On The Download with @film_girl this week, GitHub Universe 2022, a Stable Diffusion Smorgasbord, 90s Cursor Effects and @tanya_shapiro shares the R code behind the most important infographic of the week
https://youtu.be/z6NrJy90Gpc
RT Lenny Rachitsky
✨ Here’s my conversation with @RyanJSalva, VP of Product at @github, where he led the incubation and launch of @GitHubCopilot.
Learn:
▫️ The inside story of how @GitHubCopilot came to be
▫️ Ethical challenges with AI
▫️ How to structure R&D teams
▫️ More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awcd3P1DnX4
Getting started with #opensource can be overwhelming. Senior software engineer Ariel Deitcher shares how he got started and offers a few tips that might help you find your own good first issue to tackle.
https://github.blog/2022-09-06-contributing-to-open-source-at-github/
RT GitHub Community
Join us for a day of inspiration, learning, and connection at #OctogatosConf 2022 👇🏾
🗓 Sep 15
📺 Virtual & Free
👉🏾
https://github.co/octogatosconf
https://twitter.com/GitHubCommunity/status/1567209041721544713
Re The formula may be simple but it's not always easy. Find out how to increase your Luck Surface Area with @aarondfrancis's guide.
https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work
Re 3. Don't be put off. For every snarky comment, there are 10x as many people admiring your work.
Re 2. Tell people. Press publish, bring us along, share the journey. Tell us what you’ve learned, what you’ve built, or what you’re excited about.
Re 1. Do the work. Don’t be afraid to dive deep into your curiosity and your expertise. We need more people that are intensely curious. We need more people with deep expertise.
Can publishing your work increase your luck? @aarondfrancis says the trick is to increase the number of opportunities we have for good fortune to find us. How do we do this? Read our 🧵
Someone's been busy in Marrakech. #irlcontributiongraph
📷: At YSL museum, Marrakech, Morocco
Re But for the true fans of Korn, you can check out the original source code for it here
https://github.com/att/ast
Re If you are using zsh already but really still bashing away, check out this great tutorial from Seth Kenlon
https://opensource.com/article/19/9/getting-started-zsh
If you like ksh, you should check out zsh. It has the juice. It's like Korn with butter. 🌽
To really speed up your zsh environment check out
https://ohmyz.sh/
First time contributions to a project involve hours of setup before a line of code can be written. Codespaces eliminates that process for you and your team. ✅
Having friends over this weekend?
Superstarfighter is a fast, fun, and free game for Windows, macOS, and Linux:
› 1 to 4 players
› 20+ levels
› Open source
› Built with Godot
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https://notapixel.itch.io/superstarfighter
We’ve got some sweet treats in this week’s GitHub Issues Changelog.
🍭 Now you can auto-hide your column boards with filters 🙈, add Issue and PR numbers in table layouts, and more 👀! There’s a little something for everyone! ✨
https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-02-the-new-github-issues-september-2nd-update/
Gauge interest in a new feature, determine the best time for a meetup, or even find out what kind of cake is best with polls in GitHub Discussions. 🍰 🍰 🍰
https://youtu.be/EWckNPIhXuQ
So you've got yourself a large Git repo. Just like sharding an application database, there are many ways to split a repository, with various trade-offs. Read about them in this final installment of our blog series on Git's internals. ⬇️
https://github.blog/2022-09-02-gits-database-internals-v-scalability/
How people build software.
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