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From YouTube: GitHub Satellite India 2021 - GitHub like a boss

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Presented by Michelle Mannering, Developer Community Manager @ GitHub

GitHub continuously ships out new features and improvements to help make software development and collaboration easier for developers. In this session, Michelle Mannering from GitHub will show you some of the tips and tricks of how best you can use GitHub, and also walk you through some of the latest feature announcements. Coming out of this session, you can GitHub like a boss!

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So amazing, to have that wonderful uh presentation that you gave me uh what a great introduction, like, oh I'm, down here in a little screen, um but uh if you do check out my setup, if it doesn't happen to go full screen, um chrono nisha did mention a bit of a streamer. So there's some cool things. In the background I also loved anisha's little heart, which was so cool. So thank you anisha um for the heart um and thank you both for that fantastic introduction.

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It was it was really cool and it was so fun um hosting universe last year and I'm really excited to be back this time, uh giving you a talk for satellite on how to github like boss uh without further ado. Let's jump right in um so as quran mentioned.

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I am the hackathon queen or known as the hackathon queen, and both karen and nisha did such an amazing job of introducing me and talking about what I do so I'm going to leave most of that there, but they did say I am github, I'm on the developer relations team with quran indonesia, and we get to have so much amazing fun and do awesome talks like this.

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To awesome people like you who are all listening so thanks so much for being here, as I mentioned, my talk is called github like a boss and it's basically a whole bunch of top tips on using github making it work really well for you and how to make github amazing. Now it's already really cool. So here's how to do it now we could be here for hours talking about top tips on how to use github navigate it make it work better for you, but we've only got 20 minutes.

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So what I've done is I've broken up these top tips into four parts, so the first one is personalization, we'll talk about how you can make it hard work, a little bit better for you. Next one is collaboration: how to work really well with github for your team, whether that's a developer, focus or developer, specific team, or even how to work with non-developers as well.

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I'm going to talk about a little bit about the way you work and how to use github in the various different forms for your work and then obviously this is the open source channel. So we're going to be talking about some top tips on using github for open source. I mentioned: we've only got 20 minutes, so there's a lot more top tips in here.

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So if there's a top tip that you really want to hear make sure you put it in the discussions and I'll try and answer it at the end, all right so personalization personalization is something that people love think about. When you create a social media profile for the first time, people love to personalize it. You know, you add a photo, you might add where you're from you might add a few different things about yourself. Even when you're building lego lots of people like to personalize the way they do, this, I'm a big fan of lego.

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um So I had to throw some lego into this talk somewhere, um but, like you can customize a lego model or you can customize a social media profile. You can customize github too. Now one of the first ways you can do this or just one way you can do. This is our profile reviews. Now. This is something that is relatively new. We launched it last year and it's a really fun way for you to customize and showcase who you are and what you do on github.

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So you can add things like a little bio about yourself. You can add some of the top projects that you're working on or like our good friend, b dougie, who also works on the developer relations team. You can showcase other, really cool developers, so here's his top eight developers that he put on his bio now.

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The profile review is really a sky's. The limit kind of choose your own adventure. You can do anything, you want on your profile really, and it's really really easy to set up. So it's a way to set it up is if you head to your github profile, open up a repository with the same name as your username. When you do this, you'll get like a little pop-up here saying this is a special repository. You've now found a way to make a profile review.

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So that's how you create it, and then you can add anything you want into it. So really make it yourself. This is another really cool profile from one of our github stars and she's added this really cool banner up on top and a little bit about her. Now you might have noticed from both the doggy's profile and monica's profile that there are like animations and gifs.

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Now, because your profile readme is written completely in markdown, you can add anything you want that would be considered in markdown, so you can add gifs, you can add images, and you can add some video. You can add emojis like here or you can even add games now. This is the profile read me from one of our hovers tim and he's.

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Had this community chess tournament happening on his profile for me for a while now so he's got this all running with github actions and you open up an issue which we'll talk about a bit more in a minute, um but you open up and you can play this community chess tournament literally on his profile. So if you go to his profile, you'll be able to see this so I'll. Let you find that one.

