Best of GitHub Blog — November 2021

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Thank you, GitHub

   I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke will be GitHub’s next CEO. I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin. My heartfelt thanks to every Hubber and every developer who makes GitHub what it is, every day.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Building the next phase of GitHub, together

   GitHub CEO Nat Geo Wojcicki is stepping down on November 15th. Wozniacki started coding in the late 1980s on a Robotron KC 87 and then on a Commodore 64. GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility. We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform or cloud.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   10 GitHub Actions resources to bookmark from the basics to CI/CD

   GitHub Actions offers powerful automation and CI/CD functionality that’s platform-native and accessible right from your repository on GitHub. Try the following steps to learn how automation on GitHub works and how it can simplify your workflows. Try building your own workflows with GitHub Actions templates, testing your actions, and monitoring your workflow with the visualization graph.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Highlights from Git 2.34

   Git has released Git 2.34 with new features and bug fixes. 29 of the 29 new features are new, including a sparse-enabled index and multi-packable bitmaps. The new features make it possible to work with large repositories with partial clones and sparse-checkout.

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Game Off 2021 theme announcement

   The theme for this year’s Game Off is… Bug! Submit a game incorporating the theme between now and December 1. After a few weeks of playing and rating the games by participants, the winners will be announced shortly thereafter. Nobody’t judging the code quality, so lots of bugs are both expected and accepted. Focus on having fun!

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   GitHub Blog·4y

   5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow

   From CI/CD to containerization management and server provisioning, DevOps gets a lot of buzz in tech today. From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows. Here are three “DevOps tools’ that can speed up your workflows and let you focus on building great software.

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