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Copilot Power User Interview

Introduction

I’m Edd Wilder-James, Director of TPM at GitHub—I lead the TPM org for Copilot, and P&E. I’m a coder, but not a software engineer by role; my job is strategic and organizational.

Been around tech a long time, but I’m not shipping production code for

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Teams PWA URL Handler for macOS

Problem

If you use the Microsoft Teams PWA (installed via Edge) instead of the native Teams desktop app, clicking Teams meeting join links doesn't work. Here's why:

1. The interstitial uses the wrong protocol — meeting links go through a launcher page that fires msteams:// URLs, but the PWA only registers web+msteams://.

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markdown-mermaid.el — Notes

What it does

Renders mermaid code fences as inline PNG images in markdown-overlays buffers. Uses mmdc (mermaid-cli) for rendering, with content-hash caching so identical diagrams aren't re-rendered. Integrates via :after advice on markdown-overlays-put.

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Copilot CLI Session Tracking via Git

Two small tools that link your git commits to Copilot CLI sessions, and let you resume where you left off.

How it works

1. prepare-commit-msg — a global git hook that appends a Copilot-Session trailer to every commit made during an active Copilot CLI session. The format is <session-id>@<host-hash>,

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Edd's Emacs goodies

Two small things from my Emacs config that travel well:

dracula-light-theme.el

A light variant of the Dracula theme (port of film42's work, with my tweaks). Drop into a directory on custom-theme-load-path and:

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#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.10"
# dependencies = [
#   "cryptography>=42",
# ]
# ///
"""Extract Slack desktop app tokens for use with mautrix-slack (macOS).

For each Slack workspace you're signed into in the desktop app, prints