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10. Lawyers on GitHub rejoice![^1] [^1]: See generally https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footn... ( 103, 17)
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16. Last year I over-engineered my home network for privacy & security using @The_Pi_Hole (tracki... ( 60, 6)
17. GitHub now shows what open source license, if any, a project is licensed under (and the code itse... ( 56, 26)
18. Good news if you use GitHub to store GeoJSON: All GitHub Pages sites now have CORS headers set by... ( 55, 42)
19. GitHub Copilot, but for writing OKRs. ( 50, 2)
20. Remote work PSA: want to make sure all your distributed coworkers feel included? Normalize includ... ( 50, 14)
21. How we work is as important as what we work on. Sharing some team values we captured a while back,… ( 50, 12)
22. If you use @zoom_us for meetings at work, but hate constantly opening Google Calendar, you may fi... ( 48, 14)
23. If you maintain an open source project on @GitHub, you can now publish docs directly from the pro... ( 47, 27)
24. Really excited to help more than a million sites potentially move to HTTPS today and make the net... ( 45, 27)
25. In light of @katfukui's recent post, I wrote a bit about how she (among others) helped me appreci... ( 44, 13)
26. Just in time for #GDPR, @GitHub users can now download an archive of their repository, issue, com... ( 44, 16)
27. My favorite features are those that absorb complexity on behalf of users. Awesome to see 4+ years... ( 44, 5)
28. The government GitHub ecosystem via @evonfriedland https://emanuelfeld.github.io/blog/2016/04/27/... ( 44, 30)
29. Could use some help kicking the tires of my shiny new Word to Markdown converter. App: http://wor... ( 44, 21)
30. It's been a while since I've written about collaboration tools and patterns, but following my &qu... ( 43, 13)
31. We simplified publishing on GitHub from a dozen steps to three. Commit a md file, activate GitHub... ( 43, 18)
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33. No more copying and pasting. You can now set organization-wide contributing, issue/PR template, c... ( 40, 14)
34. OH: A reorg is the organizational equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?... ( 40, 13)
35. One Git wonder (n) - An agency that open sources a project then immediately proceeds to abandon it. ( 40, 55)
36. Nearly 10 years ago, I conducted an inventory of what technologies powered federal government web... ( 39, 12)
37. New features specifically for the open source community: Maintainers can now minimize off-topic/o... ( 39, 7)
38. Hard to believe that today marks six (6!) years at GitHub. From government to open source to comm... ( 38, 1)
39. Hacking GitHub: 12 simple tools to help introduce open source to the uninitiated http://bit.ly/14... ( 38, 18)
40. I'm hiring a Communications and Education Manager to help engage GitHubbers and the GitHub commun... ( 37, 23)
41. Today marks my “Octoversary” - eight years to the day from when “Ben Balter is a GitHubber” first... ( 37, 2)
42. Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing http://bit.ly... ( 37, 14)
43. Seems even the @washingtonpost print edition isn't immune from encoding challenges... https://t.c... ( 37, 10)
44. GitHub Pages now supports relative links in Markdown files, making it a little bit easier to brow... ( 37, 19)
45. 19 reasons why technologists don’t want to work at your government agency http://ben.balter.com/2... ( 37, 40)
46. Fish sticks are really having their moment. ( 35, 0)
47. Hard to change your behavior if you don't know what to change. Org. admins can now temp. block di... ( 35, 8)
48. Wanted: A Slack flag that requires users to make a $1 donation to a charity of their choice each ... ( 35, 6)
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38. Still WIP, but I present GitHub Forms, a RESTful API for submitting standard HTML form data to a ... ( 31, 21)
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41. GitSpatial, a spatial API for your GitHub-hosted GeoJSON via @JCSanford http://gitspatial.com/ ( 16, 20)
42. Democracy could use a better UX. ( 7, 20)
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44. We simplified publishing on GitHub from a dozen steps to three. Commit a md file, activate GitHub... ( 43, 18)
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47. A Microsoft Office plugin for collaborating on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all using GitHub http... ( 22, 18)
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49. If you use @GitHub Pages or @jekyllrb, would love your thoughts on our "Collections" pr... ( 10, 17)
50. Open source meets open data: With @MapBox's help, create browsable, interactive maps from geodat... ( 12, 17)