Martin Woodward

@martin.social

VP of DevRel at GitHub (he/him) https://github.com/martinwoodward

I will personally give a free ticket to the next GitHub Universe to the first person to share a UF2 with a playable version of Doom for the GitHub Universe 2025 badge

GitHub Hackable Conference Badge

Bought myself a new lamp after seeing it in the background in the set of Ted Danson’s new show “A Man on the Inside” and I love it. 10/10, no regrets. How’s your day going?

My awesome new lamp. Kinda art deco inspired.

For British folks trying to get Live Translation set up in iOS 26, at the moment it seems like you have to download US English as well as UK English and your other selected foreign languages. Going to be using it in anger for the first time next week.

Screenshot of Live Translation feature in iOS 26

GitHub is the home for ALL developers. I spoken to quite a few Syrian developers who had been affected by the trade restrictions and know the positive impact that this change will have. Thanks for making the world a more collaborative place - one pull request at a time github.blog/company/gith...

GitHub is enabling broader access for developers in Syria following new government trade rules

With the relaxation of sanctions and export controls on Syria, GitHub will once again be broadly available to Syrian developers.

github.blog

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs ... here it's running my LLM CLI utility

Screenshot of a GitHub Codespaces VS Code interface showing a README.md file for codespaces-llm repository. The file describes a GitHub Codespaces environment with LLM, Python 3.13, uv and the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension. It has a "Launch Codespace" button. Below shows a terminal tab with the command "llm 'Fun facts about pelicans'" which has generated output listing 5 pelican facts: 1. **Huge Beaks:** about their enormous beaks and throat pouches for scooping fish and water, some over a foot long; 2. **Fishing Technique:** about working together to herd fish into shallow water; 3. **Great Fliers:** about being strong fliers that migrate great distances and soar on thermals; 4. **Buoyant Bodies:** about having air sacs beneath skin and bones making them extra buoyant; 5. **Dive Bombing:** about Brown Pelicans diving dramatically from air into water to catch fish.

Should I get a foldable e-bike or a solid hybrid? Context: I’m never going to turn into a Lycra clad person taking cycling seriously, but live somewhere hilly. Unlikely to use a bike rack. Mostly want to get to places within a 10 mile radius of my house, but more use if I can take bike places