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So if you uh have a look for tim verwell on github, you might find it now another way to customize github to work really well, for you is to start looking at and checking out notifications now notifications if you've used any kind of platform before whether it's emails or obviously, if you've been using github for a while you'll notice, really quickly that you'll get a lot of notifications.

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Every time someone comments on an issue mentions you talks about. You makes a pull request: you'll get a notification, so this can sometimes be really overwhelming and you can get a lot of notifications, so one way to personalize github makeup work better, for you is to start personalize some of these notifications.

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So just recently we released a new way for you to filter notifications, so you can now filter out notifications by organization or author. So, for example, as cronin and anisha mentioned, I work for github right, which means I'm part of the github org. Now, because I do a few other things on github, I also have a few other orgs that I'm part of now when I'm working during my workday. I don't want notifications from all these other orgs. I only want the notifications from github, so I know what I'm working on.

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So I can go through my notifications and filter out those notifications by github. Now you can get to notifications from almost anywhere on your computer or on your github profile on github. All you do is click the bell up in the top right there. um So if you can get that from your repair, your shoes from your profile now one thing to note with notifications that some people get a little bit worried like. Oh my gosh, I haven't checked out my notifications for a while.

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If I go now and check them out, there's gonna be hundreds of thousands of notifications, and I don't wanna have to deal with that. So if you haven't checked out your notifications in a while go to notifications and you'll get a pop-up, and this will help, you filter out all those notifications that you've got sitting in the backlog again. This is something new that we launched, because we thought that, oh, who knows lots of people that are not going and checking out their notifications.

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All the time, what if we give people away that if they haven't, visited their notifications for a while, we'll help you clean those up, so don't get scared about going and check out your notifications, if you haven't seen them for a while now what else plays into notifications is reminders?

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So, if you are part of a lot of organizations and you're getting a lot of reminder or sorry notifications on github, you might think. Oh, I might actually miss a really important notification. I might miss a task. I might miss a milestone. So how do I schedule a reminder? Or how do I schedule notification reminders?

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You can do that in github. You can actually connect your slack to your github and you can receive reminders in slack not only that, but you can choose which organizations you receive reminders for now. Obviously I mentioned on. I won't forget so on my github slack channel.

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I only want to receive reminder notifications on slack from github, not from all the other orgs that I'm part of so you can easily do that and all you do is go to your settings and scroll down to your scheduled reminders and you'll be able to check out your reminders there and customize that a little bit. So if you have a look here, you can check it out.

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You can customize it make it specific for each organization and really personalize it for your type of experience, so go and check that out now, speaking of personalizing, your experience, you probably would have noticed my last few slides- have all been quite bright and white and in your face and you're probably like well, this nice dark background, but the rest of it's really white and bright, so something that we launched um that our users were really asking for and something that we launched at universe last year and if you've been on social media, you probably would have seen it is our github dark mode.

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Now this has been really really exciting. People have been absolutely loving. This phone. This mode is now available on github.com and it's completely native, it's available across all our github suite of um products so go and check out dark mode. Now.

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It's really easy to check out dart mode if you're on your profile.

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You'll see a little switch button or a little toggle at the top of your profile, you'll be able to switch to dark mode. We also have a new dim mode which just got released and announced last week. So if you haven't checked out dim mode, you might want to go check that out. It's a slightly different contrast um like less less dark. So, um like different contrast, you can see there so we've now got a light mode, a dark mode and a dim mode, uh but I really like the dark mode.

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It really helps save your eyes. um You see this nice beautiful darkness here so uh to save our eyes for the rest of my presentation, we're going to be using github in dark mode.

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So, let's jump in so one of the things people love about using github is the type of collaboration you can do on github now, if you've been using github as a developer, you'll probably know about a lot about collaboration tools like uh code review and merging, and things like that now, since a lot of people know about those, I thought we'd talk about a few of the tools that we have as github to collaborate, which you might not necessarily know about.

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These also really good ways to collaborate across your entire organization and the first line, which is one of my personal favorites, is project boards. Project boards are really great for tracking the overall progress of a particular project. You can also use it for a variety of different reasons, so so this one here is our github roadmap. This is our public roadmap again, something we launched last year out to the community and you can easily see at a glance what we're releasing and when so across the top of our project.

