Make work visible. Write things down. Embrace collaboration. Manage like an engineer.
]]>Not sure if other models have the same issue, but something like https://amzn.to/3XDJQyf significantly increased the audio quality for my setup.
]]>And yes! I would love for nextDNS to take off. From what I can tell, it’s two (talented) people, potentially part time, which isn’t as mature as I’d like for something as critical as DNS.
]]>https://ben.balter.com/2016/07/21/removing-a-feature-is-a-feature/
]]>It al…
]]>Fun fact: Alive was the only album I had on iTunes (via Play), so I listened to it on repeat every time I flew out to SF.
]]>If not, what are your most persuasive motivations? What convinced you to prefer async? How do you show others its value?
]]>Happy to answer any questions if you're interested (DMs are open). https://twitter.com/jeffbe/status/1498764055011631104
]]>https://www.credly.com/badges/1a8b31f1-3727-4acf-a6a8-8d67af9ecb23
]]>CVEs Published In 2021: 200…
]]>Special thanks to @martinwoodward & @jhutchings0 for their prior art.
]]>Normalize named, temporary Slack channels.😎 https://twitter.com/benbalter/status/1443254861529862146
]]>[^1]: See generally https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/.
]]>There are a few more write ups around the "how and why" listed in https://ben.balter.com/2021/02/01/what-to-read-before-starting-or-interviewing-at-github/, but I suspect "Why everything should have a URL" and "15 rules of communicating" are likely the most relevant.
]]>Having built out HTTPS support for the millions of GitHub Pages sites and appreciating how tough certificate management is, I’m greatful that Caddy made my personal setup so simple.
]]>This year I re-over-engineered it using @ansible for provisioning, @docker for service management, & @caddyserver for admin over HTTPS:
https://ben.balter.com/2021/09/01/how-i-re-over-engineered-my-home-network/
]]>🧐
]]>As with general secure coding best practices of validating all inputs, never blindly trust user-supplied values. https://twitter.com/nickstatt/status/1374779666033164291
]]>"Stop randomization. Embrace async work. Ask the question instead of asking for…
]]>"Can you make the 10:30 call?" -> "Can you make the 10:30am Pacific call?"
]]>(Also notably less-creepy now that we’ve been normalized to local-only camera usage for things like FaceID.) https://twitter.com/benbalter/status/449580091681824770
]]>That said, I suspect those most likely to be tripped up would also likely navigate there by way of a search engine.
]]>.yml would be more semantic/proper if it's purely data, and not also copy/formatting as it is for GitHub's.
]]>The IoT VLAN walkthrough I linked to is what I used, but glad to answer any Qs based on my experience.
Be sure to connect to the IoT network to confirm expected behaviors.
]]>https://web.archive.org/web/20120225021854/http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ https://t.co/3ELO3vz1hE
]]>PIF — Try it 18F — Build it…
]]>We’ve made some UI improvements to make it less confrontational, but I still don’t use the “changes requested” status to block a deploy unless it’s grave. Social constraints > technical constraints.
]]>We have 14 different places to find information about $THING. I can never find anything.
14? That’s ridiculous! There should be a single source of truth.
Narrator: We now have 15 places to find information about $THING.
]]>https://ben.balter.com/2020/08/31/trust-and-safety-before-someone-gets-hurt/
]]>How do you handle GitHub notifications? What tips, tricks, or tools am I missing out on?
https://ben.balter.com/2020/08/25/how-i-manage-github-notifications/
]]>Now I wonder what other conventions I thought I observed but actually made up...
]]>@wirecutter recs have been solid & @WABADC has great resources.
]]>The District is home to 700K of the best, most energized, active, i…
]]>Here's the first part on how to set contributors up for success, well before they interact with your project.
https://ben.balter.com/2020/05/15/set-open-source-contributors-up-for-success/
]]>An amazing coworker just DM'd me with a fix before I even noticed the script I had running had failed.
]]>Help ensure the future of your work (and the work of others) by inviting an account successor today.
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-05-11-account-successors/
]]>The account successors feature is now available to all users: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-05-11-account-successors/
]]>If you'd like early access, reply or DM with your GitHub handle and I can add you.
]]>Reblame is still one of the most powerful but least known GitHub features. https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-files-in-a-repository/tracking-changes-in-a-file
]]>Wired: having a #turn-ops channel in yo…
]]>I guess that means I now need to spend the day hunched over my laptop, in the dark, while wearing a black hoodie.
So basically, I should just turn off the lights while I work now.
]]>I look forward to recieving all your embarrassing misdirected emails. 😄
]]>Sharing some team values we captured a while back, that continue to ring true today: https://t.co/luDWP2Jn9w
]]>If discussing the role of a product manager vs. engineer is your thing, check it out. https://twitter.com/HackerNewsTop10/status/1228345946217631750
]]>I wrote up a bit on how and why blocking on GitHub might diverge from what you'd expect to see on other platforms.
]]>It's far from perfect, but here's an example of how blocking a user affects comments on GitHub: https://t.co/QOzZrXSLZ8
]]>If there's a project you ❤️, consider letting the maintainer know.
