Posts from June 01, 2026

New GitHub Copilot billing is popular

1 min read; 8 GFI

So today is the day, today is when GitHub Copilot swaps to its new billing system. Watching the relevant subreddit suggests this might not be popular.

Some folk think it isn't the smartest move.

Not a good choice

Some don't feel too friendly towards it any more.

Friendship ended

It looks like some of those friendships have lasted a while.

2021-2026

Some saw the opportunity to create content out of the situation.

A cancellation video

Some have figured out that the thing that costs money, costs money.

It is too expensive

Someone used up half their monthly allowance on just 8 requests.

Half used after 8 requests

Although, of course, there's always someone who has to do it better.

Half after 1 request

To be fair though, at least one person loves the new system.

Love the new system

As for my subscription, which came about after I initially experimented with free access to the tool, I've not actually cancelled yet, but I can't see me making use of it much more. I might try a couple of prompts with it, along the lines of what I was doing while working on BlogMore, just to get a feel for how different the usage is now.

Meanwhile, though, I've found that I'm getting on a lot better with Antigravity and getting the bits done I want to do. I suspect this is how I'll keep tinkering with BlogMore, until Google come to their senses anyway.

BlogMore v2.36.0

1 min read; 10 GFI

Another quick update to BlogMore: this time doing a little bit of tidying up in support of my use of it over on my photoblog.

The new items I've added to the stats page are working out really well, but over on the photoblog they were lacking a bit in a couple of areas. Because no post on the photoblog has any body text -- it's just title, category, tags and image -- things like the word count and yearly focus didn't really have any content. The minimum and maximum word counts were zero, and every single year of the span of the blog had no focus whatsoever.

To clean this up I've made it so that the word count section just doesn't show at all if the minimum and maximum word counts are both zero. I've also changed how the corpus of words for the yearly focus works too. If a particular post has no body text, the text that is used falls back to using the title of the post and the tags. With that change, the yearly focus list for the photoblog goes from being completely empty, to looking quite informative.

Year focus for the photoblog

One other change in v2.36.0 is a small fix to headings as they appear in user-supplied pages. While it was possible to grab an anchor for a heading so you could link to it, the character that should appear on hover, to help make this obvious, wasn't appearing on those pages. That's now fixed.