Whew, it’s been a year! There were 61 million new repos and 170 million PRs merged—how many were you a part of?
Dive into data in the 2021 State of the Octoverse:
https://octoverse.github.com/
Listen to Lead @WordPress developer @helenhousandi reflect on music’s role in her career—and how exciting developments, (👀 @reactjs front end) are keeping WordPress relevant on The ReadME Project Podcast:
https://github.com/readme/podcast/helen-hou-sandi
Do you only upgrade your locally installed environments when absolutely necessary, leaving the dirty work of fixing it to new hires? @kartar shares how to stop now:
https://github.com/readme/guides/developer-onboarding
Looking for a podcast binge over the holiday? The ReadME Podcast season 2 opens up with prolific open source contributor and Twitch pioneer @codewithanthony. He shares why he left his biochemistry studies and pivoted to programming:
https://github.com/readme/podcast/anthony-sottile
This is 𝚑𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎 ☕️🔥 a CLI benchmarking tool with a difference:
https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
Ring in the new year with a look back at GitHub's top blog posts of 2021! ✨
https://github.blog/2021-12-28-githubs-top-10-blog-posts-of-2021/
Teaching in public is one of the best ways you can give back to the community. Learn how @JeromeHardaway does it and how you can start:
https://github.com/readme/guides/teaching-with-github
Want to land your first tech job? @cassidoo knows how to catch your dream company’s attention, keep it, engage on every level, and more:
https://github.com/readme/guides/first-job-in-tech
Congrats to @NASAWebb on the liftoff! We can’t wait to see what there is to learn about the Universe. 🔭 ❤️
Open source takes us to outer space and even helps us monitor unidentified objects that take flight each holiday season. 🎅 📡
https://github.com/google/santa-tracker-web
Once in advertising, @keeleyhammond got into OSS via non-technical contributions. She’s now an Electron maintainer at @Slack, and is grateful to all those who believed in her along the way:
https://github.com/readme/stories/keeley-hammond
Have some extra reading time over the holiday? @scott_triglia explains how even the most well-intentioned developers can have incompatible beliefs about a project. He also shares how to stay aligned and focused:
https://github.com/readme/guides/roofshots-decision-making
You really can reach Santa anywhere these days. Use GitHub Actions to make sure your wishlist gets on Santa’s radar before it’s too late! 🎅
https://github.com/imjohnbo/dear-santa-action
Did you know that you can now invite outside collaborators to access Codespaces? @asciimike shows how you can get started
https://youtu.be/cG8foNjZ99U
According to the 2021 State of the Octoverse, 47.6% of developers expect to work in a hybrid environment of remote and office work. Where will you be working from in 2022?
https://octoverse.github.com/
From their earliest computer interactions to unlocking the world of open source, @nerdneha and @bdougieYO turn the interview tables on each other for the year’s final episode of The ReadME Podcast:
https://github.co/3miSAJh
RT GitHub Policy
There’s a new iteration of the #SantaClaraPrinciples with expanded guidelines for transparent, rights-based content moderation. Learn more about how @github contributed to the update:
https://github.blog/2021-12-21-how-github-contributed-santa-clara-principles-update/
One of Harvard's largest classes, CS50, uses these tools to make teaching introductory computer science easier:
✅ GitHub Actions
✅ GitHub Classroom
✅ GitHub Codespaces
✅ GitHub REST APIs
Want to learn how? Watch the full video here:
https://youtu.be/bUZoEKQSccI
Boss approaching your desk? In-laws popping over for dinner? Quick! Look busy with 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚌𝚝:
https://github.com/svenstaro/genact
It’s not always intuitive to recognize the breadth of your work when you’re in the weeds of it. To give yourself proper credit, here’s what @indigitalcolor suggests:
https://github.com/readme/guides/public-documentation
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