Best of GitHub Blog — June 2021

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer

   GitHub Copilot is a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. It draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions. As you type, it adapts to the way you write code to help you complete your work faster.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Introducing the new GitHub Issues

   Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   A framework for building Open Graph images

   GitHub has a new tool for automatically generating social sharing images. It uses the GitHub GraphQL API to collect data, generates some HTML from a template, and pipes it to Puppeteer to “take a screenshot” of that HTML. Open Graph is a set of standards for websites to be able to declare metadata that platforms can pick out.

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