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Boards we've got each quarter, that's uh coming up and the different features and products that we're releasing across that club. Each one has an issue, so you can click on that and go and see more happening on the project board. Now this is a really good way to collaborate with non-developers, because non-developers are often familiar with this project board type setup.

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There's lots of different ways to use project boards too, like we've, obviously used it here as a roadmap, but I've spoken to open source maintainers who use it to track different events that they've got coming up. I even use project boards myself. Personally, I have my own personal mish list project, but and it's got things like my shopping list and holidays.

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I want to go on and other tasks that I might want to track or projects I might be interested in so product boards are really up to you and you can customize it and really personalize it for you and the way that you want to use it now. Another really good way to collaborate with people is our discussions.

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You're, obviously going to be getting a first taste of discussions or first-hand taste of discussions if you're heading over to discussions during this talk or afterwards, but it's a really great way to communicate, chat collaborate and have a discussion on github. So if you've been using github as a developer for a while, you probably know that those there's those issues that you have that aren't really issues they're more like discussions. So now we want to separate discussions from issues.

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We really wanted issues to be a way for you to talk about new features, new products and bug, fixes and things like that and then have discussions as a way for you to chat and collaborate. Now you can use discussions for a variety of different things. You can see across the um the side column there. You can use them for ideas, q and a's. Again I've chatted to some project maintainers asking what they what they use discussions for.

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Some of them said they even use discussions for people within the org to share their favorite holiday or surfing destination. I was like that's really cool, um but often you can have these types of discussions and really separate them from your issues. Now, if.

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You ever notice.

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That an issue that you've opened or someone else is open, is becoming more of a discussion or a chat or collaboration instead of an issue. You can easily go and convert that issue into a discussion. So here I opened up an issue to talk about a logo I was like. I think we should get a new logo, um let's see what we're going to do, who we're going to get and it became too much of a discussion. So I quickly went in and said yeah.

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Let's convert this to a discussion um and now, as you can see, with our discussion, we can have thread of replies. We have forum style conversations and we can keep all the chat and discussion happening over here and separate it out from our issues.

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Now, speaking of separating things and the way that people work now we really wanted developers and we ourselves as um people who use github and as developers we like to work the way that we want to and at github we want to give you that same power. We want you to use github the way that you want to use it, um and so because of that we decided that we'd provide github in a number of different formats, a number of different platforms, another a number of different ways that you can use and engage with github.

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So one of those is github for mobile. This allows you to take github with you everywhere you go now. Obviously not many people are traveling at the moment, but when you do travel again, you'll be able to take your help with you everywhere in your pocket, it's available on ios and android, and you can do so much on mobile.

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You can quickly comment on an issue review bug, fixes, merge code and now, as of uh probably about a month ago or so now um you can even have discussions on mobile as well, so the latest version was released last week for mobile and even includes release, notes for github now so make sure you go check those out one of the things I love about mobile is being able to quickly do something on the fly.

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For example, um if an issue gets opened by my team and it's you know 7 pm my time on a friday, I don't want to completely block them over the weekend. I can just quickly comment on an issue and quickly unblock them without having to go to my computer fire up github and go from there. So that's why I love mobile. It's really fun another one of my personal favorites, which some people have been loving too, is github desktop.

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Now I really like github desktop it's available on windows and mac os and it's a really good way to organize your repos. So all you do is drag and drop a repo into github desktop, and then you can manage that repo from there. What github desktop does is it compares the repo that you've got on your local machine to the version in the cloud um and me being not so familiar or remembering different commands to fix github or you know, have I merged my thing yet you know. Is it?

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Am I one step behind master on my computer or main sorry? Am I behind main on my computer? Is my origin in front of my local copy github desktop manages all that for me. So I love these big blue buttons that come up like. Oh, you are one commit behind maine. Would you like to pull in the origin and make your local machine uh pair up with? What's on the cloud? So that's why I really love desktop. You know it's got all these nice, big, blue buttons and toggle and push commands.

