github - Grant Winney

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Apr 16, 2020

Just a dash o pepper with my repo, thanks

I found an unusual account while querying GitHub for users, aaand... having nowhere else to go right now, I decided to investigate it....

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Apr 4, 2020

13 addons to power up your GitHub game

GitHub is an amazing set of tools around Git, but it's lacking in certain areas. Where it fails to impress, browser addons often pick up the slack. Here's 13 addons (plus a few honorable mentions) that will take your GitHub experience to the next level!...

github package registry levelup

Oct 5, 2019

What's the GitHub Package Registry?

Most of us host something (and some of us everything) on GitHub, especially since they host private repos for free too now. I've been eager to try the GitHub Package Registry since they announced it last May. Well, I just got access to the beta, so let's see what we can do!...

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May 21, 2019

Protecting your GitHub account and keeping your code secure

GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket just released a joint statement on a widespread ransomware attack that resulted in compromised accounts. That got me thinking, what can a person do to protect his or her code on GitHub? As it turns out, a lot......

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Feb 6, 2019

5 Markdown Tricks for GitHub

Here's a few tricks for rendering markdown in GitHub that most people wouldn't know about. Oh, and they work for new Issues, Pull Requests, and in the Wiki too!...

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Oct 29, 2018

Hosting a GitHub wiki on Ubuntu (and keeping it in sync)

I've always been a fan of wikis, but GitHub's is so poorly designed it doesn't get much love. I once wrote about cloning a wiki locally and editing it using Gollum, but now I'm taking a look at hosting it externally on DigitalOcean, using Gollum and keeping it in sync with the repo hosted on GitHub....

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Jan 16, 2017

5 Things You Can Do With a Locally Cloned GitHub Wiki

There’s a feature of every GitHub repo that in my experience doesn’t get a ton of love, and that's the wiki. In all fairness, I'm not sure how much love it deserves - it's sorely lacking in features. But did you know it's a separate repo that you can clone and manipulate locally?...

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Oct 21, 2016

What is Hacktoberfest and How Can You Participate?

There are 10 days left in October. 10 days to earn a t-shirt in the third annual Hacktoberfest, when DigitalOcean...

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

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