github - Grant Winney

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Apr 04, 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!...

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Oct 31, 2019

Hacktoberfest 2019 🎃🖱

It's the end of October and yet another Hacktoberfest. I don't even care about the prizes, which leaves me wondering, why do I even bother? I can think of a few reasons... and they're not all as altruistic as I'd like....

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Oct 05, 2019

What's this new GitHub Package Registry all about? (a short tutorial using C# and NuGet)

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 06, 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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Oct 23, 2017

Hacktoberfest 2017

Is it silly that a t-shirt and some stickers motivates thousands of developers to contribute to OSS during Hacktoberfest? Hey, the stickers are cool and the shirt's comfortable! Anyway, I'm not ashamed to admit it's worked on me for the third year in a row. :)...

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Jul 24, 2017

How to build on top of the Casper theme in Ghost

This blog runs on the Ghost platform, and I've done a bit of customization to the styling. Nothing major. I...

Experience gets you far, but finding good tools and services can get you much further. Here are some of my favorites:

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.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.