How to add a stage in GitHub Actions for linting some issues in writing

Lets check how to use Vale to improve our writing! Vale Vale offers open source, command line linting for text. It can enforce a specific editorial style guidelines across your content. You can even create your own style or configure and fine-tune another. You can set it up to check Markdown files, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, XML and others. Once you have the rules on your machine configured it can also run offline. Last but not least it has many integrations, GitHub Actions among them, which we will later explore and test. ...

November 12, 2025 · 6 min · Xavier Alves

Thoughts on GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

The Green on the endless, courtesy of Ruben Alves - Check more here How does GitHub Copilot function GitHub developed GitHub Copilot as a coding assistant. It integrates directly into popular code editors such as Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA providing real-time code suggestions, auto-completions, and even entire function or class implementations as you type. Copilot leverages a large language model trained on codebases of public code, enabling it to understand context, infer intent, and generate code snippets in dozens of programming languages. ...

August 27, 2025 · 7 min · Xavier Alves