October 2026

Build Week: why game jams are still the best place to learn to ship

Tools have made building cheap. Finishing is still hard, and forty-eight hours with a deadline is the fastest way we know to practise it.

How one bug bounty researcher chooses what to investigate

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month we sat down with one of our most prolific external researchers to talk method, patience and the features they never touch.

Secret protection has to scale with the software

Developers are not becoming more careless; they are being outpaced. Tools that help ship more code should take on more of the work of protecting it.

Rebuilding our Git storage for agent-scale development

Agents push more often, clone more often and fetch more often than people. We are rebuilding the storage layer while it keeps serving every request.

ReviewBench: an open benchmark for automated code review

A benchmark for review agents built on real pull requests, multi-source ground truth and production-aligned metrics.

Ten technical talks I am excited about at this year's summit

From agent-written code reviews to the future of open source maintenance, these are the sessions I am building my schedule around.