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    11 Aug 2021

    🤫 New shortcut: Press . on any GitHub repo.

    Edit multiple files in any GitHub repo
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  2. Retweeted
    Feb 9

    🙌 Love this walkthrough of using Codespaces for data science and machine learning work:

    "Attempting to contribute to an open-source machine learning project requires a leap-of-faith. Is there a list of dependencies? Where is the training data? ... Should I just bail and watch Lego Masters instead?" Derek Haynes shows us a better way!
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  3. Feb 11

    Get your team started with the new projects experience on GitHub - check out our tips! 🤓

    1 reply 52 retweets 241 likes
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  4. Retweeted
    Feb 10

    We've opened a 30-day notice and comment period with updates to our Acceptable Use Policies and Community Guidelines. We made these changes to make our policies clearer and easier to understand, and appreciate your feedback.

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  5. Feb 11

    Whether or not it's performance review time or not, only you know the true scope and quality of your work—so make sure you take notes! has all the tips.

    1 reply 15 retweets 68 likes
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  6. Feb 10

    Reading a CSV file isn’t exactly easy on the eyes, but this extension can help. Check out Rainbow CSV and make your CSVs easier to skim, filter and query(!), and more colorful: 🌈 Install it in VS Code, a Codespace, or even in .

    12 replies 92 retweets 529 likes
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  7. Feb 10

    Looking to DRY up your GitHub Actions across projects? Try reusable workflows. Here are a few tips to get started.

    3 replies 20 retweets 97 likes
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  8. Feb 10

    This GitHub Action lets you build, test, *and* deploy an Android application 🎉 h/t

    3 replies 20 retweets 150 likes
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  9. Feb 10

    Bring all your conversations together, no matter where they are. You can now connect Discussions in your repo with and to get notified when a new thread is created or answered 💭

    2 replies 11 retweets 57 likes
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  10. Feb 10

    How many reviewers do you require before you merge your pull requests? - Check out Octoverse for the facts on how the number of reviewers effects merge time - 

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  11. Feb 9

    Project planning with GitHub Issues looks different for everyone. Recently added are project descriptions and READMEs to help explain a given project’s purpose and how to best engage 💪 Oh, and now you can add outside collaborators! ✨

    3 replies 36 retweets 159 likes
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  12. Feb 9

    Congrats to all the contributors to the latest release - fire up your downloads, 9.0 is available now! Loads of features but also this is the version that now has long term support (LTS)

    12 replies 187 retweets 913 likes
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  13. Feb 8

    We’ve been listening to your feedback and have shipped improvements to the developer experience for Dependabot alerts. ✨ Check it out!

    4 replies 31 retweets 192 likes
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  14. Feb 8

    Where do you store your application logic? The browser is definitely a popular spot these days. But there’s a new crop of tools helping developers keep code on the backend–and for certain applications this is definitely ideal. Read how and why.

    4 replies 41 retweets 143 likes
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  15. Feb 8

    Looking for a quick way to see which projects or files are taking up your valuable disk space? The aptly named `dust` (a `du` alternative written in Rust) delivers! ▓▓▓▓██████

    5 replies 66 retweets 375 likes
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  16. Feb 4

    Congrats to all our open source projects who shipped major version releases in January 🎉 Here's a few of our staff favourites, featuring , and more. Read the Release Radar for all the projects:

    5 replies 32 retweets 198 likes
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  17. Feb 4

    What does your coding setup look like this year? Send us your pics! We asked more than 12,000 devs where they expected to work in 2022. 48% expect hybrid of home + office and 39% think fully remote. Read more

    Pictures of some of our desk setups
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  18. Feb 4

    You don't like merge commits because they are polluting your Git history? You can now choose to rebase when updating a branch in a pull request 🥳

    More ways to keep your pull request branch up-to-date
    26 replies 235 retweets 1,198 likes
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  19. Feb 4

    and if you'd like to generate charts like these for your web app or important business meetings then there’s a handy JS library for that too:

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  20. Feb 4

    😍 Visualize and compare repositories' stars over time with this xkcd-esque chart generator courtesy of and : 📈🚀

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  21. Feb 3

    Building a CI/CD pipeline might seem like a daunting task, but GitHub Actions can help. Here's how!

    2 replies 42 retweets 176 likes
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