might be time to check out my FOSDEM guide and help me polish it further: https://github.com/bagder/FOSDEM

To my maker friends, get yourself a cordless glue gun and thank me later. One of my favorite tool purchases of the last year.

Leaving Belfast, San Francisco bound for #MSBuild

Bluebells on Bluesky

Octocat in the wild @martin.social

The @figma.com MCP server now supports a full roundtrip workflow from VS Code! Bring Figma designs into code, then capture your rendered UI back to the Figma canvas as editable frames. Join us for a special livestream tomorrow at 9:30 am PT to see it live in action: youtube.com/live/O1i-Te7...

Ever wanted to display different images in your GitHub READMEs depending on light or dark mode? 🌓 Check out the steps in this thread! 👇 #opensource #oss #floss #foss #github

Got any questions about all the latest GitHub, VS Code and Copilot news? Jared Palmer, Pierce Boggan and I will be hosting an AMA tomorrow. Looking forward to chatting with you www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...

Huge props to Jason Groundwater for adding a badge simulator to the GitHub Universe badge repo. Makes app development infinitely easier. github.com/badger/home - PR's welcome, 12 new apps added this week!

Demo Time made it into the @github.com Universe keynote yesterday. Five seconds of fame never felt this good 💛 Try it at: demotime.show 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/_KqdBb-...

I will personally give a free ticket to the next GitHub Universe to the first person to share a UF2 with a playable version of Doom for the GitHub Universe 2025 badge

Ever wondered if AI could bring your old #Furby back to life? See how GitHub Copilot helped me resurrect my Furby Connect and port bluefluff to modern Python. Maker fun with a touch of nostalgia and tech brilliance! https://www.woodwardweb.com/post/2025/10/copilot-hacked-my-furby/

Ever wondered if AI could bring your old #Furby back to life? See how GitHub Copilot helped me resurrect my Furby Connect and port bluefluff to modern Python. Maker fun with a touch of nostalgia and tech brilliance! https://www.woodwardweb.com/post/2025/10/copilot-hacked-my-furby/

Copilot Hacked my Furby!!! U-nye-loo-lay-doo? www.woodwardweb.com/post/2025/10...

Why hello my lovely.

Having lunch from Pret A Manger in Paris. Is that sacrilege? Probably sacrilège anyway.

Last day to get your entries in!

Do you have an open source project or start-up that you want to feature LIVE on the keynote stage at githubuniverse.com? I want to hear from you! Details here on how you can enter and maybe win a trip to San Francisco: gh.io/zerotomerged #ZeroToMergedContest

For British folks trying to get Live Translation set up in iOS 26, at the moment it seems like you have to download US English as well as UK English and your other selected foreign languages. Going to be using it in anger for the first time next week.

TFW you realise you forgot to bring your earphones on your morning walk and now you are alone with your own thoughts for the next 45 minutes

I did an interview with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social recently www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tR... Hope you enjoy it!

GitHub is the home for ALL developers. I spoken to quite a few Syrian developers who had been affected by the trade restrictions and know the positive impact that this change will have. Thanks for making the world a more collaborative place - one pull request at a time github.blog/company/gith...

Poser

Happy Friday! WebP support has been now been added to your GitHub repos 🎉

There’s always a drink in a blackberry

TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs ... here it's running my LLM CLI utility

Beautiful day today in NI

Not only did we add GPT5 support to GitHub Copilot the same day that #OpenAI shipped it, we've added #GPT5 to all 5 major IDE platforms. github.blog/changelog/20...

Harry says good morning from a beautiful day at home

KubeCon is coming to my home town, Atlanta, GA, in November from the 10th to the 13th, so it's only right I get a discount code for anyone looking to attend. Use code KELSEY20 for 20% off. events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou...

If you'd like to build VibeCodr, the ultimate vibe coding accessory then I've posted instructions here: www.woodwardweb.com/post/2025/08...

Ever wished your blog could talk to BlueSky all by itself? I automated posts and pulled back comments into my site using GitHub Actions and Copilot. Find out how tech met lazy wins in my latest #github and #web adventure! https://www.woodwardweb.com/post/2025/08/automated-bluesky-integration/

Some folks had been asking about my camera setup. The details are here but it is mostly a peak pandemic setup. Dare say there are much better options now-a-days. However this has been my reliable daily driver setup for 5 years now. www.woodwardweb.com/post/2020/11...

My cat says goodnight 🥱

Rosy weekend

Want to know more about the latest improvements to GitHub Copilot? 🔴 Join me live for @github.com Galaxy in 30 minutes! galaxy.github.com

If you want to see your GitHub contributions in physical form, check out the new gh skyline command line extension. github.com/github/gh-sk... - love to see pictures of what yours looks like #github #skyline #3dprinting

Ship it