@benbalter's Twitter Archive

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  1. When you Google a problem and the first result is the GitHub issue you opened exactly six years and … Likes:3436Retweets:99
  2. Maintainers will now see "first-time contributor" badges if it's the author's first pull request to … Likes:1633Retweets:711
  3. Want to see the difference between open source licenses? @mlinksva created this great table http://choosealicense.com/appendix/… Likes:757Retweets:602
  4. We're beta testing a new GitHub feature that allows you to invite someone to manage your open source… Likes:447Retweets:129
  5. Achievement unlocked: Repurposed an old iPad as a Situation Room style LED wall clock (code https://github.com/benbalter/situation-clock… Likes:258Retweets:132
  6. If you’d like early access to the new triage or maintainer roles on @GitHub (https://github.blog/changelog/2019-05-23-triage-and-maintain-roles-beta/… Likes:202Retweets:43
  7. On working across distributed teams: Assume no malice. When in doubt, reach out. Likes:201Retweets:143
  8. Thrilled to share that today is my first day as Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub. I've worked c… Likes:192Retweets:4
  9. Organizations can now verify the website that appears on their @GitHub profile. While not much now, … Likes:126Retweets:41
  10. Lawyers on GitHub rejoice![^1] [^1]: See generally https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/. Likes:103Retweets:17
  11. Curious what you can or can't do with an open source project? We'll now explain the repo's license i… Likes:99Retweets:48
  12. Contributors can now report disruptive comments to open source maintainers for review. Excited for h… Likes:96Retweets:21
  13. Initial release of Jekyll Admin is out. Congrats to @mertkahyaoglu48 on a solid @gsoc ship. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/releases/tag/v0.1.0… Likes:90Retweets:49
  14. Open sourced the "secret sauce" @GitHub uses to generate visual diffs of geospatial data as GeoJSON … Likes:71Retweets:50
  15. Open source maintainers: if you had a robot that helped you maintain your open source community and … Likes:63Retweets:42
  16. Last year I over-engineered my home network for privacy & security using @The_Pi_Hole (tracking)… Likes:60Retweets:6
  17. GitHub now shows what open source license, if any, a project is licensed under (and the code itself … Likes:56Retweets:26
  18. Good news if you use GitHub to store GeoJSON: All GitHub Pages sites now have CORS headers set by de… Likes:55Retweets:42
  19. How we work is as important as what we work on. Sharing some team values we captured a while back,… Likes:50Retweets:12
  20. Remote work PSA: want to make sure all your distributed coworkers feel included? Normalize including… Likes:50Retweets:14
  21. GitHub Copilot, but for writing OKRs. Likes:50Retweets:2
  22. If you use @zoom_us for meetings at work, but hate constantly opening Google Calendar, you may find … Likes:48Retweets:14
  23. If you maintain an open source project on @GitHub, you can now publish docs directly from the projec… Likes:47Retweets:27
  24. Really excited to help more than a million sites potentially move to HTTPS today and make the net a … Likes:45Retweets:27
  25. Could use some help kicking the tires of my shiny new Word to Markdown converter. App: http://word-to-markdown.herokuapp.com/,… Likes:44Retweets:21
  26. The government GitHub ecosystem via @evonfriedland https://emanuelfeld.github.io/blog/2016/04/27/government-github-ecosystem.html… Likes:44Retweets:30
  27. My favorite features are those that absorb complexity on behalf of users. Awesome to see 4+ years of… Likes:44Retweets:5
  28. Just in time for #GDPR, @GitHub users can now download an archive of their repository, issue, commen… Likes:44Retweets:16
  29. In light of @katfukui's recent post, I wrote a bit about how she (among others) helped me appreciate… Likes:44Retweets:13
  30. We simplified publishing on GitHub from a dozen steps to three. Commit a md file, activate GitHub Pa… Likes:43Retweets:18
  31. It's been a while since I've written about collaboration tools and patterns, but following my "if as… Likes:43Retweets:13
  32. Hoping to make open source documentation (and other common @jekyllrb sites) easier to build and main… Likes:42Retweets:15
  33. One Git wonder (n) - An agency that open sources a project then immediately proceeds to abandon it. Likes:40Retweets:55
