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From YouTube: The Download: GitHub Fork Improvements, Windows Terminal is Now Default, TS's Midnights and more

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It's me. Hi. I'm the problem, it's me. Christina is back with the latest developer news and open source projects -- and of course the latest Taylor Swift album -- including:

0:00 Intro
1:19 GitHub Anniversary https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/1582627933499559937
1:41 GitHub Universe https://githubuniverse.com
2:09 Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens and Discussions on the new PATs https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens-for-github/
2:49 GitHub Fork Improvements https://github.blog/2022-10-20-unboxing-fork-improvements-and-unwrapping-fork-docs/ and Discussions for feedback https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/repositories
3:19 Windows Terminal Now Default in Windows 11 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-is-now-the-default-in-windows-11/ and Windows Terminal on GitHub https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
4:27 Meta's Speech to Speech AI Translator https://about.fb.com/news/2022/10/hokkien-ai-speech-translation/
6:00 Google's Prompt to Prompt editing model https://prompt-to-prompt.github.io/ and the GitHub repo https://github.com/google/prompt-to-prompt/
7:10 **Christina's Pick of the Week**: Midnights by Taylor Swift https://digital.umusic.com/taylorswiftmidnights
8:24 GitHub Universe promo

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Some new GitHub features and improvements, a new default command line, experience in Windows, some great AI advancements from meta and Google and, of course, a new Taylor Swift, album All, That and More. On this episode of the download.

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Welcome back to another episode of the download I'm, your host Christina Warren senior developer Advocate at GitHub, and this is the show where we talk about the latest developer news and open source Projects. Please, like And subscribe, so my hoodie this week it says 1989 a la Taylor Swift, because well it's Taylor, Swift, merch and I'm wearing this in honor of her new album midnights, which will be out in a few hours from when I'm recording this. But we will be talking more about this later.

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Also last week, I had to go teleprompter free and a lot of you actually seem to really like that approach. So what I thought we could? Try is maybe something hybrid, so I'm actually reading this off of a teleprompter right now, but in a second I'm going to just have bullet points and I'll take it from there. Let me know in the comments down below what style you like, what you prefer: no promises that I'll listen but I do actually genuinely want your feedback.

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I am going to listen, just I'm, not promising that I'm going to make any changes. Okay, let's get into the news first, a little birthday anniversary shout out for GitHub is in order, so get have turned 15 this week on October 19th. So this was not the actual launch date that was in April of 2018 2008, sorry, but it was the first day that the first bit of code was committed, so the project is now almost old enough to drive. We love that now.

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If you want to celebrate GitHub, there is one place that you can do that and that is at GitHub Universe GitHub universe is going to be November, 9th and 10th. In San, Francisco we've got over 100 sessions. 120 speakers I'm, one of the hosts I, was actually in San Francisco this week to do some prep for universe and uh anwan. My co-host and I one of my co-hosts. We filmed a little bit of a teaser I.

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Think I have that link somewhere, so you're going to want to join us also go to githubuniverse.com for more information moving into some other GitHub news GitHub. We released this week in beta access to fine-grained personal access tokens. So these are basically your login credentials for various apps and what's different about these from the old personal access tokens is that the old ones were scope faced, whereas these have actually 50 different granule permissions to control what application has access to what so what work? What repository? What apis?

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They expire, they're, better tools for auditing uh check out the discussions area in this repo for some feedback, because we want your feedback, but I've got links to the blog post outlining this in the show notes down below also new this week there have been some big improvements to the forking process over on GitHub. So now you can sync your forks to out-of-date branches using the web. There are apis that will let you sync a fork with its parents. You can also name your fork when you create it.

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The repository Fork button shows which Forks you've already created with better documentation. You can even limit uh whether repo can be forked or not if you're in an organization, it's very cool stuff, so I've got links to outlining all that in the show notes down below moving on to some command line news.

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The windows terminal is now the default command line in Windows 11, which is fantastic now, if you've already chosen to use something else, as your default command line, that's not going to change, but three years after Windows terminal launched at Microsoft bill I think it was 2019. It is now in a place where it could be the default user experience, and if you haven't used Windows terminal man, you really should, because not only is it a place where you can access, you know various shells Powershell. uh You know the command prompt.