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I don't have to really think about what I need to do next, um so I love github desktop and, as you can see here, it's available in dark mode as well. Our theme github desktop is you can go through the history of all your files and compare and view the changes, so you can see in red it's being deleted and in green they're, the added versions, so the latest version of github desktop shipped on march 10th so make sure you're up to date with github desktop to enjoy all the fancy features we have now.

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If mobile and desktop aren't your cup of teas, maybe you'll like our cli. So last year we launched the github cli and developers have been loving, our cli being able to use and seamlessly work in one window. So github cli allows you to do so many different things. You can create view and edit issues directly from the cli. You can check out prs. You can now auto merge pr's, which is a new feature for our cli that was released a few weeks ago.

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You can easily clone a repo, you can manage ssh keys and so much more cli has been really fun. Even I've been loving using it. It's available on windows, mac, os and linux. Also fun fact about github cli is it's open source and you can contribute to it as well.

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So speaking of open source, as I mentioned, we're on the open source channel, so I'm going to give you a few top tips on getting involved in open source and working in open source. So first one is getting involved in open source. Now, if you're, seeing that some people think well, you know how do I get involved? How do I find projects? You know one tip. That um is one of my top tips that was also shared yesterday during one of our satellite panels is um contributing to projects that you might already use.

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For example, I I'm currently using obs to run this presentation. Obs is an open source project. So, if you use obs.

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A really good way you can go in and jump in and keep um and start contributing to obs. You can also find really good projects to contribute to through events like hacktoberfest, what about all the other times of the year or, if you're stuck for what you're currently using or if you just want something completely new, you can go and check out trending topics on github. This is a really fun way to find out. What's currently trending on github, it's also a great way to search by type by language type, both written and spoken language.

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So if you go, I'm a python developer, I want to go and search our top projects of training on github and python and start contributing to that now, once you've found a project, you think you might be interested in have a look at their reading profile.

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If a project is really good or have a good reading now, as the name suggests read this, does it make sense? Does it excite you? Does it entice? You it'll have a really good explanation, what the project does and how it works, and if this resonates with you- and you might think you might want to contribute next thing to do- is look at the contribution guidelines again. If it's a good project, we'll have really good contribution guidelines that tell you how to contribute to the project and how to get involved in starting to contribute again.

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Does it resonate with you? Does it sound like a community? You want to be a part of if so then go and check out their issues and have a look at these labels called good first issues.

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These have been identified by maintainers as good ways to get involved in github and well sorry within the project itself, and it's identified as an issue. That's been that's relatively easy to solve and will give you a good understanding of the project that you're starting to contribute to.

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So that's pretty much brings us to time. So if there's more things that you want to learn about github um you're sitting here thinking, I actually don't know how to open up an issue, or I heard her mention actions. I want to learn more about actions. You can go and jump on the learning lab.

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This has everything you need to get started with github if you're coming to github for the first time, everything from opening an issue or right up to our advanced stuff, like working with actions or deploying github pages, so go and check out the learning lab.

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If you want more top tips like on specific things like keyboard, shortcuts or cool things that we've got coming up, go and follow github on twitter, we're putting out these really short social media videos on top tips that you might be interested in and you can go and check them out so go follow us on uh twitter again, if you want to uh engage with me or interact with me or ask me, questions, I'm pretty much available on every social media platform known to man or I'm going to be in the discussions right after this, so come and check to me in discussions.

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So without further ado, let's hear from some of the questions that are coming through github discussions at the moment. Thank you.

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So excited to be back.

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Awesome, it starts really great. You know of get up like a bus. uh You know some of some of those. Many tips are those that even many of us might not be aware of. So I'm sure that's, you know that's going to be helpful for most of you out there. So if you have any questions even right now, you can drop them over in get up discussions and we will take up. Some of them live out here for wish, but otherwise you can always hang around on uh discussions as well.

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So I know there are you know a few questions that have come in um mish. You know someone wants to know what is what is uh what are some of the things you use every day at github that you know you really like.

