When the Shapes Don’t Fit: Modelling Team Interaction Anti-Patterns with Honesty

I like [Team Topologies] as a shared language for talking and thinking about how teams work. Part of that is talking about what is not working, and how to improve, which this article touches upon.

When the Shapes Don’t Fit

Generate GitHub Copilot instructions

Good little tip from Burke Holland: GitHub Copilot in VSCode can auto-generate .github/copilot-instructions.md via canned meta-instructions and a review of your codebase. A simple step to take, barring more heavyweight, emerging practices like memory and stuff like Repomix.

Your AI assistant might be guessing more than helping

Hitting fresh GitHub bugs

I was working on a fork of a custom Windows taskbar (to create a transparent zone other windows cannot maximize into, for use when I auto-hide the Windows taskbar to save my OLED screen from burn-in) and happened upon this bug. It is pretty specific, in that it occurs

  • if your repo was created 2025-11-25 (writing this on the 26th)
  • if your repo is trying to create a release with GITHUB_TOKEN

Bug Report: Publishing a release via GitHub actions fails for repos created on 2025-11-25