Back in 2019 I wrote a post about my favorite VS Code plugins and here we are in 2025 and I’m still using it every single day. At this point VS Code has become my main IDE for both work and home projects. I still run Visual Studio from time to time, but VS Code has really become the Swiss Army knife for just about everything i run it for work task and home side projects and if i’m traveling i run it on my iPad via vscode.dev.
From time to time, I see folks confusing the products of GitHub and Azure DevOps with the version control of Git and the practices of DevOps. In this post, I will break down terms like Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and DevOps to help clarify what each one does, their relationship with one another, and how they contribute to the software development lifecycle.
Git is a distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 and actually it turns 20 this month. It helps developers track changes in their codebase, collaborate with team members, and manage different versions of a project efficiently.
Previously, I made a YouTube video demonstrating how to automate the detection of whether a meeting is happening using Home Assistant and a light. In that video, I used an ESP32 board and LED light strips controlled by WLED, integrated with Home Assistant for the automation. Since then, I’ve discovered the ESP32-S3 Matrix a compact and versatile development board featuring an ESP32-S3 processor and an 8x8 RGB LED matrix with 64 integrated LEDs. This board is perfect for creating interactive lighting projects, digital art, and real-time visual displays. Its compact design makes it ideal for my setup: a small device placed inside a wine press located outside my office to signal my current meeting status with lights.
This blog post was written for future Richard and anyone else who might be looking for documentation on where to start with enabling GitHub Copilot within an organization. The process is pretty simple but might be diffcult to find where to start.
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered autocomplete tool that acts as a peer programmer, assisting in writing code. if you want to dive deeper into Copilot you can find more information about GitHub Copilot on the github resource site.