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Yeah, um actually all the things that I talked about in my presentation, I use pretty much every single day at github. um If you see me you mentioned, I do live streaming on twitch, so I also do live coding on twitch and, if you've ever seen me do any live coding on twitch. I use the cli desktop and um you know even code spaces and things I use all the things I talked about.

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I actually use pretty much every single day, um there's also some fancy new things coming up that I've even had had a chance to have a look at so I use all the whole github sleep pretty much every single day and it's so fun. I love desktop.

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I love using the cli, it's new and it's exciting and they're, always adding in new commands, so using the cli is really fun and project board's a really fun way to collaborate with everyone across the team. You know both of you know that we use it um as part of our devrel team as well. So yeah I get to use all the cool things on github every single day.

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So mish we know that you definitely get help like a boss, but what's the one biggest top tip on getting started with github.

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um Okay, getting started, especially if you're like new to github or you've, been maybe even using github for a while you're looking for the next big thing is whenever I'm using github or even just generally using the internet, I nearly always come across um github repos and my biggest tip is just go and style them. I just start everything on github, um for example. I recently got into um cryptocurrency mining um and I found or like the the tool that I used to mine crypto again website there scroll down, oh cool.

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I got some social media channels. Oh wow, their repo was all posted on github, so I immediately went to the repo starred, the repo, and I was like. Oh I'm, just gonna have a look around at the ready files and check out the project. um I found a bug with the um like with the software, so I opened up an issue. I even found the fix for it. So I like put it in the issue.

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So I think that's.

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My top tip is like when you're browsing and you're surfing the internet. You find really good little pieces of like programs or things that you might use have a look at where it's actually hosted most of the time, they're hosting on github, and I just go and star them. um So I can go and find them for future, but also like it's just really cool, to see that all the things that I get to use every day. I just just hosted on github, which is awesome.

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Wow, that's that's absolutely you know, let's just just go and start them and then have them, have them ready out over there. So um mish, you know, I know, I know you kind of uh interact with a lot of the developers and keep talking to them. uh Was there? Was there one tip that you know you felt that? Oh, my god, you know, even the power users are not aware of this is. Is there something like that.

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There is one- and it came out recently um in a top tip video that I did, um but I decided to do the top tip video because I showed it live on stream. So if you do ever come into my streams, you get some really cool insights on what the top tip videos are gonna be, but I showed this thing on stream and it was really um good timing.

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So most of you know, if you've been um surfing around social media, you would have seen the github skyline stuff that we announced, which is a way for you to go in and get a 3d version or 3d image of your contribution graph- and I was like this- is really cool. I can like download a 3d image and stuff, and then someone mentioned to me, like you know that you can view and host 3d files on github, so I've been like printed out lines. This is my 2020 um one here now I was like.

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On stream, I was like we did this and I was like oh, but if you want to see it and put it on github, you can store the 3d file for this on a github, and so I put the file on and you can spin it and turn it and use it and play with it. On github I was like that's really cool and my whole audience was just sitting there like. This is really awesome and I was like it gets better guys check this out. So I put my 2019 that was my 2020 graph.

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I put it against my 2019 graph, I put it on github and you can actually see the difference on github. So if you're using code review and things like that, you know that the additions are in green and deletions are in red. So if you have a 3d file on github and you add a new version of the file, you can see the changes that are made to that file in 3d and it was like it was.

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Like it was just so cool, I think that's.

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Like one of the biggest things that even power users don't necessarily know- and I think it's because like we were so ahead of the times when we released that feature so that feature was released back in 2013 and at the time not many people are getting into 3d, printing and tinkering and stuff like that, and and now it's just become so much bigger. So I think we'll see a lot more people start to use um github for their 3d version, control, which I'm really excited to see. More of that.

C

Perfect great well thanks mish for sharing everything that you shared with us and the rest of the world. Actually, this session was definitely hot hot. So if you.

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Miss it, you can always watch this. I love those emojis they're amazing.

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And folks, don't forget head on over to get up discussions as well. Misha is going to be hanging out there for the next 30 minutes, so you can post any more questions that you have on your mind, because misha is going to be there. Oh there you go, there's the link right there. um So thanks again, mish and we'll see you soon.

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So much for having me I'll see you all in.

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