US new-home inventory stayed flat. Why did nine months of supply become 8.5?
August US housing data show how faster sales can reduce months of supply without removing a single unit from reported inventory.
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Copilot now sees OpenCode traffic: why request counts can suddenly look higher
GitHub adds totals_by_client to expose usage beyond IDEs. A concrete example separates prompts, model calls, sessions and agent jobs.
US retail sales rose 0.8%: gasoline stations took 71% of the dollar increase
Breaking September retail sales into dollars reveals the role of gasoline stations. Original charts from official Census tables.
Installing a GitHub App on an enterprise does not unlock repository code
Enterprise installations are generally available. A concrete guide to installation boundaries, permissions, and replacing classic PATs.
GDP at 2.2%, private demand at 4.6%: two views of the same US quarter
Ahead of the third-quarter GDP release, BEA’s second-quarter figures show why total output and private final demand can tell different stories.
When GitHub Actions logs disappear: what 120 new storage hosts reveal
GitHub added Blob hosts for Actions logs and job summaries. Published ranges and an executed local example explain how hostname allowlists differ.
US initial jobless claims fell. Why did continuing claims rise?
Two charts unpack the October 22 release: 194,000 initial claims and 1,728,000 people in seasonally adjusted insured unemployment.
Why a GitHub PR looks smaller when you hide whitespace
GitHub now saves whitespace preferences across pull requests. Two real local diffs show what becomes easier to read—and what a whitespace filter can conceal.
US median weekly earnings of $1,232: not a raise for the same worker
Before turning the BLS median into a hiring budget, examine the population, composition effects, and comparison basis.
GitHub CLI expiring OAuth preview: audit the lifetime of copied tokens
A practical review of token caching and refresh boundaries following the GitHub CLI 2.103.0 expiring OAuth public preview.