Re And while we can’t endorse finishing an entire carton of ice cream at once, we do encourage a monthly binge of The ReadME Project. Sign up for the *new* newsletter to read all the stories on your own time.
https://github.com/readme/#newsletter
Starting this month, The ReadME Project will drop all articles on one day, and today is that day! But before we do that, a look back on some of the stories that shaped us this past year.
https://github.blog/2021-09-14-the-readme-project-a-look-back-community-stories/
Do you like to listen to music while you code?
Rock out or chillax to your favorite tunes with Spotify in your terminal 🔊
https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
✅ GitHub Discussions out of beta
🎉 Support for extensions in GitHub CLI 2.0
⚡ Actions that can reference other actions
Check out everything that shipped in August!
https://github.blog/2021-09-13-whats-new-from-github-changelog-august-2021-recap/
RT GitHub Enterprise
We’re live on Demo Days! Tune in for a how-to on automating the SDLC using GitHub and ChatOps! Join us now:
https://www.linkedin.com/events/6838532958866022401/
Got lots of issues? 😰 TIP: Make your most important ones stand out from the rest by pinning them 📌
RT GitHub Policy
In 2018, we advocated to protect open source development in the EU © Directive, including due to its economic importance.
Check out this study prepared for @EU_Commission, finding open source added between €65 and €95 billion to EU GDP in 2018.
Open source policy FTW!
OpenForum Europe: We’ve been tasked by the 🇪🇺 to conduct the most comprehensive Open Source study in many years.
Today, @FraunhoferISI and @OpenForumEurope’s study for the @EU_Commission is out. It’s been over a year of work.
What have we found out? Strap in for a 🧵
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Can't wait until Dec 22nd? Let the Matrix rain in your terminal now!
https://github.com/nojvek/matrix-rain
Join @bdougie and @alexpage_ to discuss the design system that powers an e-commerce experience for one million-plus users.
Follow us on Twitch for notifications when live.
https://twitch.tv/github
RT GitHub Security Lab
We spoke with maintainers about their experience interacting with the security research community and engaging in the vulnerability disclosure processes. Check out what they shared and we learned!
https://github.co/2X71ZtK
https://twitter.com/GHSecurityLab/status/1436022927091277828
RT Ali Spittel 🐞
You can create dropdowns in GitHub markdown to make someone click to see information! This is super helpful for creating workshops.
<details>
<summary>
this text will show
</summary>
this text will be hidden until you click the above text!
</details>
Heads up! We're finally removing API auth via query param next week, 9/8. By now everyone should have switched to API auth via headers for general security hygiene. Otherwise, check out this post to ensure you're unaffected by this change.
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-31-sunset-notice-api-authentication-via-query-parameters/
RT GitHub Enterprise
The key to faster deployments? Automation with GitHub, ChatOps, and the cloud ☁️ We’ll show you how to get started at Demo Days this Friday @ 11am PT.
https://www.linkedin.com/events/6838532958866022401/
RT npm
⚠️ action recommended: following newly discovered vulnerabilities in `tar` and `@npmcli/arborist`, we recommend upgrading to the latest versions of @nodejs 12 / 14 / 16 or npm 6 / 7 as well as updating any dependencies you may have on `tar`. read more:
https://github.blog/2021-09-08-github-security-update-vulnerabilities-tar-npmcli-arborist/
We’ve been using CodeQL internally to keep code quality high - and to keep developers happy by protecting them from annoying mistakes that are easy to make but hard to spot!
https://github.blog/2021-09-07-increasing-developer-happiness-github-code-scanning/
GitHub Issues == project planning for devs. Thanks for all the beta feedback so far, new updates include bulk select and delete, custom fields in board layout, and more! Details in the latest Changelog:
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-03-the-new-github-issues-09-03-update/
Our community has been hard at work shipping new releases and updates.
Here's our top staff picks for open source projects that shipped major version releases this August 👇
What project are you working on this weekend?
https://github.co/3tbHwjp
The first year of The ReadME Project is full of inspiring stories, and we can’t help but re-read @left_pad’s story of becoming the maintainer of @babeljs.
https://github.com/readme/stories/henry-zhu
GitHub CLI 2.0 now supports extensions 🎉
Make your workflow more powerful by using commands that suit you.
Check out some of the extensions already available and build your own. Our docs will get you started on building extensions:
http://docs.github.com/en/github-cli/github-cli/creating-github-cli-extensions
Need to breakdown an issue into smaller pieces as you go? Try using task lists to quickly split the issue up and then you can easily convert those tasks into issues later on if you find you need to track some of the work separately.
How people build software.
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