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If you've got the windows system for Linux set up whatever shell prompt you want, you can even do like the the Azure Cloud shell. There's profiles, tiling all kinds of configuration stuff. It's amazing uh and and I love that now it's the default on Windows I also want to take time to give a shout out to Kayla who's been a PM on the Windows terminal team, she's.

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Moving on to some other projects at Microsoft, but she's done a fantastic job with the community and I just want to give her a shout out and thanks for all the work that she's done. Also Windows terminal is open source and the code is on GitHub. So if you have any feedback or if we want to make contributions, we really appreciate that now I want to move into some artificial intelligence news that we've seen coming out of research of both meta and Google. But these are separate projects So, Meta, first So Meta has actually created.

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What's very cool is a speech to speech, AI translator and it was created for hakayan, which is uh primarily an oral language that is spoken in the Chinese diaspora, and what this means is that the art of translating this language has historically been difficult, because it's not written it's just a spoken language. So Meta did a lot of research to figure out.

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How can we translate this language based on getting a bunch of samples and research based on how the language works, and now they've actually created a voice to voice translation service as part of their research project? Pengen.

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Who's, one of the researchers on this project is here to give us a demo foreign.

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Do you know that our team created the first translation system to support a spoken language, they've.

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Open sourced the models for uh hokkayan and they've also open sourced uh the research papers that they've created. This is really cool, stuff uh and and I I applaud them for it, because I think that this is the sort of thing, especially when we look at languages that that could become dead right that could go away.

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This is one way a to preserve that and B to maybe even make things more accessible to people in regions who are speaking languages all the time that we don't even think about just because they are spoken, they're, not written, so that's really cool.

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The next thing that I want to talk about is something that Google research did, which is they are playing with uh something that they're calling prompt prompt and it's basically letting you use the art AI models like stable, diffusion or latent diffusion, but rather than just generating art based on a text prompt. You can actually edit the art based on a text prompt, so you can give a prompt, get the image back and then change.

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The Prompt says and it'll make an edit to the image that you had before to you know: change like what types of decorations are on a cake or make the teddy bear fluffier. This is uh obviously very very cool prompts to prompt is actually on GitHub now. This is not an officially Google supported project. It is from Google research, but they're not like officially supporting this in any professional capacity, but I think this research is really cool and I.

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Think again, it shows what the potential of AI is uh to just do really really cool stuff. I've got links to both the stuff that Google is doing with prompt to prompt, as well as the translation stuff that Facebook is doing. Okay, the company is called meta. I will probably always get that wrong. Linked In the show notes in the description down below I appreciate both of them all right and now it is time for my pick of the week. You knew what this was going to be. I knew what this was going to be.

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Taylor Swift has a brand new album coming out. It's called midnights by the time you're watching this. It is already available um at the time that I'm filming this I have not listened to any of the leaks, so I'm proud of myself there, but no I mean this is this is like the highlight of my year for sure so Taylor Swift, midnights stream, it uh buy it. It's going to be great uh if you're not into Taylor Swift Carly rage, Upson. Her album also came out uh today.

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So uh bad luck for her on that, but I will be streaming it just not as much as Taylor, so gay Carly, Rae I think the Arctic Monkeys also have a new album out, but I haven't thought about them since 2005., so Taylor Swift Midnight's pick of the week all right. If you like this episode, go ahead and give us a like on YouTube, it really does help us out. uh Let me know in the comments down below your thoughts on any of the stories we talked about.

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What do you think of some of the AI stuff? What do you think of Taylor Swift's midnights? What Frack is your favorite um and uh let me know in the comments we really do, love your interaction as I said. Please, like And, subscribe and uh subscribe to the GitHub YouTube channel for all your nerd needs. See you next time.

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Hey I'm Christina I'm.

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Anwan Simmons.

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We're actually two of your hosts for GitHub universe, that's right, which is taking place on November, 9th and 10th here in beautiful San Francisco California at the urabuena Center for the Arts right now, things are a little bit empty right, like it's it's kind of kind of slow, but in a couple of days this place is going to be popping we're going to have so many members of our community, our partners, our customers, we've got over 120 speakers 100 sessions, even though this is taking place in person. It's hybrid.

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That means that you can be here with the two of us. You want to come and meet us if you're here in person or you can also watch online and enjoy all the great content right there.

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Githubuniverse.Com so be sure to join us from our 9th and 10th. We can't wait to see you off to cats everywhere.

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Every OCTA cat you want that's so amazing.

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But mostly Mona right.