  34. OH: A reorg is the organizational equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" https://t.co/XJKJGa1RPx Likes:40Retweets:13
  35. No more copying and pasting. You can now set organization-wide contributing, issue/PR template, code… Likes:40Retweets:14
  36. New features specifically for the open source community: Maintainers can now minimize off-topic/outd… Likes:39Retweets:7
  37. Nearly 10 years ago, I conducted an inventory of what technologies powered federal government websit… Likes:39Retweets:12
  38. Hacking GitHub: 12 simple tools to help introduce open source to the uninitiated http://bit.ly/14KHNNr Likes:38Retweets:18
  39. Hard to believe that today marks six (6!) years at GitHub. From government to open source to communi… Likes:38Retweets:1
  40. 19 reasons why technologists don’t want to work at your government agency http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/21/why-technologists-dont-want-to-work-at-your-agency/ Likes:37Retweets:40
  41. GitHub Pages now supports relative links in Markdown files, making it a little bit easier to browse … Likes:37Retweets:19
  42. Seems even the @washingtonpost print edition isn't immune from encoding challenges... https://t.co/b1JpGFbWWT Likes:37Retweets:10
  43. Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing http://bit.ly/2i17r9r Likes:37Retweets:14
  44. Today marks my “Octoversary” - eight years to the day from when “Ben Balter is a GitHubber” first be… Likes:37Retweets:2
  45. I'm hiring a Communications and Education Manager to help engage GitHubbers and the GitHub community… Likes:37Retweets:23
  46. Wanted: A Slack flag that requires users to make a $1 donation to a charity of their choice each tim… Likes:35Retweets:6
  47. Hard to change your behavior if you don't know what to change. Org. admins can now temp. block disru… Likes:35Retweets:8
  48. Fish sticks are really having their moment. Likes:35Retweets:0
  49. Why no one uses government data: experiences optimized for the data publisher, not the data consumer… Likes:34Retweets:37
  50. Friendly reminder that open source is run by volunteer humans who donate their time, passion, and ex… Likes:34Retweets:9

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  1. Maintainers will now see "first-time contributor" badges if it's the author's first pull request to … Likes:1633Retweets:711
  2. Want to see the difference between open source licenses? @mlinksva created this great table http://choosealicense.com/appendix/… Likes:757Retweets:602
  3. On working across distributed teams: Assume no malice. When in doubt, reach out. Likes:201Retweets:143
  4. Achievement unlocked: Repurposed an old iPad as a Situation Room style LED wall clock (code https://github.com/benbalter/situation-clock… Likes:258Retweets:132
  5. We're beta testing a new GitHub feature that allows you to invite someone to manage your open source… Likes:447Retweets:129
  6. When you Google a problem and the first result is the GitHub issue you opened exactly six years and … Likes:3436Retweets:99
  7. One Git wonder (n) - An agency that open sources a project then immediately proceeds to abandon it. Likes:40Retweets:55
  8. Open sourced the "secret sauce" @GitHub uses to generate visual diffs of geospatial data as GeoJSON … Likes:71Retweets:50
  9. Initial release of Jekyll Admin is out. Congrats to @mertkahyaoglu48 on a solid @gsoc ship. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/releases/tag/v0.1.0… Likes:90Retweets:49
  10. Curious what you can or can't do with an open source project? We'll now explain the repo's license i… Likes:99Retweets:48
  11. For the first time, the @WhiteHouse is using a pull request to propose changes to official WH policy… Likes:22Retweets:47
  12. If you’d like early access to the new triage or maintainer roles on @GitHub (https://github.blog/changelog/2019-05-23-triage-and-maintain-roles-beta/… Likes:202Retweets:43
  13. Good news if you use GitHub to store GeoJSON: All GitHub Pages sites now have CORS headers set by de… Likes:55Retweets:42
  14. Open source maintainers: if you had a robot that helped you maintain your open source community and … Likes:63Retweets:42
  15. Organizations can now verify the website that appears on their @GitHub profile. While not much now, … Likes:126Retweets:41
  16. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS (Atom's now on Windows) DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS! http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/09/hello-windows.html… Likes:18Retweets:40
