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Aaron Powell (@slace)

@aaron-powell.com

DevRel at GitHub/Microsoft doing .NET and GitHub Copilot. Maintainer of https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot Pronouns: he/him

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Guidance for submissions involving paid services · github awesome-copilot · Discussion #968 We're open to contributions related to paid or commercial tools. But this repo is not a marketing channel. If a submission is mainly promoting a product, driving signups, or pushing a service rathe...

Awesome Copilot has been growing amazingly fast but with growth comes pain, especially with contributions-as-marketing. To ensure we continue to be a source of high-quality agents, skills, etc. I've updated our policy on paid service contributions - github.com/github/aweso...

12.03.2026 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, at least the children are saf... wait

11.03.2026 04:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

10.03.2026 19:58 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2

LGTM - merge

09.03.2026 05:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A bunch of computer surgery today and I've got a PoC boot of an old Mac Mini with Ubuntu to expand my homelab.

The drive with Ubuntu doesn't actually fit in the Mac Mini, it's just a temp replacement to prove it'd work before I flash the "real" drive

08.03.2026 11:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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xUnit v3 upgrade by aaronpowell · Pull Request #960 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire Upgrading the tests to use xUnit v3, which is what is used by aspire now too. Close #961

Finally, after nearly 4 months, I've finally got the Aspire Community Toolkit upgrades to @xunit.net 3! github.com/CommunityToo...

05.03.2026 10:59 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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Awesome Copilot just hit 1337 commits 🤓

IYKYK

02.03.2026 00:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Decided to do a spot of joggling at parkrun yesterday

28.02.2026 22:32 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to fully customize Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh (themes, fonts, icons, & more)
How to fully customize Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh (themes, fonts, icons, & more) YouTube video by Kayla Cinnamon

Finally decided to start a YouTube channel! Would greatly appreciate if you went and checked it out 🫶

First video: how to fully customize Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh (and more!)

Also let me know if you want to see any specific videos from me! 💖
youtu.be/VFnr0lwwGuQ?...

26.02.2026 01:36 👍 60 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 0
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Well... that's a new error from GitHub

23.02.2026 23:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a south park character says uhuh yeah in front of a sign that says south park Alt: a south park character says uhuh yeah in front of a sign that says south park
18.02.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Combine Prompts and Skills · Issue #760 · github/awesome-copilot As I continue down the path to optimise this repo (see #751) the next idea I want to float is combining Skills and Prompts. Prompts are one of the original primitives in the repo, you can define th...

Proposing a big change to Awesome Copilot - github.com/github/aweso...

18.02.2026 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub - aaronpowell/discord-docker-updater: A self-hosted Discord bot that integrates with Diun to provide interactive Docker container update management through Discord A self-hosted Discord bot that integrates with Diun to provide interactive Docker container update management through Discord - aaronpowell/discord-docker-updater

Here's a little tool I had copilot build for my homelab - github.com/aaronpowell/...

It takes image update notificiations from diun and turns them into Discord messages that I can action to either update the image of the container (and compose file) or dismiss if I don't want that update.

17.02.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how could you Scott...

17.02.2026 03:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a homelab-er, something neat I'm finding with github copilot is that I can code up simple little apps to fill problems or gaps I have in the way I want to manage things.

These are purpose built for *my* way of working so they don't have to be perfect but just work for me.

16.02.2026 22:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's not *that* bad, you never said "it's what C# wants to be"

16.02.2026 02:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Found in some code I had copilot generate for me 🤣

12.02.2026 05:24 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GitHub - aaronpowell/copilot-sdk-web-app Contribute to aaronpowell/copilot-sdk-web-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

Experimenting with client/server architecture with Copilot SDK - github.com/aaronpowell/...

Login with GitHub, Copilot SDK then uses that user, allowing multi-tenant apps without a shared Copilot account.

12.02.2026 05:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Minnesotan nurse saved my refugee family’s life. Four decades on, we watched the news together in horror | Rathana Chea Alex Pretti’s death in Minneapolis reveals a painful contradiction – nurses are carers in times of crisis, often invisible, yet they carry our moral compass * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Four decades ago, my parents were Cambodian refugees. As high school students, they were thrown into one of the darkest chapters of humanity’s history, surviving nearly five years in forced labour camps under the Khmer Rouge genocide. An estimated 2.7 million of my kin perished during that time. Fortunately for my family, they were accepted under Australia’s humanitarian program and arrived in Australia on 26 January, a date heavy with complexity for Australian identity, and our refugee story became another layer within it. Our journey began when my mother discovered she was pregnant. Together with my father, they decided to flee on foot through landmine-ridden jungle toward the Thai-Cambodian border, carrying nothing but their lives and the hope that their unborn child might escape the suffering they had endured. Continue reading...

A Minnesotan nurse saved my refugee family’s life. Four decades on, we watched the news together in horror | Rathana Chea

09.02.2026 05:13 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of a social media post by Debbie Ridpath Ohi explaining how to add embedded links in Bluesky posts using Deck.blue. The post shows a step-by-step process with annotated arrows and text highlighting the ease of turning URLs into markdown links by pasting them after selecting text. The final result shows a clickable hyperlink in the post. The image is labeled 'Easy way to add embedded links in your Bluesky posts via Deck.blue' and includes Debbie's profile picture and handle.

Screenshot of a social media post by Debbie Ridpath Ohi explaining how to add embedded links in Bluesky posts using Deck.blue. The post shows a step-by-step process with annotated arrows and text highlighting the ease of turning URLs into markdown links by pasting them after selecting text. The final result shows a clickable hyperlink in the post. The image is labeled 'Easy way to add embedded links in your Bluesky posts via Deck.blue' and includes Debbie's profile picture and handle.

You can embed hyperlinks via deck.blue!

28.03.2024 14:05 👍 58 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 6

Trying out the @aspire.dev mcp server with copilot CLI to build out a feature in a web app and it really is neat

04.02.2026 02:01 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven't setup offsite backups yet, but I might use a similar strategy to I do with paperless-ngx, push to OneDrive for backup.

Otherwise Azure Files is a consideration for backup/cold storage

01.02.2026 06:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are you going to set it as the default photos app on devices and block upload to iCloud/etc.?

01.02.2026 06:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I finally bit the bullet and setup on my Synology yesterday too. I've started importing some of my media before looking to roll out to the family.

I'm wanting to learn more about the search/ML aspect, as I like that I can ask OneDrive something random and have it return relevant results

01.02.2026 06:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

mdx - everything you love about styling markdown combined with everything you love about writing JSX

29.01.2026 04:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

what cards are you using for the two line charts?

29.01.2026 03:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a thing of beauty 🤩

28.01.2026 04:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I built a web app with the GitHub Copilot SDK to make analyzing log files easier. It'll summarize them, provide a root cause analysis, and also link any GitHub issues they could be related to ✨

Check out the GitHub Copilot SDK here: github.com/github/copil...

22.01.2026 19:10 👍 61 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
22.01.2026 06:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

see, this is what we need to be able to delegate to AI for

22.01.2026 05:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0