Tag: github
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There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in…
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Links and original content
Original content The Enterprise Turing Test, Software Defined Talk #544: “This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!” The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies, Software Defined Interviews…
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What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub. Their definition is “[a]nyone with a GitHub account.” Let’s not overthink it, just yet, and instead go with what they’re saying. If 2025 had a theme, it would be growth. Every second, more than one new developer on average joined GitHub–over 36 million in the past…
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Anthropic is building a PaaS.
Anthropic is building a PaaS. They’ve got isolated VM’s/containers, they’ve thought out support languages for the major languages. You can even write code in the browser…with the AI. And it checks your stuff into GitHub? Plus, of course, it runs your code for you, at least with Claude Skills. 🔗 Claude Code for web –…
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Fly includes an audacious reimagining of the software development process, making versioning automatic and version names obsolete.
‘JFrog Fly is the company’s agentic developer platform and an MCP server that works with multiple IDEs, including VS Code and Cursor. Integrated with GitHub and observability, Fly provides a chat interface that allows users to query, promote, and roll back existing releases based on specifics of the code (e.g., “Which features were added to…
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Generate and execute code in Claude’s web app, also pull from GitHub and package managers. What else can you have it do and install in the containers(?) it’s running?
Generate and execute code in Claude’s web app, also pull from GitHub and package managers. What else can you have it do and install in the containers(?) it’s running? 🔗 Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now)
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GitHub is the developer resume, so don’t screw that up for your employees
“In many cases in the big companies and all the small startups, your Github profile is your resume,” explained another former Amazonian. “When I look at developers that’s what I’m looking for, [but] they go to Amazon and that resume stops … It absolutely affects the quality of their hires.” I’ve been reading The Everything…
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How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk: From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
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How the kids learn about new stuff – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast
Check it out! Charles and I recorded an episode. In Video! Charles and I discuss DevOpsDays Austin, how programmers keep up with things now-a-days, and some detailed examples of the social parts of GitHub.

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