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Identifying and Cleaning Up Stale GitHub Repos at Scale

A practical guide to auditing thousands of GitHub repositories, identifying what’s truly stale, and safely archiving or cleaning up the ones you no longer need.

The Mana of Corporate Politics

Corporate politics explained through a gaming lens. Mana, spells, and why not all actions cost the same amount of political capital.

Scaling GitHub Rulesets with Custom Properties: A Strategy for Enterprise Governance

Stop managing hundreds of one-off rulesets. Use custom properties to build a tiered governance model that scales across thousands of repos.

The Eligibility Exercise: A Practical Framework for Your Next Promotion

Before you ask for a promotion, do the homework. Here’s a simple framework to build your case and identify your gaps.

Copilot CLI Skills: A Practical Guide With Examples for Every Role

Skills are how you teach Copilot CLI to do your job your way. This guide covers what skills are, how to build them, and includes ready-to-use examples for developers, data engineers, DBAs, project managers, and technical writers.