Argues that GitHub's 'Create a merge commit' option is the best merge strategy for maintaining a clear, useful Git history with atomic commits.
Explores how tech companies expand beyond their core products, creating competing services and causing decision paralysis, framed as 'UNIX Capitalism'.
A developer describes being surprised and honored to receive an Open UK award for contributions to open source technology.
Explains why Markdown is an essential skill for developers, covering its uses, basic syntax, and benefits for productivity.
A former open-source user reflects on past entitled behavior and explains the hidden costs of user demands on project maintainers.
Explains how to use a specific folder from a GitHub repository as an npm dependency using the degit tool.
A guide on how to evaluate the accessibility (a11y) of npm packages before using them in a web project.
A step-by-step guide to renaming the default branch from 'master' to 'main' in both a local Git repository and on GitHub.
The author introduces ApplyingML.com, a site dedicated to sharing practical knowledge and interviews on applying machine learning effectively in real-world work.
A guide to adding GitHub-powered comments to a static website using the utterances library, which leverages GitHub issues for storage.
Introduces branchMover, a Shiny app/RStudio addin to help coordinate changing the default branch (e.g., from master to main) across multiple GitHub repositories.
Critique of GitHub's 'stale' bot, arguing it harms community collaboration by automatically closing inactive issues.
A roundup of DevOps news and tools, including GitHub Releases beta, npm security updates, composite actions, and container vulnerability scanning.
A guide and flow chart for using the pull request helper functions (pr_*) in the usethis R package to streamline Git/GitHub workflows.
A developer shares their experience creating and teaching a semester-long curriculum of Carpentries workshops, covering Git, Shell, and computational skills for interns.
A collection of DevOps resources covering Git/GitHub basics, OWASP Top 10, branching strategies, Azure DevOps, and key performance metrics.
A technical guide on creating GitHub issues from reproducible examples (reprex) using shortcuts for R programming.
Explains how GitHub automatically adds co-authors to commits in squashed pull requests and how to manually add them using GitHub's no-reply email format.
A guide to building a free URL shortener/tracker using Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Azure, focusing on cost control and free-tier services.
A guide to automating GitHub account backups using AWS ECS (Fargate) and S3 Glacier, including architecture and implementation details.