Posts like these can make contributing to the open source community difficult some days... https://t.co/F2Bp3owedb
]]>Spoke w/ @sdtimes on the realities of managing an open source community. What tips do you have? How could we make it easier?
https://sdtimes.com/open-source/the-realities-of-running-an-open-source-community/
]]>It's off by default because not all maintainers would respond or want to take on the burden. In that case, we'd rather users report spam, etc to GitHub's terms of service team rather than an unmonitored inbox
]]>If contributors knew maintainers had private backchannels they weren't privy to, how do you think they'd react? Do they already know?
]]>If you're willing to share how you use them, reply here or shoot me a DM?
]]>More about our work: https://ben.balter.com/2019/07/18/a-community-of-communities-oscon-2019/
]]>Just published the recording of my #OSCON talk on GitHub's recent Community and Safety efforts:
https://ben.balter.com/2019/07/18/a-community-of-communities-oscon-2019/
]]>If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it!
]]>https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or/public/schedule/detail/76027
]]>We’re gradually adding organizations to ease load on a new authentication service. Right now a little over 25% of organizations have access to the new roles.
]]>See https://github.blog/changelog/2019-05-23-triage-and-maintain-roles-beta/ for more information. https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1131617156674850817
]]>/me adds deleting comic sans to .files….
]]>curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.black-panther-preview+json' https://api.github.com/repos/unlock-protocol/unlock/community/profile, you can see the first is being properly identified, but it appears there’s a bug with the UI treatment, which I’ll look into. Thanks for the heads up!]]>?timeline_per_page=20 to any issue/PR URL that is timing out today, while we work to get the long-term fix into production.]]>/team/ will work if that's the published path from the domain root. Otherwise team/index.md.]]>git clone won't work?]]>; nil before the end curly brace.]]>site.github.url should contain the proper scheme. https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata/blob/master/spec/repository_spec.rb#L94-L96]]>.html, you can add a .nojekyll file. https://github.com/blog/572-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages]]>reduce but map definitely exists.]]>/foo/bar/jfire/ so Jekyll can build. /cc @parkr]]>_docs of a (private) best-practices repo. Templates in site dir.]]>git blame :) https://t.co/1xKDZYKJ2V]]>.raw not .html to get the raw YAML, or skip the accept header to get pure JSON (including JSONP).]]>curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.html" https://api.github.com/repos/benbalter/benbalter.github.com/contents/_posts/2012-12-27-introducing-jekyllbot.md. You can use the GitHub CRUD API to do the same.]]>__VIEWSTATE laden government page with Mechanize or something similar?]]>permalink: /blog/ in the front matter. Add your index template there (e.g., loop and display posts).]]>http://example.com for use in documentation. h/t @holman]]>git diff —word-diff, or rendered prose diffing on http://GitHub.com?]]>Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--, party of -1. (context: http://bobby-tables.com/)]]>domains.txt file which follows https://publicsuffix.org/list/]]>{{ site.github | jsonify }} can also simplify things :)]]>_config.yml with dummy values and it will live at site.github when built locally.]]>_data directory & it will be read in as site.data: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/]]>_config.yml]]>script/build https://github.com/atom/atom#building]]>http://foo.bar is now a valid domain… https://github.com/benbalter/gman/pull/38/files#diff-e72307a1e971eb9d98732700d9601ecfR64 #headdesk]]><regulation src="http://apps.sos.wv.gov/adlaw/csr/readfile.aspx?DocId=21396&Format=PDF"></regulation> ?]]>{{ site.github }}. Need to changed to {{ site.github.owner_name }} to avoid conflict.]]>.bind("keyup")]]>_posts folder, and you'll want a post layout and post index a la https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/blob/master/lib/site_template/index.html. Very WP-like.]]>jekyll new will get you a rather vanilla template based off of https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/tree/master/lib/site_template, depending on what you're looking for]]>$ wow $ such commit $ very push
]]>git clone]]>It's called IE11.
]]>int TLD. :)]]>:keyword: without Javascript, and appends title="keyword" to images with.]]>git commit sans the -m.]]>//s all over the page.]]>gh-pages and use the pages URL. Bonus: you get CDN'd. https://github.com/blog/1482-heads-up-nosniff-header-support-coming-to-chrome-and-firefox]]>(schedule|set up|"jump on a" ) (quick|brief) (call|chat|phone).]]>properties: null should work now.]]>bundle install)]]>published: false flag?)]]>I made you this tool to turn textually-structured text into actually-structured text. https://t.co/AY ...
]]>-v on a piece of paper, add it to Evernote, and wait for the output?]]>public/tagger folder, to allow crowd-sourced tagging of non-fillable PDFs.]]>git init; git remote add upstream [url-to-repo]; git pull upsteam/foo-branch;]]>git branch -D foo; git push origin :foo (1/2)]]>(1968)
]]>&l=8 to url)]]>&l=8 to it. #boom]]>(sadly I had those key codes memorized)
]]>Parsi ...
]]>-a flag when they ls. Geez. (cc @ctbarna)]]>