  17. 19 reasons why technologists don’t want to work at your government agency http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/21/why-technologists-dont-want-to-work-at-your-agency/ Likes:37Retweets:40
  18. 15 rules for communicating at @GitHub http://ben.balter.com/2014/11/06/rules-of-communicating-at-github/ Likes:21Retweets:38
  19. Why no one uses government data: experiences optimized for the data publisher, not the data consumer… Likes:34Retweets:37
  20. Shipped v1.0.0 of Word to Markdown w/ direct doc/docx conversions (inspired by @vdavez) & CLI (i… Likes:24Retweets:33
  21. In addition to collaborating on your own geospatial data, you can now contribute to @openstreetmap f… Likes:27Retweets:33
  22. Every congressional district in the country for the past 11 congresses versioned in Git and visually… Likes:31Retweets:32
  23. Is there a polite way to say "no, I don't want to jump on a quick call. Can't you just type up what … Likes:33Retweets:31
  24. MySQL is now GitHub http://mysqlrelease.com/2014/09/mysql-on-github/ Likes:8Retweets:31
  25. "Why you should care about HTTPS, even if you have nothing to hide" Spoiler alert: censorship. http://ben.balter.com/2015/01/06/https-all-the-things/ Likes:17Retweets:30
  26. The government GitHub ecosystem via @evonfriedland https://emanuelfeld.github.io/blog/2016/04/27/government-github-ecosystem.html… Likes:44Retweets:30
  27. Slides from "政府の中でオープンソースの文化を育てる方法" (How to foster open source culture in gov) #cfjsummit https://speakerdeck.com/benbalter/how-to-foster-an-open-source-culture-inside-government… Likes:31Retweets:29
  28. Really excited to help more than a million sites potentially move to HTTPS today and make the net a … Likes:45Retweets:27
  29. If you maintain an open source project on @GitHub, you can now publish docs directly from the projec… Likes:47Retweets:27
  30. Slides from my @oscon talk taking a closer look at open source licensing across GitHub's 25M project… Likes:18Retweets:26
  31. GitHub now shows what open source license, if any, a project is licensed under (and the code itself … Likes:56Retweets:26
  32. PHP is Insecure (and Other Enterprise Open-Source F.U.D.) http://bit.ly/z49Ijk Likes:11Retweets:25
  33. In an increasingly app-centric world, why is there no HTTPS indicator for ios/android apps? Likes:23Retweets:24
  34. I'm hiring a Communications and Education Manager to help engage GitHubbers and the GitHub community… Likes:37Retweets:23
  35. Still WIP, but I present GitHub Forms, a RESTful API for submitting standard HTML form data to a Git… Likes:31Retweets:21
  36. Could use some help kicking the tires of my shiny new Word to Markdown converter. App: http://word-to-markdown.herokuapp.com/,… Likes:44Retweets:21
  37. Do you use Twitter DMs (or something similar) to talk about your open source work? If so, I'd love t… Likes:27Retweets:21
  38. Contributors can now report disruptive comments to open source maintainers for review. Excited for h… Likes:96Retweets:21
  39. Democracy could use a better UX. Likes:7Retweets:20
  40. GitSpatial, a spatial API for your GitHub-hosted GeoJSON via @JCSanford http://gitspatial.com/ Likes:16Retweets:20
  41. New Ask Me Anything opened with the @18F team, the new government "startup". Got a burning question?… Likes:14Retweets:20
  42. Any WordPress developers interested in adopting WP Document Revisions? It's a solid plugin and could… Likes:4Retweets:20
  43. GitHub Pages now supports relative links in Markdown files, making it a little bit easier to browse … Likes:37Retweets:19
  44. A Microsoft Office plugin for collaborating on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all using GitHub https://www.snirtlabs.com/… Likes:22Retweets:18
  45. Hacking GitHub: 12 simple tools to help introduce open source to the uninitiated http://bit.ly/14KHNNr Likes:38Retweets:18
  46. Welcome Rep. @GerryConnolly as 1st congressman on GitHub, submitting a pull request to @whitehouse's… Likes:11Retweets:18
  47. We simplified publishing on GitHub from a dozen steps to three. Commit a md file, activate GitHub Pa… Likes:43Retweets:18
  48. .@whitehouse publishes comprehensive API Standards. Great work. Can't wait to start submitting pull requests. https://github.com… Likes:15Retweets:17
  49. Open source meets open data: With @MapBox's help, create browsable, interactive maps from geodata s… Likes:12Retweets:17
  50. If you use @GitHub Pages or @jekyllrb, would love your thoughts on our "Collections" proposal for Je… Likes:10Retweets:17